I Love Cables Headband

After 2020 being a year of limbo, and I'm sure I'm not the only one saying this, I wanted 2021 to be different, so I decided that I should get back to creating and selling a bunch of knitting patterns.

It's been a few years since I've created new items for sale: these past few years I have kept knitting, but the items I've knitted were all gifts (to myself as well as to others). The I Love Cables Headband is my first finished product of 2021 and I published the knitting pattern on the usual suspects: Etsy and Ravelry. 

I am particularly proud of my I Love Cables Headband as I designed the cables myself (not without the usual bit of swearing, frogging and re-knitting), those cables are as close as I could manage to make them look like hearts, because you can never have too many heart shaped things coming up to Valentine's Day,  which was the time when I was working on it.

I re-used a little of the same pattern when designing my new cowl, (which I was hoping to have ready before Valentine's Day too but I think I may have overestimated my speed and the amount of time I had available to me 😅), this is still a work in progress but I can already say it's even better than the I Love Cables Headband, up up and away!

5 Years Later:

 I should be ashamed of myself, a whole 5 years without a single blog post 😳.

A lot has happened in that time, a few life changes, all good, but these have kept me busy, so now I've adapted to those changes I'm back, hoping I can keep up with Sophie's Knit Stuff blog. 

During the last 5 years,  I've studied hard and passed my Accounting Technician course, got a part-time job, found love 😍, moved on from the part-time job to a full-time job, which is my excuse for neglecting this blog, as I have less time for knitting and other crafts, let alone for blogging!

Well except for today: I am home since I have to wait for my daughter's (hopefully negative) Covid test result😷. And since I'm stuck at home, I'm catching up on:

1. My long neglected blog 🙋  Sophie's Knit Stuff;

2. Finishing my sewing machine cover; 

My Brand New Sewing Machine Cover

I've used a pattern from Sew Can She, it's normally for a kitchen mixer, but the size fits an average size sewing machine, plus it's got pockets, very handy for sewing notions!

During last year I've done quite a bit of sewing as I wanted to make reusable fabric face masks, I also made some cute oven mitts and even though my sewing skills are not the best (don't look too closely at my binding strips 😅), I think I've finally got rid of the fear of the sewing machine 😂.

3. Finishing up my latest knitting pattern: 

Already all knitted up but now I need to work on the less fun parts of designing knitting patterns, i.e. add pictures, proofread and translate the pattern in French, find the correct keywords in order to get the views (and hopefully the sales 💰). I promise I will post an update here when it's all done.

That's all for now folks! I need to keep a little to talk about next time so watch this space for more updates, you can all still follow me on my Facebook Page, Instagram, Twitter, and of course Etsy.