So here he is: I’m delighted with him, I confess, and not a little surprised. I had had it in mind to make the tiny daughter an owl (note to self: must stop calling a wol, or she’ll learn the mangled English that Quercus and I use every day as her only form of language…) for a little while, and then he sort of appeared over last weekend. It gives me hope for future projects – I love making things for the witchling and for Quercus, and I seem to be getting a bit better at it, which is nice. Recent months have seen Quercus getting a knitted scarf, the witchling two pairs of legwarmers, two hats (a vest is on my needles now, but, being me, I have first to get through the inevitable cast-on-realise-too-small/large-unpick-start-again-x-4 bit – if only there were a way to sidetrack whichever god it is that is so vindictive about my starting knitting things), various felted objects, a blanket and something else which escapes me for now. Oh yes – I knitted Quercus a hat with the most beautiful wool from Felt Studio UK, somehow managing to do so without a pattern and with only a modicum of swearing. Well, OK, maybe slightly more than a modicum, but still… Next up: more hats I think, including a very nice one which looks a bit like a beehive (and is much more attractive than that makes it sound), that knitted vest (once the necessary casting-on palaver has been overcome, of course), and the rest of the felted alphabet (and do look at the comments on the previous post for Blue Witch‘s thoughts on lower/upper-case letters; I’d never thought of it, so am now thinking about starting a new set of lower-case ones and keeping the upper- for later). I’d also really like to knit some wrist-warmer thingies; does anyone know of a good, fairly idiot-proof pattern? I love knitting on double-pointed needles, and would like to do something with a thumb-hole, but I’m too dense to work it out on my own without going very, very cross-eyed indeed.