Have an eggs-ellent Easter!

Life at Pickle-Lily has been very busy lately - lots of teaching during the week and knitting and sewing whenever I can squeeze it in! Creme egg critters are back!


Happy Easter everyone!

 And a new owl design ..

Rainbow owl

There is also time to knit a spring chicken or two before Sunday. The pattern is here.

I'm a spring chicken ...

So - as it is 4.30am Good Friday morning, I can wish you all

A Very Happy Easter from Pickle-Lily

Lavender Pekoe and Coronation Chicken

Spring chicken and friends

Now that Pickle (brother of Pickle-Lily) has returned from touring the battlefields with the camera and spent all of today downloading hundreds of photos on Facebook, I have managed to regain use of the camera and computer. So, here are Spring Chicken's cousins Lavender Pekoe and Coronation Chicken.

Lavender Pekoe

Coronation Chicken



Inside Coronation

I've since thought of the Little Red Hen and speckled hen variations that could be made! Coronation's pattern was created by knitting two rows red then white then blue in garter stitch and using the reverse side as the outside.
I did two fairs this weekend and my baby blossom bunting was much admired.

Had to take this picture with that background painted on the wall behind!

I was asked quite a few times if I sold the bunting, and during the driving between fairs the cogs in my brain were whirring away and I decided my next kits would be baby felt bunting kits. Pickle-Lily is creating my prototype (I get her to test run my creations) so watch this space!
During the week I will be fighting the children for access to the computer to visit all the other brilliant blogs on Wendy's Handmade Monday.
Have a lovely week!
Jo x

Festive Friday - I'm a Spring Chicken

'I'm a Spring Chicken, I'm yellow and small

My feathers are fluffy and they're keeping me warm.

My legs are not long so I'll never be tall

But I'm a real spring chicken and I'm having a ball!

All the teachers and mums will be cursing me now as you'll go around singing this all day! Thank-you Out of the Ark Music click to listen on line if you don't know the tune.
So inspired by the song I have created my very own spring chicken.

Spring Chicken

Cast on 30 stitches using 4mm needles and double knitting yarn.
Garter stitch 18 rows.
Cast off.

A chocolate egg can go inside - or you stuff him!

Sew up one side and across the cast on or cast off edge - whichever is tightest.

Turn right side out.

Using some of the long ends you have probably saved because you can't waste them, sew some loop at one corner for the tail.

Then sew,  using sewing thread, two googly or wobbly eyes at the other corner. Using another long end of orange yarn, sew a couple of small loops as the beak.

At this point you can either stuff the chicken and sew up the open edge, or leave it open to sit on a chocolate egg.

I have used lavender yarn to create a lavender pekin (actually a bantam) chicken and red, white and blue for coronation chicken - sorry no photos as son has the camera on his school trip to WWI battlefields. But you can let your imagination go wild with any types of chicken you'd like to create.

'Chicken, I'm a chicken, and I'm having a ball!'

Have a lovely week-end!

Jo x