Last Christmas I use left over scraps of yarn to knit Lovely Youngest a Christmas fairy for a bit of a joke. However I was rather pleased with her and decided to write up the pattern. But having nearly finished, I got distracted and forgot about it – Yes, I know, you’ve heard that before.
Fast forward to a week ago when I was nearing the end of my current knitting project and decided to start writing up the pattern.
As I headed to my pattern folder, I happened upon several half written patterns. Looking through them I noticed that Tilda the Christmas Fairy only needed a few finishing touches.
So not only here is Tilda the Christmas Fairy knitted from scraps of double knitting. (The biggest scrap was about 20g of red for the body, legs and arms. The rest much smaller scraps and the dress and berries is a different red yarn.)
And while I’m here I’ll confess the kitting one Santa sack a day I mention in my last month’s Scrap Happy has got rather abandoned. Blame the sketching.
If you like the idea of using your scraps, click on Kate or Gun(first two names in the list below) and join us on the 15th of every month – or just those months you feel like joining in. Here’s a list of both frequent and occasional Scraphappiers (?) if you want to see what everybody else is doing.
Kate, Gun, Titti, Heléne, Eva, Sue, Nanette, Lynn , Lynda,
Birthe, Turid, Susan, Cathy, Debbierose, Tracy, Jill, Claire, Jan, Karen,
Moira, Sandra, Linda, Chris, Nancy, Alys, Kerry, Claire, Jean, Johanna,
Joanne, Jon, Hayley, Dawn, Gwen, Connie, Bekki, Pauline and Sue L.
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What a lovely scrappy fairy – I would call her Holly!
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Thank you. Good thinking, but she was screaming at me to be called Tilda, so I had to do as I was told 🙂
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Can’t argue with a determined fairy!
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🙂
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Well, she’s adorable and I love her little scrunchies – very ‘on trend’ at the moment I’m told although I hadn’t realised they’d ever been ‘off trend’.
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Thank you. Are they? I didn’t know either. Mind I live in Devon – they’ll be ‘on trend’ here in about ten years time. Until then everyone will just be wearing them 😉
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Tilda is so sweet and what a wonderful person to make from scraps. Thank you for the pattern…
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Thank you. Glad you like her 🙂
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Such a cute fairy 😆
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Thank you.
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So cute!! I was thinking we need a compilation of patterns of things that use scrap and then I remembered we have it – it’s called ScrapHappy 😀 Jeepers, I need another coffee!
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Thank you.
We do, but I’d hate to have to track down every single post or try to remember what they were all about. I’d need more than coffee to do that. 🙂
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Imagine what we’d find after a bottle of wine had been consumed – it sounds like a theme for a get together 🙂
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Definitely. Shame we don’t live closer 😦
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I know!
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😦
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Tilda’s a cutie – even unfinished. The new project looks yummy too!
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Thank you. new project is nearly finished too 🙂
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Awww, what a sweetie. Great way to use up yarn scraps, too!
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Thank you 🙂
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What a happy scrap project. I’m so glad you finished the pattern. I’m sharing this link with a friend.
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Thank you. And thank you for sharing the link.
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She is super cute, and I love the berries. 🙂
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Thank you 🙂 Glad you like her.
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What a gorgeous fairy, glad to hear you are writing up your patterns, it is wonderful to make your own designs! The pink knitting above is a delight!
sometimes it is awesome to do UFOs they are so quick to finish and very satisfying! The fairy is wonderful!
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Hello. Thank you. I’m glad you like my fairy. I thought I was on top of my UFOs because there was no actually knitting hanging around. Didn’t think about UFO patterns. And yes, good to get on top of these things (which I’m not quite yet!)
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cute, very pretty 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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