Mrs E
United Kingdom
I love a challenge. I learned to knit because my son wanted a sack boy. A knitted character from a video game and you couldn't find them anywhere at that time. It's scary, but my son liked it. Since then I've set myself new challenges. A teacher who had taught both my sons was leaving so I knit her a mini version of the school mascot. Since then all teachers who teach my boys get one. This prompted the headmistress to ask me to make four 18inch ones. Two boys, two girls, two pink, two brown, to represent all the children in the school. At the last count 42 different languages are spoken there. Everything I make is purely for charity, either directly like the mascots or twiddle mitts for dementia sufferers, or all profit goes to charity. I let people decide which one they would like to donate to. Save the Children, Alzheimers Research or Motor Neurone Disease Association. That is why I call my little enterprise My Jolly Eleemosynary Knitted Range.
See more- Knitting12 Skills
Knitting: 5 to 10 years
12 Skills
- Cast on & cast off
- Knit and purl stitches
- Simple increase & decrease
- Picking up stitches
- Fair Isle
- Lace knitting
- Knitting in the round
- Ribbed
- Garter
- Stocking
- Slipped stitches
- Cables
- Crochet20 Skills
Crochet: Over 20 years
20 Skills
- Chain
- Slip stitch
- Double crochet
- Triple/Treble Crochet
- Tunisian/Afghan crochet
- Increase & decrease
- Half treble crochet
- Front/Back post stitch
- Triple treble crochet
- Lace Crochet
- Double treble crochet
- Working in the round
- Filet crochet
- Lover's Knot/Solomon
- Beading
- Cro-hook
- Hairpin crochet
- Freeform
- Broomstick crochet
- Cro-tatting
