Monday 22 April 2013

4KCBW Day 1: The House Cup ...Bzzz

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            KCBWDAY1 The House Cup.

 




A bit like Harry Potter, but not quite, this year’s Knitting & Crochet Blog Week is split into 4 houses. Don your favourite knitted or crocheted hat and let it guide you to which house you will be in.


The House of Bee: Bees are busy and industrious, but can flit from one interesting project to the next as bright and shiny things capture their interest.

The House of Manatee: Manatees are gentle, calm and cuddly. Relaxed and unflashy they represent the comfort and soft side of knitting and crochet.

The House of Monkey: Intelligent and with a fun loving side, Monkeys like to be challenged with every project presenting them with something new and interesting.

The House of Peacock: Peacocks take something good and make it brilliant. Buttons, embellishments and a bit of sparkle prove that perfection lies in the details – like a Peacock's Tail.

So choose your house. You may be a combination of more than one of these noble beasts, but think about which house best embodies your qualities and declare your place. You can use one of the graphics above to display your house crest, if you like (though this is totally optional).

You could of course decide that you are so unlike any of these creatures in your style of crafting that you set up a rival faction and adopt your own house, though whether you get invited to the end of term disco remains to be seen, you rebel.





Well, really I guess out of that choice, I am a Bee with maybe the tiniest hint of Peacock: I do loves me a bit of sparkle. Although that may be rather more of my jackdaw traits coming through ....

But I am a Bee mainly because I have something doing nearly 99% of the time. And 99% of that time it's knitting, the 1% is crochet - I tend to use crochet as my fallback, when knitterly mojo has legged it. And then - in spite of my promises to the contrary - I find that deadlines (usually family birthdays) pop up on such a regular basis that I am forced, forced, I tell you, into actually planning things and going straight from one item to the next without so much as a breath of fresh air and relaxation in between. I am quite challenged by the idea of spontaneity, natch.

In fact, most of my FOs have been for other people; I have recently made huge strides in selfishness by completing 4 items for myself, and they were 'proper' projects ie. not just hairbands, as well:


Spring Green Lace Cardigan

Slice of Berries (with Sparkle!)

Fitzroy

Sienna

And there are plans for more - especially since an American friend is just in the process of enabling me with Knitpicks yarn .... oh yes, you can see my grin all the way over there. It's quite dazzling, isn't it ?

I really have chuntered on, and wandered off topic a bit, when instead I should be buzzing over that Glam Shells Shawl I ripped back a little while ago. But in my coffee break, I shall be putting '4KCBWDay1' into Google to find the other House Cup posts for today - and read as many as I can. Join me !





22 comments:

  1. Oh your lacework is to envy! I am in the House of Bee also, many WIPs going, and a long line of favorites and queued patterns, I am thinking imposed monogamy is in order before I cast on another thing!

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  2. Your Fo's "just for yourself" are amazing ! Now I want to knit all of them !

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  3. Everything is beautiful! I just love the lace.

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  4. Bravo, Housemate! Your FOs clearly demonstrate that bees have the most fun ;)

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  5. Loving your lacework, fellow housemate! Very much enjoying the humour too.

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  6. I'm a bee, too. Always have multiple projects of many kinds in progress...and in my head lots that I want to start.

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  8. Sorry, I had a major mistake in my comment. Now to say again, House of Bee here too! I think we take the majority in the crafting world. Still loving your shawl, I wore my Citron, similar shape, all weekend. I just love the hug these shapes give you.

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  9. Oooh, I managed to miss the Slice of Berries - love, love, love that!!!!! And of course it haz sparklez. :)

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  10. ooh I do love the pretty green cardigan, it's yummy!!! Have a knitty Monday xx

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  11. Gorgeous projects, especially the green lace cardigan and shawl. I love how you Bees are always planning for your next projects!

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  12. Gorgeous knitting projects! I love your shawl :)

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  13. I love your cardigans. I really wish I could force myself to make some clothing but I've not got around to it yet (too many other projects as I'm a bee too!)

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  14. That shawl is amazing. Beautiful. Have to be a bit of a peacock in you to make that :)

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  15. Ah yes I'm always thinking about the next project too, I often fall asleep thinking about what I'm going to make next even if I've just cast something on!

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  16. The green cardigan and the shawl are both STUNNING.

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  17. Thanks for stopping by my blog today! I love, love, love the Spring green cardigan!

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  18. Your projects are BEE-utiful! (what a terrrrible pun!) ...so wait then, are you a Beaded Bee? :)

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  19. those are some amazing finished objects!

    its so annoying when deadline knitting gets in the way of fun knitting. (and isn't any other project more fun when there's a deadline)

    beks
    :)

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  20. Beautiful projects...I especially like your Slice of Berries :)

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  21. LOVE the slice of berries shawl.
    Thanks for your comment on my blog (trundlebug.co.uk/blog) yesterday.

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