New design tuesday - a riot of colour

Some days pass with a flurry of ideas, sometimes I have the yarn here ready (less times than I wish though...I'm not really making any inroads into the stash...) but often I have to order it in...and wait until it arrives (never very long...it's always here within the week, even from the UK and US)

This week I started a garment with some stash yarn, knowing that I would need more and luckily the extra arrived before I had finished what I had on hand, so I had no down time while waiting for my other yarn to arrive (and I'm glad that it took a bit longer than expected because now that it is here I don't want to blog, or garden or edit, cook or walk. I just want to knit)

The tunic dress is another useful item for 2-10 year olds, easy to pop on over leggings and a polyprop or skivvy, the pocket gives it a wee edge and can be adorned with intarsia, bobbles or buttons as you see fit.

As you can see it is not quite finished, so when I have finished blogging, and had a walk, I will take it up again and finish it.

I have promised myself that when I have finished the tunic dress and written the pattern up nicely and asked for test knitters, when I have reviewed the cherub tech edit and when I have come up with a nice lace insert pattern for another wee frippery in the wings, then and only then will I be allowed to start working with this yummy Poems sock yarn from Wisdom yarns. I love it, the yarn is similar to Noro kureyon sock, but with longer colour changes and the colourways do not jar with my sensibilities the way Noro yarns sometimes do ( I have never been one to be completely "at one" with the Noro)

I've already tested some ideas using silk garden sock, a simple tank top in a simple lacey stripe, somewhat Missoni inspired and structurally basic so that the yarn is the star. I just can't wait to get going!!

Free Friday - have you knitted an aviatrix??

And the winner is number 3 - Curlyde, I'll gift the pattern on Rav.

This week's free pattern is the sweet Nikau hoodie and pants, this pattern has recently been re-written (so if you have purchased a copy in the past and haven't got the update let me know)

So back to that Aviatrix, have you knitted one? If you haven't, you really should. I get asked so often why I have posted this pattern for free, and the reason is always the same - because it is too much fun to charge for!

There are always people who don't see the attraction, yes it is pretty boring when flat, but put it on a child and bam! instant cute.

So have you? tell me about it, will you knit one? or won't you? tell me why ( it's the short rows isn't it...believe me, they are easy once you get the hang of them)

Housekeeping:

- please include your Ravelry name or your email address (can space it out to avoid spambots)
- I will gift the pattern via Ravelry, if you do not belong to Rav I will email the .pdf to you
- winner (s) are drawn sometime on Friday, this means "Friday afternoon/evening New Zealand time"
- the winner (s) are chosen by random number generator (I use this one)
- you may enter even if you have won before