Hi, Judy from Which Piececraft. Welcome to my yarn adventures this week. My update on what I have made and a bit of yarn chat. So let's get started. It's Sunday afternoon here. It is extremely hot outside. We're in the current throws of a heat wave which is early for us in October but that's how it goes. So I did a bit of gardening earlier this morning but now it's way too hot to go outside. What have I been making? Well my knitting projects I became very frustrated within the early part start of this week and I've put them to one side and I'm leaving them for a while. I'm not even sure I will ever complete the MCAL with Stephen West. I was watching someone's video. Can't remember who that said if you don't enjoy knitting the project and it's not something you think you will wear or use or sell afterwards then what is the point? Because for me especially knitting and crocheting is a way of relaxing, unwinding, after a stressful day at work. So all the knitting put aside I concentrated on crocheting and making things for my market stall in November which is a big fundraiser for Emma's quest and what I could sell and what would sell especially with it being hot. So I made some more octaves. These two. I made angry octaves and I made this sleepy little keying alto. I'm not very good with faces and the reason it's sleepy is I've got to put eyes in before I closed it all up and did it. So this is sleepy and I found this keying in my stash from when I used to make more of them. So I thought this would be a cute back-back baby and in this rainbow yarn. I've been using scrap yarn. I think it's a way of using up my scraps. This one became angry octo. One because he's very red in the face and when I did the face it just looked angry. So a couple more octaves. Remember all the tutorials, patterns, channels I talk about will be in the description below. This is the Dabbling Hooks tutorial. I love it. It's so easy and you can make it different sizes and the faces and the names are just something I do but that may have to come to an end because I'm running out of ideas. So that was my little late lunchtime working on a work finished objects. Then I decided with it being so hot and living near the beach and looking at something online. I thought I'd make a toddler beach con show. Now I have a lot of this cotton leftover from a project. It's premier cotton. It's a cotton acrylic blend and I thought I would try it in a poncho. So of course I made my favorite poncho. The Queen's Poncho by Baguade and that's it there. I mean it's reasonably lightweight. It's quite because of the pattern. It's quite airy and it'd be good for the beach being cotton and acrylic just for a little toddler to slip over if it's getting a bit chilly. Now I normally decorate the front with some sort of blingy thing and I can't make up my mind with this one. So I'd appreciate some feedback as to what you think. I might have to rest it there. So I have this little yellow flower that can go there but I'm concerned that that blends in. An option too is I have this green button I can put there. So what do you think? The green button or before I drop it, the yellow flower. I'd really like to get a brighter green like a flower. I may check out my craft store but let me know what you think because the idea is not to buy stuff to use the stuff I have. Yellow flower or green button on my Queen's Poncho. The other question I have for you is I have this much yarn left over and I was thinking should I make a little scrunchy in that yarn to go with it as a bonus thing to go with the poncho. What do you think? Would a little scrunchy go well with that in the leftover cotton? So yeah let me know in the comments below this video. I really appreciate your feedback. It does help me take a direction to finish a project. Of course the Queen's Poncho is the famous Baguadee tutorial that I have used before. The next thing is I had bought this last year and I never made a lovey for it and cleaning up. I decided I'd make a lovey for this Christmas koala. So I made this little lovey. It doesn't take long to whip up and I'm going to put this on my market store to sell. If it doesn't sell then I'll put it in the Etsy shop because I've sold the koalas in there before or the made at shop. But yes this is Spotlights 5050 which means it's 50% acrylic 50% wool. It was in my stash. It's like two thirds of a wall. I don't normally use wool but it was the right colour red and this is the of course Zelda RJ3 Zs tutorial. This is the lovey that I really like to make and I put the border myself. There's just an acrylic white to give it a bit of difference. What do you think to my koalas? It's pretty cute. It's really soft and so is this considering it's got wool and it's really soft too. Anyway that was my finished project number three. Now of course with the markets I continually because I have to restock I've been making tea towel toppers and I've made three this way. These two and this one. I try and vary up the colours and try and do different things. One to keep me interested in two so that they'll sell. So of course when I can't think of what else to do I do a tea towel toppers especially when I'm sitting watching television or it's my lunch hour at work and I think I can just do some of that without thinking. So then I finished things for my market that's coming up in November. I met up with Doring Emma's mum we went for iced tea because it was too hot for coffee. Had a bit of a talk about different things we can do. I can do it the market. I know she really appreciates the effort I put into it. I don't expect Emma and Doring to come down. It will be incredibly warm that day and that's not good for Emma but we will see but I'm sure thing will be there to give me a hand to set up with everything. So I have other projects on the go. Today being Sunday I'm not cooking today which is unusual. Reeves is cooking. You decide you got up early this morning and you put something in the slow cooker and that's what we'll be having for dinner and I've done some housework so this afternoon I'm going to sit and relax and finish some objects I've got on the go. I've got well of course my luck of the draw to catch up on. I make some more octaves. I've got one octaves. It just needs these tentacles put on and yeah some other little things to finish off because today is going to be a finishing day as we approach the end of October. Can you believe the year has just flown by. So until next time stay safe, stay well and remember you can get a lovely W for Christmas too. Bye for now.