I needed a warm toque for my swims with the Popsicles and I had just the yarn for it. When we were in Ireland I purchased four skeins of wool in Donegal that I set aside for “something”. I made myself a simple hat and then made a second one for donation.

I still have some of the blue wool left and it, along with some of the other colours, will go into an art piece at some point. I have the pattern, just not the time.

I use my fabric scraps to make dog pillows for donation to the SPCA. The tiniest scraps go into a pillowcase and when it is full I sew it up and drop it off at their facility. I was at the thrift store one day looking for pillowcases and saw two balls of yarn that I couldn’t resist.

When we were last heading to Texada I remembered that I had a new chair over there and thought I should take some knitting along, just to see how the chair worked for that craft. It was awesome and I finished the scarf in just two short days. It is just garter stitch but the yarn gives it a nice texture.

This will be part of the donation I make on Mum’s birthday.

In an attempt to use up the last of my baby yarn I found an easy, and often used, knitting pattern. I was really happy with how it turned out and it just may stay in my own tickle trunk.

I still had a bit of a few colours left so I made a smaller version that I’ll donate to Ken’s cradles.

I still have more baby yarn left – but only the green and the multi-coloured versions. I might have enough for a small sweater but a friend borrowed my pattern book so I’ll have to wait until she gives it back.

I had three large skeins of this orange yarn and whenever I saw it in my bin I couldn’t for the life of me think of what I could do with it. I also had a skein of white so I decided to jump right in with a pattern I’ve made at least a couple of times before.

This will be a donation and I hope it brings some sunshine to somebody’s day.