Friday FOs - 12.05.2023

I have finished a couple more objects and thought I had better show them off, so here they are. 

Bottle cosy based on the flag of The Salvation Army

I finished this bottle cosy a couple of weeks ago but was a bit slack with posting. I made this one because Simeon's thought it wrong for a Christian to have a rainbow coloured bottle cosy. 

Comfort Bear No. 6 for this year. 

It is taking me a bit longer to make these. I used to make one a week but it now takes me 3 or 4 weeks to make one. 

That's all I have for now. I'm thinking about quitting blogspot and just posting on Facebook and Instagram as I seem to get more response on those forums. 

Until next time, have a good one. 

Richard. 

Friday FOs - 20.05.2022

My completion rate seems to be a bit low at the moment but I have managed to finish something this week, and it's not a Bear. Here it is. 

Drink bottle cosy with strap

One of the ladies in the art class saw mine and asked if I could make her one. It took me a couple of weeks and a little more than one ball of cotton. 

That's all I have for this week. Until next time, have a good one. 

Richard. 

Friday FOs - 23.04.2021

Well, I didn't manage to finish this week's Bear but I did manage to finish something, and here it is. 

Drink Bottle Cosy with shoulder strap

I wanted a new bottle cosy, I wanted to make it in cotton to soak up the condensation that forms on the bottle when the water is ice cold and I liked the colour of this cotton. I grew up in the sixties so this is kind of a reminder of that period of my life and a reminder that God loves us all. 

That's all I have for this week. Until next time, have a good one. 

Richard. 

Friday FOs - 27.02.2020

I started a new job yesterday and this week's finished objects are in honour of that job. Here they are.

Santa Themed Drink Bottle Cosy

I decided that a daggy old Cadbury stuby holder just wasn't good enough for my new job.

Comfort Bear No 47 for this year

This Santa Bear is my 47th Comfort Bear for this year. I plan on making a second of these but I don't know if I will be able to as I expect to be quite busy over the next few weeks.

These may be my last finished objects for this year as I will be spending those days that I am not working preparing to move house and then unpacking at the other end.

That's it from me for this week. Until next time, have a good one.

Richard.

Friday FOs - 17.04.2015

I promised to tell a little story today to tell why I didn't work on as many WIPs as I would have liked, so here goes.

We arrived at my sister's place at about 7 pm on Sunday night and I presented my brother-in-law with his drink bottle cosy. My sister then asked where hers was and when I explained that her husband had asked for one and she hadn't she claimed that she didn't realise how nice it would turn out.

On Monday morning my sister and brother-in-law took my cousin and her husband for a bit of a walk and Sue and I drove into town to do a bit of shopping and then do a bit of exploring. Since Sue doesn't walk far we kept close to the car and drove from place to place. We found a bakery and bought ourselves some lunch and then headed back to the house.

After lunch I settled down to tackle the next drink bottle cosy in the series that I have been working on.

Drink Bottle Cosy in Gold Coast Suns colours

I think I should have made the yellow strips wider, but that's not part of the story. I was almost finished this when the others arrived back and my sister then asked if this one was for her. I said she could have it if she liked but it might be better is she selected more suitable colours.

Once that cosy was finished I pulled all the yarn that I had in my bag out and asked three of them to chose colours for their own drink bottle cosy and then I sat down and proceeded to make three more cosies.

Drink Bottle Cosies for my sister, cousin and cousin's husband

My sister wanted black, orange and white as that is the colour scheme for the Easts Tigers but I didn't have any black. That's OK because she had some black I could use. My cousin wanted hers in Australian team colours (green and gold) as a souvenir of her visit to our country and her husband want blue and white as he is a Sheffield United supporter. It was great to see that my hard work was appreciated as they made use of their cosies immediately.

I kinda surprised myself, being able to make three bottle cosies in just over 4 hours. One of these days I will write out the pattern so that it is easier for me to remember and others may be able to make these.

I still needed to make this week's beanie so yesterday afternoon I got stuck in and did it.

Beanie in Navy Blue and White (Geelong Cats)

I can't make these beanies as quick as I can the bottle cosies but I can still make one in an afternoon.

It has been quite a busy week this week and, while I haven't done as much as I would have liked, I still managed to get quite a bit done. If you want to see what other people have made this week, just follow the links in the sidebar.

Richard.

Friady FOs - 10.04.2015

Hi everyone and welcome to another post where I show off what I have finished this week.

The first item I finished this week was a drink bottle cosy.

Drink Bottle Cosy in Fremantle Dockers Colours

I still have a few more AFL teams to work through before I start on the NRL teams.

The next item was a beanie.

Beanie in Essendon Bombers Colours

The next thing I finished was one that I have been working on for quite a while, a knitted scarf.

Knitted Scarf.

When I was at my sister's place at Christmas my brother-in-law indicated that he would like a drink bottle cosy for himself but he didn't indicate what colour he would like, and since we're headed back that way this weekend (a cousin is visiting from England so we thought we should take the opportunity to meet up again) I though I should do one for him. I found some variegated blue that I thought would be suitable and got it done.

Brother-in-law's Bottle Cosy

I'm still waiting to hear from the lady at church about these Trauma Teddies and will get around to finishing them when she gives them back to me so I expect to have a bunch of them to show you all at once.

That's it from me for this week. Be sure to check out the links in the sidebar to see what other people have made.

Richard.

Friday FOs - 03.04.2015

As I said on Wednesday, my schedule has been thrown a bit this week due to a death in the family. As a result of this, things that I had hoped to get finished are still waiting to be finished. I still haven't finished any Trauma Teddies this week as I'm still waiting to see what the lady that sews tags on them is doing.

I have managed to finish another Drink Bottle Cosy and a beanie so here they are.

Drink Bottle Cosy in Brisbane Lions colours

Beanie in Collingwood Magpies colours

Hope fully this coming week won't be disrupted and I will be able to get some other things finished.

For those that are interested, the links in the sidebar will enable you to see what other people have made this week.

Richard.

Friday FOs - 27.03.2015

It's the end of another week and time to show what I managed to finish this week.

I have continued with making bottle cosies in AFL team colours. This week it is the Adelaide Crows.

Adelaide Crows Drink Bottle Cosy

I also decided that I should probably do beanies to match all the drink bottle cosies that I have done so I started with the simplest one, Carlton.

Navy Blue Beanie.

I haven't finished any bears this week as I am waiting for them to come back from the lady that sews tags to them.

If you want to see what other people have made this week just click on the links in the sidebar.

Richard.

Friday FOs - 20.03.2015

OK, I have finally remembered to post pictures of my FOs. Since I forgot to do it last week you get two week's worth this week.

Here are the items that I finished last week.

Bottle Cosy in Navy Blue and Red

This one is for Melbourne Demons fans.

Bottle Cosy in Yellow and Brown

And this one is for Hawthorn fans.

Knitted Trauma Teddy #2 for 2015

Trauma Teddy #9 for 2015

And now for this week's finished objects.

Bottle Cosy in Red, White and Blue

This one is for all the Western Bulldogs fans

Bottle Cosy in Grey, White and Orange

Any Greater Western Sydney fans out there? This one's for you.

Knitted Trauma Teddy #3

I still have one more knitted teddy to make up and this week's crocheted teddy will me put together after the lady that puts the tags on has tried her little experiment.

That's it from me for this week. I will try to remember to take photos at more appropriate times (see Wednesday's post) and post in a timely manner next week. Until then, don'e forget to check out the links in the sidebar to see what other people have made.

Richard.

Friday FOs - 06.03.2015

I'm still working on bottle cosies and trauma teddies and have a couple of each to show off this week. Here they are.

Bottle Cosy in Geelong Colours

Bottle Cosy in North Melbourne Colours

I'm still working my way through the AFL teams. I should have a full set in about 5 weeks, then I will have to decide whether I want to make a second set so that I have two of each.

Knitted Trauma Teddy #1 for 2015

I received a bag of squares a few weeks ago but haven't had much opportunity to sew them up and make them look like bears. I hope to get them all done over the next few weeks.

Trauma Teddy #8 for 2015

I'm going to keep the count of the knitted teddies separate from the crocheted ones as I didn't do all the work on the knitted ones.

That's all I have for this week. Check out the links in the sidebar to see what other people have been making.

Richard.

Friday FOs - 27.02.2015

The end of another week and I have a similar set of finished objects as I had last week.

Here they are.

Drink Bottle Cosy in St Kilda colours

Drink Bottle Cosy in Collingwood Colours

Two more drink bottle cosies in AFL team colours. I still have quite a few teams to go.

Trauma Teddy #7 for 2015

I still have some knitted ones to sew up but I haven't finished them yet.

To see what other people have made this week just check out the links in the sidebar.

Richard.

Friday FOs - 20.02.2015

As I said on Wednesday, this has been quite a productive week. 

After last week's market it became clear that there were a few things that needed to be given priority. Of those things, the bottle cosies seemed to be the easiest to get started on straight away as I was sure I could complete one in a day. To that end I started work on the first one, trying to remember how many increases I did (I knew I should have written that down) I selected the colour for the Richmond Tigers AFL team.

Richmond Tigers Bottle Cosy

This one turned out a little big as I think I made too many increases, but that's OK as these will probably be used more for stubbies or can which, I believe, are slightly bigger than the water bottles we have around here.

Having made the first one a little larger than it needed to be I changed the yellow for red, which gives the colours for another AFL team (Essendon Bombers), and tried again.

Essendon Bombers Bottle Cosy

This one also turned out a little larger than it needed to be but now I know the correct number of increases.

Sue saw what I had been working on and decided that she needed a new bottle cosy as her old one had stretched to the point that is was falling off her bottles, so I picked up a ball of yarn that contained her favourite colour and got to work.

Sue's New Bottle Cosy

I still had time to work on a few other projects including this week's Trauma Teddy.

Trauma Teddy #6 for 2015

This one will be headed off to church to join all the others that are being made.

That's it for me for this week. Check the links in the sidebar to see what other people have made.

Richard.