Forgive me readers for I have sinned. It has been two weeks since my blog post…

I’m kinda convinced life is out to get me – just when I thought the dental trauma was sorted, I caught a heavy cold and have been knocked for six. All I’ve done is sleep, and drag myself into work for the essential bits. I am no hero when I have a cold – I really should be a man I’m such a wimp!

“Stop whining and tell us knitting news – everybody has a cold right now!”, Yell my readers.

OK. OK. I’ll do my best to make up for my delinquent blogging…

Emily – life was having a go at me via Emily too, you remember?  Or maybe I was just being careless and making silly mistakes??? 🙄

Well, I pressed on with dogged determination and what do you know? Things are looking up!

Emily is finished. 🙂

It took me quite a while to get the neck right. The edging is sewn on rather than knitted on.

I found that laying it out on the dining room table was the only way to get the thing pinned and sewn neatly.

Ben wandered by when I was mid “sew up” and asked, “have you knitted a loo seat?”
I had to see the funny side – and his point!! (the pins might smart a little!)

One thing that niggles me about the neck is that however I tried to sew it it does stick out a little . No one would notice except me I guess.

Once the neck was done it was quite simple to sew the rest of the seams, with Mewsley’s expert supervision…

I think if I made Emily again I would make her a little longer too. I find myself tugging her down under my belt. That’s another thing – in the Kim Hargreave pictures it’s shown with a belt – I think Emily cries out for a belt (I’m so easily influenced by the publicity photos aren’t I ?)

So here it is the finished Emily!!