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A bit of a divergence from my usual knitting topic but I've been drawing a bit recently. I'm a sucker for a nice notebook. I love the Leuchtturm 1917  notebooks. I have an A5 one for my everyday notebook/bullet journal but I recently bought one of the smaller pocket ones. I'm planning on using it to write all my knitting notes in and put some sketches in. The other thing that I've bought recently is the most amazing brush pens. The Kuretake Zip Clean Color Real brush pens . I bought mine from Cult Pens , who have always been easy to deal with. The pens are Japanese and from a lot of shops come directly from Japan. I just bought a selection of pens but I've put another order in for more, as I love them so much. The pens have an actual brush tip to them. You can get a really fine line or thick one - depending on the pressure you use. They blend with one another. The really good thing is they are water soluble, so you can get some really nice effects with very little e

Conception to.... acquisition to... creation. He keeps taking his hat off. I've had a word with him about it. I especially love his tail The pattern is Bo Rabbit  by Susan Hickson. My ravelry project page for Bo  and more details.

At my LYS, A Good Yarn , there was the New Launch sale last week (I bought too much and daren't blog about it). There were lots of lovely yarns in stock. I wanted to use the Bergeré de France, Coton Fifty  and the shop has had Mary Jane's Tearoom patterns in stock. They have been hugely popular in the shop, probably in part to the wonderful samples that have been knitted up. I always have a penchant for stranded colourwork and Bo Rabbit appealed to me the most. So I ended up sketching a Bo Rabbit to try out a different colour combination. Here's my "Bo in Blue": It would have been better if I'd used my sketchbook but it helped me make a decision. So here's the yarn I bought to make him. However, the side effect of the sketch was, I really wanted to draw again. Some of my friends had been pinning some " Zentangle " designs that caught my eye.  So a fair amount of research and many hours later. Here are the results. Luckily, I happened to have th