Home Sweet Home

Now, here’s a thing. Here we are, in Portugal trying to find a place where we can live and make a simple life for ourselves. It’s been a long job, we’ve been looking for 4 years here and meanwhile we are living in a little old rented house with just some of the basics.
Understandably we have begun to fantasize about having a nice warm cosy home, with hot water and stuff, especially since the winter is here now.

So when a friend showed me the photos of a cute little house, made by her daughter years ago, when she was small, I immediately wanted to move in!

It’s a house boat and those mice seem to have everything! I am jealous!

It did make me think though, that all the making we are doing as our Monkey and Sofia ‘empire’ develops is really a smoke screen, to help take our minds off our lack of ‘home’ I’m going to make a mouse-boat next!

the Monkey and Sofia knitting book

This is what it looks like!

It finally exists, the Monkey and Sofia Knitting Book is now back from the printers and it looks fab. All the work on checking and re-checking all those knitting patterns finally paid off and they are all there in the pages of this little book.
The idea for this was that having spent 18 months inventing knitting patterns for knitted toys, well, not just any knitted toys, THE sweetest knitted toys in the world, the time had come to stop knitting them and let everyone else have a go.
So, the book has all the instructions for knitting Monkey, Sofia, The Mice ,The Rabbits, plus a cosy cute pair of socks and how to make the cat in your life it's very own knitted fish! Who can live without it?

email us to get a copy: monkeyandsofia@yahoo.co.uk

All these photos are of the patterns in the book. Most are easy, and great for new knitters, with plenty of opportunities for interpretation by more experienced knitters.

Best of all these patterns are fabulous for fundraising projects.

Supporters of Cat Protection are already knitting!

Check the entry further up the the blog