Some FOs, but mainly a random ramble about things that match

I LOVE my new Joji bags. I love the shape, I love the way the small one squishes down in my bag, I love the colour. I love the colour so much I matched my nail polish to it this week:

I finished a couple of knitting things this week. A French Macaroon for a one year old, going off to charity:

I used left overs, so the front and back don't match, but I think it's cute anyway.

I also finished a Pressed Flowers hat.

The Richmond knitters are doing a pressed flowers KAL for Bendigo this year, so I knit this as a warm up.

i didn't actually buy the hat pattern (there were some strange gauge things going on) and I needed one less repeat, so I had to wing the crown decreases. I'm pretty happy with how they came out.

Next I'm going to knit the cardigan, and after that (if I am not completely sick of mosaic knitting) I might knit the shawl too. If I do that, I'll dye up some yarn in a bright pink - see how close I can get it to the colour of my bag.

I have (perhaps precipitously) made the buttons for the cardigan already.

I don't know if I will use the round ones, the square ones or the little hexagonal ones:

I've also made forms hair clips, a brooch, some earrings and stitch markers. I think by now we all know how much I love some matchy matchy!

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What I made, by Sharon

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