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It’s been three years now. It alternates between feeling like it’s been forever, to feeling like it was only yesterday. Both are horrible, empty feelings. I miss you. … Thank you for being so wonderful. So strong, so brave. Thank you for being an incredible Nain, full of wisdom and love. Thank you for everything you showed me, taught me, instilled in me. Thank you for being so warm, so happy, always ready with a hug. Thank you for everything you did, for every one of us. I love you x
As usual, it’s been lovely but hectic here, trying to get everything done last minute, even though I vow I will be more organised every year! I don’t know about you, but I end up so busy trying to make everything perfect for everyone else, that it sometimes feels that none of it is for me at all (apart from the stressing/cooking/washing up etc)! To rectify this, on Boxing Day while everyone else was engrossed in a film, I sneaked off to have a little peace and quiet, and to use some of my lovely new fabric – for me! Now usually when I’m sewing, it’s for the shop, so it felt quite indulgent to be making things for myself! And here they are, my pretty new pillowcases, cheering up my bed – and I love them These are a couple of my latest large size knitting rolls available in my Etsy shop.
I used to make small crayon rolls a long time ago – they started out after wanting to be able to keep all my toddler’s crayons together when we went out, rather than have to scrabble round the bottom of my bag for each one! A friend had seen one of those old crayon rolls, and asked if I could make her some custom ones to fit irregular sized colouring pencils that were to be given as Christmas gifts. I was really happy with how they turned out, as was she – I hope the recipients like them too
Now I’m just waiting for some more ‘Duck and Hen’ fabric for my latest commission, and that’s my lot for now. Hey, Santa… There will be some large knitting rolls made up from the new fabrics, and going into my Etsy shop, probably along with some matching project bags. I’m also working on getting DPN rolls made aswell, to give a greater variety of sizes. If you would like me to make you anything out of these gorgeous new fabrics, please feel free to contact me
Jules, if you send me your address, through the ‘Contact’ tab, I’ll get it posted off to you. Thank you all for entering
It was time to tackle curtain making again! I have made curtains in the past, but never a lined pair, and I had the added headache of having decided that thermal/blackout lining would be best to use – I had a couple of problems with this when I made the blinds – when you stitch through blackout fabric, you can see pinpricks of light coming through, not great when you’re a bit of a perfectionist! I had a look at a few tutorials online, but these only served to confuse me more, so in the end I just went with the way I found easiest, probably not the professional way but I’m really pleased with how they turned out! The grey pair in the lounge were made from scratch, using up a large amount of fabric I’d been given a while ago, and the flowery bedroom pair were originally a pair of handmade curtains I’d found in a charity shop, which I completely unpicked and re-did, including having to add a wide stripe of fabric at the bottom, to give them the length I wanted. In making these, I learned how to blind hem on my machine, not something I’ve done before, so new curtains, and skills – bonus Just one pair to go now, for the small bedroom, then we’re all set. In the run up to Christmas we all like a bargain, so I decided to have a sale of the remaining monkeys (and a couple of cats)! (All photos can be clicked on to get a better look). Each sock creature is now only £10 – including p&p (within the UK) I started the sale on my FB page last night, and five have already gone – these are the ones that are still available. The monkeys are between 17 and 19 inches tall, with the majority of them being the 17″ size. *All my sock creatures are filled with high quality polyester fibre fill which complies with British Standards BS5852 and BS1425* If you would like one you can leave me a comment, or email me by using the ‘Contact’ tab at the top of the blog, with an email address and I will send you an invoice through Paypal. Edit: There are now only 5 remaining monkeys in the sale.
I’d not made such a detailed blanket before – each square had 7 rounds, there were 15 colours in all, and I wasn’t looking forward to weaving the ends in! I decided to crochet batches of 10 squares, then weave the ends in as I went, which seemed like a very slow process but had to be better than spending 5 days at the end sewing them all in – I ended up with over 200g of leftover ends! Halfway through the blanket I needed to order more of a couple of colours I’d run out of, and while waiting for them to be delivered I played about with making some bunting. It has 6 triangles, with pretty pointy edging on each, and although the photo of it up at the window hasn’t captured the colours properly, it is the same colours as the blanket. I think if I had a little girl there would be lots of this bunting about her room, but as I don’t, I’m offering this as a giveaway Just comment if you’d like it! (There are no rules such as RT or ‘Share’ but if you’d like to, that would be great This giveaway is now closed. Thanks to all who entered I have recently set up my shop on Etsy, as well as selling directly from my site, and through my Facebook page. I’ve sold a couple of things up to now – the crochet/knitting rolls I make have been quite popular for a while on FB, and were also the first two sales I made on Etsy. I’ve also got some pyrography, and of course, the sock creatures! Hope you’ll have a browse around |
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