One little lavender heart

February make(s)

One little lavender heart for my February make.  I don't usually make them this small but I was kind of in a hurry.

Annie, does this count as a make?!  Now that two weeks of half-term is upon us and with the weather being most unkind there will no doubt be lots of this sort of making going on.

At least there are lots of lovely flowers to brighten those dreary days.

Happy days. :)

Simple pleasures

Flower power

Have a crafty weekend :)

Monthly Make

It took me a while to get going but I'm really happy to be following Annie's Monthly Make group.  I have made some fabric coasters as my current ones, made a while ago, are beginning to look a little worse for wear.  I love making them, they are quick and easy and are a great use for scraps.

This is my favourite one.  The middle is a teeny tiny cross-stitch which was part of a serviette given to me by my lovely mother-in-law, Simone.  I think it was stitched by one of her aunts.  The serviette was so badly stained and unusable but I really wanted to rescue the gorgeous stitching.  The blue floral fabric came from a skip in North London and the stripes are an old, stained, Habitat dishcloth.

 Antique French toile de jouy, a Japanese motif fabric and an old pillowcase.

 



Have a great creative week. :)

Emerging from the depths of winter (even if it is still with us)

I saw this gorgeous high hopes wrap for a chilly day chez dottie angel, fell in love with it and had to have a go.  Alas, my crochet not being quite up to scratch, I found myself getting totally overwhelmed by endless rows, strips of varying lengths, and tangled fingers and hook trying to join one strip to another.  So, still harbouring a strong desire to crochet a scarf for me, I ended up with this:

I love those treble blobs which I learnt when doing my granny squares last summer (still doing them) from Lucy at Attic 24.  I added more bits on to the ends to make a fringe so that I wouldn't have to tidy away the dangly ends.

However, I still lingered after that high hopes wrap for a chilly day and would not allow myself to be deterred by endless rows of double crochet.  Off I went to the yarn shop for more scrumptious wool and my determined, vastly improved, dexterous fingers finally produced my wrap:

Ha, lace doily and all!! After much perseverance and really trying hard, my high hopes wrap for a chilly day was made and it has been keeping me snug and warm since.

With no sign of my crochet addiction abating, I started on a new blanket, not that I knew what this was going to turn out to be a blanket, as I purchased the wool on impulse on a grey day when colour was most needed. Et voilà, inspired by Lucy's granny stripe blanket.

I was a little unsure about the colours, which are much brighter than what they appear to be, but they are growing on me.  Little J likes them so it shall be his blanket.

However, this addiction to crochet must be tempered, even if ever so slightly, to allow space for other pressing matters.

I wouldn't quite call it sewing but I loved making this rag wreath which was done in a jiffy.  A great idea from Bunny Mummy

These are some of my own makes:

Antique fabrics, some new ones, embroidery and bits of anything I can get my hands on really.

and a new pencil holder for my Princess.  Just a clean tin, photocopied fabric and some glue.

Some sewing soon, especially as I have signed up to the Felt Fairy's A Monthly Make 2011.

Back soon. xxx

Happy New Year

Snippets from 2010

Happy Holidays

I wish you all a very, very happy and healthy festive season and beautiful special moments.

Happy holidays

Alas I have come away from home without my camera cable so I will post my crafting photos in the new year.  Last minute packing and running around like a headless chicken makes for forgetting my essentials.  However, I shall indulge in another (difficulty choosing makes that two) of my wintry photos.  It is all still with us after all.

xxx

Winter wonderland

It really was quite lovely and more than we have ever set eyes on in our neck of the woods.  I do find winter landscapes truly beautiful.  They give rise to all these floaty feelings of calm and serenity.

They do so bring donuts to mind.

Magical forest.

Even the spider's web had no escape from the encroaching ice.

There has been some crafting taking shape amidst the snowy distractions. I shall keep that for later.

Hope you're all keeping warm or cool, in whichever part of the world is home. :)