hannah's quilt

I made this quilt for Hannah when I was still pregnant. My first finished attempt at making one. I used the same fabric I used to decorate her bedroom, a cotton/bamboo wadding and a fleecy cotton for the backing. She is big enough and it is cold enough for her to start using it now.

winter nest

I've been wanting to make new cushions for the couch for a long time. So while watching the Australia/Ghana World Cup game I made them. I found this beautiful hand printed fabric from Australian textiles designer Kristen Doran.

felt slippers

I found the cutest pattern for crochet felted slippers and they reminded me of Mariska. So I had to make them for her. I had no idea how they would turn out. When I finished crocheting them, they seemed so huge, about twice the size they should have been. I crocheted a little sample piece and felted it by hand in a bowl of hot water. It seemed to work ok, so I thought if I put the slippers in a pot of hot water on the stove they should shrink and felt. After an hour standing stirring the pot they were only a fraction smaller and hardly felted at all. I could still see all the crochet stitches. So I stuck them in the washing machine on the hottest program for an hour. A little scary. It brought back memories of when I put my Dad's woollen scarf in the wash when I was a teenager. When I took the slippers out of the machine I had that same feeling of oh no I shrank them! But this time it was a good thing. They were the perfect size, and better than I thought they would turn out. The perfect birthday pressie for a sister with a winter birthday.

wintery warmth

Winter has definitely started. A wet and rainy week and everything needs a little bit of warmth.

knitted railing

woolly bmx

VW

tree scarf

knit the city: phone box cosy


knitted bus

flowers and granny's

I'm gradually getting the hang of this! I've been looking through a crochet book I've had for a while now, and watching tutorials on YouTube trying to teach myself how, but with quite a few failure. So I started going along to a craft group at my Nanna's retirement village. There is no better way to learn than sitting around a table with a combined 400 years experience in crocheting and knitting. These are my first attempts. I'm hoping to crochet a blanket for our bedroom made up from flowery granny squares.