Update-Tilly wearing her jumper.....

Awwwwwwwww............

Puggle jumper is finished.

Phew....I finally finished the little Pug jumper I was making for my friends Pug puppy. The jumper is knitted and I added crocheted teeny tiny flowers round the neckline from Lucy at Attic24 . I've just kind of made this up as I went along based on a really simple pattern I found on Ravelry.

Can you see how it fits? This is the side view so her head comes out at the end where the flowers are, the short bit is the front, you can see the gaps where her legs go, and the longer bit goes down her back.

The picture below is the back.......

This picture is the front...... 

And here it is, all ready to be delivered to the gorgeous Tilly Puggles.



I'll try and post a picture of her wearing it if possible, although it's really hot here and I wouldn't want her to boil over in a jumper on the hottest days we've had this year!!!

Mothers Day Pressie.

Once again I have copied been inspired by Lucy on Attic 24 to make this brooch. I have loved it since I first saw it and decided to make one for my Mum for Mothers Day. She has a lovely purple coat so I decided to make orange, pink and turquoise flowers to set it off. My Mum was a hippy in the 60's and loves her bright colours....here is the end result:-

Like Lucy's I sewed a brooch pin on the back.....

  

and then of course I had to try it out.....

I'm really pleased with how it turned out and it was so quick and simple. I might have to make one for myself now.

I also finally got around to delivering the mini-scarflette and mittens to my nine year old niece. I had some of the little flowers I'd made when practising the flower brooch and of course we decided they looked really cute sewn on to the mittens and scarf.....

 

I had a lovely day in town today shopping with my friend Ms V. We of course started off in Cath Kidston where we were looking at all the beautiful fabrics and planning bunting for a baby shower she is crafting for. We saw some gorgeous Orla Kiely stuff which I love (but is way out of my price range) and then on to Monsoon where I bought this top with a £25 voucher I had been given. The top was £26 and it felt fab to be having it all wrapped in tissue and put in a lovely bag and just handing over £1. Tee hee!

The day was rounded off with Primark where we saw some gorgeous tea towels for £1.20 each. I bought these two.....

and I think I might make bunting out of these, or a cushion cover, or an apron, I haven't decided yet. I also got these sweet little 'footsies' for wearing in my ballet shoes-£1.50 for 2 pairs-a bargain!

No antiques or vintage finds yet this weekend but there's still tomorrow! :-)

xx



More scarves and wrist-warmers!!

Oh well, I know I said no more knitting scarves or wrist warmers after knitting them for me, Mum and my sister but my little niece kept trying them all on and complaining about the unfairness of them all being too big for her! She must have told me a hundred times how much she wanted them and how turquoise was her favourite colour, so yesterday I trawled Bury Market , and found turquoise wool! Today Geordie was fixing a neighbours car so I sat and watched Kirstie's Handmade Britain on Sky+, which I love, and knitted little girl versions of my scarflette and mittens.

I haven't sewn them up yet but here they are next to my 'big girl' version. I hope she likes them. The turquoise is a bit more vibrant than it looks on the picture and I know nine year olds can be flipping fussy, so fingers crossed.

Finished my purple one....

I actually do prefer this to the orange one. I made this a couple of inches longer which seems to have made it a little looser and nicer to wear. I used the same scarflette pattern from Ravelry as before and exactly the same wool as the orange (but obviously a different colour!!). Anyway I'm now leaving all types of neck warmers alone for now and moving on to my blanket. I'm making this, or my version of it anyway. I think it's beautiful. I'll probably not make it this big-I just want a blanket to put on the parcel shelf of my car Tulip, to sit out on in the Summer or for a car rug. I want it bright and colourful like this one but with a lot of red to match my car.

Can't wait to get started!!!!

Need it to freeze....brrrr.

Finished my lovely burnt orange scarflette. I love it!! It's so chunky and warm and the colour reminds me of ginger biscuits-Yum!! (can't you tell I'm back at WeightWatchers). The colour's a bit darker than on the picture and it's soooo thick, it needs to get really really cold now so I can test it out in real-life conditions.I've just noticed there's a duck flying out of the side of my head, a rabbit on top of my head and some kind of dinosaur perched on the other side-no wonder I look like I've taken some sort of hallucinogenic substance-lol!

Ps. here are my lovely vintage-style bird slides which I bought off ebay for £1.75 each!! I love love love these....they go so well with my Cath Kidston oilcloth Bird messenger bag.

Another schmatta....

This is a gorgeous wool-superchunky and fluffy. It's really soft and warm and I added more of my mum's vintage buttons. I hope it stays cold for a few more months as I'd really love to make more of these. Just bought some more wool in burnt orange...watch this space!!

Things I've been making....

Just got back into knitting and crochet. Been after a vintage-style tea cosy for ages so just had a go with some scraps of wool I had left. Decided to finish off with pom-poms as I have a bit of a pom-pom obsession and I got fed up making the big ones for my Monsoon-inspired scarf.

Handwarmers! I love these!! I can drive in them, get money out of my purse, look at my lovely Betty Blues nail varnish! I made these from double knitting which I usually hate because I get bored if it's not chunky wool that knits up fast but these were finished in a couple of hours. I'm def going to make more of these.

My lovely schmatta inspired by Amy on Angry Chicken , I love this too as it's perfect for driving in. It doesn't get in the way like scarves do. I wanted to make a teal one but they didn't have any super chunky wool in the wool shop in any colours I liked. I went for this on an impulse, it's chunky but I knitted 2 strands together. I really really really wanted to start knitting it straightaway so I had to choose something and get going. I'm really pleased with it, especially the purple vintage buttons I got off my mum.

I've started another one now in olive green....I feel a new obsession coming on!! Someone slap me quick!