Upcycling, gardening : contentment

It's been a great bank holiday Monday, just spent the day pleasing myself.

One curtain and a duvet cover, from a charity shop and a relative.

With a sewing machine and some interfacing, Are now

An ironing board cover

And a laundry bag.

Feeling refreshed ventured out into the garden, planted my courgette plants 

and weeded in the flower bed.

Time for a cup of coffee and a bit of hooky time

Day complete.

Hope yours was a good one too.

S xx

New blanket

I've been working on a new blanket. Warm weather has now arrived so thoughts turning to cotton instead. Looking for an interesting pattern for a top.

 

I'm getting frustrated by not being able to use my usual method of adding photos via picassa web, but I'll get used to this new way in the end.

Hope you are all enjoying this fine weather.

S xx

Think Pink

Jumper in Disney princess colours for granddaughter.

Then, impulse purchase of this fabric.

Which I turned into this top

Think I must be going through a pink phase.

Not had much time for blogging just lately, looking forward to catching up with all my favourite bloggers today.

S xxx

Managed to find a way to get the photo on.  Yeepee......

A posh frock

Hi, just spent the Easter holidays making a posh frock for my granddaughter.

Would love to share my photo of it but for some technical reason I cannot. Will try again tomorrow.

Hope she likes it. I won't get to see her til next weekend.

Hope you enjoyed your Easter break.

S xx

Bunny pattern

Here is the crochet pattern for the bunny.

I made mine with a 3.5mm hook and 3ply yarn, but any combination of hook and yarn would be ok.

1. BODY: Make magic ring, 3ch, 11tr into ring, tighten and SS to top of 3rd ch. (12 tr altogether)
2. 3ch, 1tr into same st, 2tr in each tr to end, SS to top of 3ch (24tr)
3. HEAD: 5ch, 3ttr and 1tr into same st
4. EARS: 9ch, 1dc into 2nd ch from hook, then work along ear as follows, htr, tr, tr, tr, tr, htr, dc, ss into top of tr on head
5. 9ch, 1dc into 2nd ch from hook, then work along ear as follows, htr, tr, tr, tr, tr, htr, dc, ss into tr on body which is just after the head.
6. Weave in ends, add features if required (embroidery, beads, pom pom tail)

Any probs with this pattern please feel free to ask. It's quite difficult transferring a pattern from your head to paper.

If you do make any of these bunnies please let me know.

Happy bunny making.

S xx

Bunnies and fabulous fabric

Hello fellow bloggers, isn't it great to see the sun again.

Had a creative day yesterday.

Turned some Herdwick handspun wool on my train journey to and from Leeds, into these, a few finishing touches required, tails, eyes etc, then good to go.

Also couldn't resist the Leeds Market and bought this lot. One lucky granddaughter is going to get some new dresses.

Hope your creativity is flowing too.

S xx