Yarn attack

I had one of those when I spied Louise's most recent project on-the-make. I remembered last year wanting to get on the granny square bandwagon, but I wasn't brave and was still very unskilled in the art of crochet. Nowadays I'm a bit more fearless. Don't know about the skill. Ha!


Last weekend, armed with my trusty hook I did a bit of yarn hoarding over at my local in town to make up a car/travel blanket, justifying that not one inch of it will got to waste...after all this one's going to be treasured for years to come. When it's finished.

I'm crocheting the blocks together as I go, a la this super excellent tutorial. I'm hoping it'll end up with a mishmash organic feel when it's done 'cos the layout is pretty much unplanned.


Of course, I've piled myself with another project on-the-go. Gah!......when I really should be binding the new quilt (yep, its back) for the kiddo.


Instead I'm strangely compelled to make more small "grannies".


Hope your week is good! Cheerio!

Leftovers

Leftovers can sometimes be fun..... fabric scraps that is. And these two now make it seven house blocks all up. Here they are posing with some toys I borrowed from the kiddo.


I'm aiming for, ummm let's see, about twenty blocks? Or even twenty-four. At this rate, it'll take me forever to frickin sew the entire top.

Each one eats up about an hour to sew and each one is frustratingly fiddly. The roof patches are constantly confounding me each time I start a new one. That one up there took me three attempts to get the okay nod.


At this slowpoke rate, the quilt might end up gifted to the kid when she's a teenager. Or to the grandkid, good heavens!

And as slow as each one takes to make, each one of these is also infinitely satisfying to finish.

We're all a bit snotty and flu-ey around here. So, I'm going back to the couch with a hot cup of lemon tea to banish the germs and watch this fun romp of a show.

Cheerio!

Growth spurt

The kid has been needing trousers lately. What with this growth spurt, she's turning into quite the weed.

I had been a neglectful mummy and ignoring the ankle view she had been showing me from the last lot of trouser sewing I did.....until I saw how shabby she looked next to her friends at child care last week. Good thing this easter long weekend shindig. I really got stuck into revving up the machines.


I even chose a new trouser pattern from this superb japanese craft book. This one has pockets and a slight boot leg.


And here's trouser number two (same pattern) being road tested this morning while we were at the park.



Both trousers were transformed from japanese fabrics from my stash. The pros of having a decent sized stash being I didn't have to step out of my craft room for this session. (Not even for some notions) I think the first one was from Reprodepot and the second is from Leslie's etsy shop.

Hope everyone's having a good week.

Cheerio!

Building houses

Hey folks! Is it time for a new house block? I think so.


One with lots of autumn colours. All fabrics were taken from the scrap heap, which is begging to be tidied up.

There's another few blocks on the go, so stay tuned for those.

Cheerio!

Korshay

Us crafters, don't we just love our toys? And as I was playing with this one, I couldn't help hearing that humming base tune Sully was hopping to part way through the movie.

Pom....pom....pom....pom....pom....pom


Those Clover folks have done it again! And no doubt I'm the last on the planet to have discovered this wee pom-pom gadget thingy. 'Cos it looks so cute adorning the kiddo's newest korshay (her word, not mine) scarf.


The scarf was a super-quick project......hmmm, four teevee viewing evenings? Yep, thereabouts. It's made of some pretty 8 ply cotton I picked up at my nearest Spotlight, but the pom-poms are made of leftover fuschia Zara wool from another project. 'Cos after a few goes, the cotton just wasn't making nice, ball-shaped ones.


On other news, we've been having so much rain and damp our little patch of grassy yard has turned into a field of mushrooms......Yuck! I know mushrooms are normally very twee and whimsical and cute, but our garden just looks vile. Any suggestions please?

If you have any, please email your garden fungal annihilation tips to jade(dot)ghenzer(at)gmail(dot)com. 'Cos the mushroom infestation is doing my head in. I and the geezer much appreciate it.

Cheerio!