Showing posts with label crochet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crochet. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Working with wool.


I've been making woolly things lately, learning some new stitches and getting a little better and faster at my crotchet. I'm enjoying being part of a crochet group and meeting for crochet and chats.






On the weekend I taught Juliet how to make pom poms, which was great fun. Then we found out about an awesome way of making pom poms with a fork, so we tried that too. It was so quick!







By Sharon Newth

Monday, May 20, 2013

This past week.


My computer is completely dead! Or it could be in a coma. Time will tell, but for now, it was no life. This past week I've made some stuff though, and found some treasures. I'm blogging from the iPad so I will do the best I can.

I did my first crochet stitch, a chain stitch. Going to attempt another one tomorrow. I find it really hard trying to follow instructions being a leftie, so it was a bit frustrating.


Something really weird happened to me. I woke up last Wednesday morning dreaming of a red chenille blanket from the 70s. It left a big impression on me and I had no idea why. I had a busy day that day but was walking past an op shop so I went inside and there it was. Exactly the bed spread of my dream, and only $1. I had to get it and I'm still reeling a little from how strange the experience was. Here it is with a couple of other things I picked up.


I found a couple more suitcases to complete my stack. Dylan liked it. How cute is he in his electric blue velvet pants? I made these when Aidan was the same age.


I used a free postcard to make cute earrings and a pendant. I love them!


I made these for Little A using the 2 quilts pictured above.



And I found this super cute coffee mug at the op shop on Saturday morning. It makes me smile.


Juliet and I made some more earrings together. Hers are the cute birds, mine are the sewing machines.

And lastly, a skirt with some vintage lace, and a t shirt with 2 transfers for the little girl of a friend. All in a weeks work. :-) What have you all been up to?