Drooling over bargains

The wool in the bag was gifted..a gorgeous cotton/acrylic mix. Then the others are wool mixes from the charity shop yesterday.

And the best bit is this fabulous cotton double sheet for £2...just need to find a pattern so I can make myself a skirt :o)

Lots to do

Pictures tomorrow hopefully - been sewing like mad. The pink bag just needs lining and the brown bag has most of the decorations done, then the lining as well. I also put an add on GP Lets for my san pro pockets, and I've got 4 orders! While hubby was in the loft today he also found a box full of material (we moved just over 2 years ago and the loft still has many, many boxes that need sorting out), so I've got to sort that out as well.

Wooohooooo...

.........I've finally finished sorting through and untangling all the wool that was given to me way back here. I actually thought it was in March so that's not bad is it - 6 weeks to remove it from my lounge floor :-). While I was in the sorting mood I also went through the very large scrap bag that I keep for the kids to use as they had got way beyond use even for their imaginative minds. We are now left with a small bag of useable fabric - mainly denim from old jeans - that they can do something with.

Anyway, I've nearly finished the outside of the scarecrow bag - had to order some orange fabric for some pumpkins - so I may just have to do some hooking later. I am missing it. I should really start the liners for the bags, but one evening off from them is ok isn't it?

I've also got to make hubbies anniversary card later as he is out of the house this evening at work, so the perfect opportunity.

Been busy

Been busy today. I've made the pink knitted monster for my niece, made a tiny knitted chick and I've nearly finished a knitted duck. The chick and duck are from The Children's Year. Quick to do and quite effective. The chick is so small that he won't photograph properly (he has actually got blue eyes) - I'll show you the duck tomorrow as he is only half stuffed.

I also bought some more fabric off Ebay (no comments please Claire ;-) ). They arrived this morning. More green paisley by Vera Bradley, some green polka dot and a gorgeous pink fairies and dandelions.

Pyjamas, brooches, wool & fabric

I finished the pyjamas this evening, and although I made them bigger for Ds3 to grow into, they have been pinched already :-).

I also stitched one of the brooch clips onto the flower I knitted at Christmas, so now I can add it to my coat.

I took apart the quilt cover I got in the charity shop yesterday. I knew that the green patchwork that I liked was only on one side but I never actually looked at the other side properly. I'm sure there will be something I can use this for.

I decided to sort out our hat rack as well. This old scarf was in there, but was too tatty really to take to the charity shop, so I decided to pull it down and reuse the wool.

Busy weekend

Well I've spent a very busy weekend trying to juggle children and re-arranging/incorporating all my craft stuff with my Mum's craft stuff. I've had to take out the material from my drawers and buy a box (plus one for the wool) because I just couldn't fit it all in the drawers. I've now got my cardmaking/scrapbooking stuff in the drawers (and a few bits left at the side of the bed) and the new boxes. Sorted through the kids stuff as well - blimey they do make a mess of it all :-) - looks tidier for 5 mins at least. I've had no chance to do any knitting or anything so I'm making myself sit down tonight to do some.

I would also like to have a go at making some pyjamas with the material I got from Lucie on the GP forum.

Felt food, wool and season table swap.

Blimey, has it been 5 days since I was last here. I've been making some felt food (I've managed 3 carrots, 1 ravioli and 2 burgers so far) and my 2 season table swap items. I tried making some felt snowflakes for the swap, but the felt was just too thick and I didn't like them so I've changed the second thing I'm making.

The top picture is both colours of the wool I ordered.

Off to look on ebay now for some funky blue material to line a cotton bag with.