Bunting and Embarrassing Shorts

I have been enjoying the sunshine and having fun doing some outside hooky.

If you haven't already heard, Lucy over at attic24 is looking for bunting producers and I can thoroughly recommend having a go. It's a great way to use up some leftover yarn.

Her tutorial is very straight forward to follow.
My favourite bit is the blocking as I have never done this before and it's a bit magic.

Here is the curly flag before..



after blocking...



She gives you all the information on how to do it.

I have also done a couple of quick projects.

The first made my children laugh.... alot!

I often cut off a pair of worn out jeans to make shorts for gardening in the summer and this year started with these..



 and after a bit of binding ended up with these.



I thought they were rather nice but oh no, I have been soundly corrected on that one!

I don't care though because no one else will see them anyway and what the heck.
Or maybe I should wear them up to school when they need picking up?!!

The second project was more acceptable (apparently) and is a pencil/phone/general tat case for my rucsac for work.

 

Have a good weekend.

A Day of Surfing

I have the week off for half term and as is the way have come down with lurgi, so I spent an entire day yesterday on the sofa under a blanket.

Having finished my book, I decided that I could do a bit of surfing...on the internet.

I was there for hours.

 

I spent ages looking back over Lucy's archives over at Attic24, enjoying all the lovely crochet.
 

I liked the look of her chocolate buns and made some of my own this morning as we had some small visitors for lunch.

 

I also looked again at the card I have been admiring by Larissa at mmmcrafts.
 

I have made her cards before blogged here, and I just loved the colours she used in the recent one.

The original instructions are by Martha Stewart and the link is on Larissa's post.

 

I decided to have a go this morning.
 

I didn't find it too easy (to say the least!)
and had a couple of attempts before getting the 'sticking the bunch of flowers together' bit right.

I think my brain is still a bit addled.
 

But finally it came together well..

 

Ta dah..
 

It is a very satisfying thing when it works.

 

Swirly Blue Skirt

This wasn't supposed to be a skirt.

 

I bought this lovely fabric from The Village Habberdashery.
 

It arrived the next day (so speedy, how do they do that!) and I really like it but it wasn't what I expected.

I looked at the fabric on the website and in my mind the pattern was alot smaller and I had intended to make a shirt.

Going back to the website now I realise that hovering over the fabric brings up a much better view of the actual print size, duh!! What a pillock.
 

 

Anyway I love the skirt so no worries.

I have finally perfected the pattern to fit me (New Look 6053) by making a size too big and trimming off the top a bit.
 

The fabric comes in other colours too and I really want to have a go at a dress....