March so far!

New hy-line chickens! So gorgeous! But they are used to much smaller cages and don't quite know what to do with all this new space! We let them roam about the backyard for a bit but they tried to nest behind the air conditioner compressor! 

Little crochet house in progress. I suppose it won't be that little when I finish it. But man I hate sewing in threads!

Here it is mostly finished. I'm debating whether or not to put a chimney on it? What do you think?

Here is my most current project. An Eiffel Tower for my awesome sister. She does so much for me, but now she has to decide what she wants it to be! Could be a blanket (it's sure big enough!) or a curtain, or just about anything else!

I attempted a clafoutis but I don't think it really worked. Maybe the raspberries had too much liquid, or maybe too many of them? I've never actually eaten a proper one so I don't really have anything to compare it too!

And finally my recycled jellyfish, I'm still unsure what to do with them but they are pretty cool anyway! I thought I might make some normal crochet fish and maybe through a rainbow fish in there, I used to love that book!

Any ideas? Maybe a mobile? 

Time passing

Sorry I've been away, no internet for the past few weeks. 

Isn't it amazing how much we rely on it these days?

I got a bias tape maker for Christmas, but my lack of an actual iron stopped me from actually using it. But! Never fear I recently bought a new one and proceeded to make bias tape from my scraps all last weekend. It was a little frustrating at first but once I got the hang of it, it became quite fun. 

I have a Martha Stewart pattern for a bias tape bag that I've been dying to try for ages!

It's too dark at the moment for any photos (my apologies).

My parents bought a few knitting books from Adelaide op-shops so now I have too many projects to try!! Ah the frustrations of a crafter!

Dolls!

Ive long been inspired by Elisabeth Doherty's felt dolls, although I am nowhere near her calibre I think this little doll does me proud.

This is before the arms and legs were actually sewn on but the lighting is better. (it's actually the back of our living room curtain!) 

Here is when the limbs are attached, I am impossibly surprised that it turned out the way it did. I hand sewed almost everything, I tried using my beautiful new machine but didn't have the patience to do the finicky bits on it. 

I haven't decided the final fate of this little doll but I will probably keep it because I'm not totally satisfied with the sewing, BUT next time the proportion will be perfect! Isn't problem-solving a wonderful thing!

This is my final gorgeous doll, I finished this one a while ago but it took me awhile to get the motivation to sew all the body parts together and make her little dress.

The stringy thing down the bottom edge of the photo is actually a little garland, the scrunched up bits will be mini stars when I starch them and then both the doll and garland will be flying over east for the sweetest little girl!

Well that's my week as of yet, how has yours been?

Fire Brigade

Here are my photos for my fireman's helmet. There are more photos of the fundraiser event at their Facebook page "Quinn's Rocks Fire Brigade"

Catch up

Christmas was so busy, and the usual downtime afterwards completely failed. It's been over a month since I posted but not much has happened.

Hopefully tomorrow will be a day of major photography, I need to update my Etsy shop

Here are some baby apples from our garden, we can't eat them because it's the first crop but they were just way too cute!

One of my Christmas presents was this adorable cake stand and dome, the photo doesn't show the little bird on top very well but I think my family did a wonderful job with their gifts this year. Handmade things are always best and there were certainly plenty of those going around!

Our beautiful pussy cat resting on the backpack. This was on a MEGA hot day and we had just walked home from the shops with a couple of milk jugs and the bag was still cold from them.

Here is my most exciting photo at the moment, (aside from my awesome photo-bombing thumb!) I get to paint this fireman's helmet for Quinn's rocks fire brigade. It's a volunteer artist project to raise money for the brigade.

I have my preliminary sketches all drawn out, now it's just a matter of sanding and priming the plastic so the paint actually sticks!

How have your holidays been?

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Christmas wreath

So remember a few posts ago when I was performing acupuncture on a form ring?

Well here's the end product!

I took a photo with the door inside and the outside so it was a bit clearer. Only thing is its too bulky to fit between the wooden door and the outer security door! So it'll hang somewhere else in the house, but I still like it!

Any thoughts?

Comments? 

General random thoughts?

Busy, busy, busy

Teddy bear, oh how cute are thee? I love these little pieced body parts connected with little buttons. This Christmas he'll be going to a lovely new home, I'll be sad to see him go. I loved the way the variations of the yarn changed so smoothly, it's really the first time I've had any luck with this type of wool. It's my own pattern so the head's a bit demented but the arms and legs are from this book.

My little birds from the last post went to some new homes over to some cousins in Adelaide but boys are so much harder to make things for!! There are four little boys, two above 6 and three below. 

(From left to right) I bought a pooh bear quilt block for the newest little boy, strangely enough I had never enough seen a pre-printed quilt block until today! It's a perfect size for the little guy. 

Next is a boy who likes Spider-Man, but due to a lack of licensed fabric my fantastic brother found this spider print. I loved that it had the red scattered throughout and I got the blue for backing cause it seemed to complete the Spider-Man theme. 

Then we've got two different Lorax prints for two more boys. One is a gorgeous window sort of print and the other is an A4 size print blocks. 

And lastly I was searching for Ben 10 fabric but they had just run out!!! So instead I got the basic colours for that watch thingy he wears. I have an idea of how it looks so I'm going to appliqué it on. 

Oh my gosh! I just realized I didn't even tell you what I am making!!!! 

Due to postage I vouched for something mostly flat, I decided to make different pillowcases for them. I'll show you pictures when they are done!

Looking at the beautiful wreaths from Attic24 I decided to manufacture a Christmas wreath of our own. Instead of crocheting a scarf thing to sew around the foam ring I've cut polar fleece to stitch around it. A lot of the patterns for the individual pieces have come from Attic24 tutorials, the golden swirly things were supposed to look like west australian Christmas tree flowers and look pretty good if I do say so myself. 

For these gloves I developed the pattern from a photo on pinterest. My sister has already put in a request, they are made of mitered squares. I may post the pattern but I'd like to get permission from the original source first. 

Hope your week has been just as productive in this crazy lead upto Christmas!!!!

What have you been upto? Let me know!