I have been busy making more scarves, and have even showed a few ladies how to make them. On Tuesday I went along to a local craft group and a few of the ladies were keen to learn so they could make themselves one.

And as the weather has cooled right down, I was able to wear one up town for the first time and I had quite a few comments about it. I was quite chuffed and wondering if I should make a few more to put on the co-op table at the next markets?

I have been very busy trying to make some curtains for the house, when we moved in it was all continuous lace and looking a bit tired so here are my decided upon style, just hoping they're not too dark.

My sewing table has seen better days......

My new goodies...

A few op-shop finds this week...

At craft on Tuesday my dolls finally got put together and grew some hair, hopefully they won't be naked for too much longer...

Lavender..... just because its so lovely 

Have a nice day!

Crocheting

Well I have finally finished some crocheting projects and I was determined not to open a new ball of wool until the current ones were finished - and I succeeded - YAH!!!!

Firstly I started on a beanie for Nate as he had chosen out the orange as his favorite color in the shop....

  I really had no idea what I was doing and made it up as I went along, hence the little pixie point on top! But it is kinda cute  :)

 I then decided to make a matching scarf as most scarve are way too long for him and winter is around the corner. It is not that spectactular, I had originally started out single crochet and realised it was going to take me forever, so after two colors of that I switched to double crochet and finished the other end off with single crochet to match.

 Nate thinks they are great, I'm just happy that I now know how to crochet!

I was making this beanie for me - it was very hard on my hands to make as the wool is super thick and my largest hook is a 5mm - but it's turned out great, too small for me in the end, but a perfect fit for Hayles and I'm going to make a few more flower to go onto it.

So with the left over wool I made my nine granny squares for a cushion for Nate...

And some bunting to match...

And when we finally made it on our day trip to Nundle to the wool mill, I was all ready to pick out some new wool!! I also got some wool for spinning, can't wait to learn how to do that! I am missing a few bits of my spinning wheel, so when hubby gets it all sorted out for me - a spinning I shall be!

When I woke up this morning my head was full of wonderful inspiring crafty things to do today - somehow I ended up getting roped into setting up sylvanian village! which by the by took about 3 hours all up!!!!  Not that I was complaining (I do love a day in a miniature town)  But when it was 2pm I realised I'd better feed the boys whom I'd neglected all morning.

Finger Knitting

Okay, last weekend when we visited the Andrews in the fabulous Blue Mountains - I attempted to teach my 11 yr old niece how to crochet. But alas I am a shocking teacher!! I think she was getting it - but I kept insisting she look up tutorials on utube - and I kind of make mine up as I go most of the time. So anywho - I had my wool with me. Hayleys jeans kept falling down and she was walking funny around Katoomba to try and keep them from falling around her ankles (poor dear - we forgot her belt) so I grabbed a few strands of wool and showed my niece how to finger knit - thinking it'd be a quicker thing to learn, so I whipped up a wool belt for Hayley.  I know the story is dragging on a bit now but I am getting to it - you know how one thing leads to another and so on......

So when we got home I started to finally use up some of my huge stash of wool to create a funky scarf, 2 balls of wool and about 30 mins later - wallah.....

I haven't done finger knitting since I was a kid - I remember mum showing me.  So glad that it came to mind and I am loving it like crazy and thinking I might make a few more.  

I don't have a mannequin to take flash piccys of my creations - but lucky there's always eager kiddlings around.

"Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit, either."
~Elizabeth Zimmerman

Okay, so I've finally decided to take the plunge and join the blogging world. I spend so much time blog hopping that I thought it'd be a great way to bring all my ideas and thoughts together and actually achieve more out of my day. So please bear with me as I stumble through my days trying to get more out of my time.


Yesterday whilst blog hopping, I came upon some scraves made out of cashmere rosettes.

http://cherishedvintage.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-12-01T01:38:00-08:00&max-results=7

Since moving south I have found a great appreciation for scarves and have a wee bit of a problem with how many scarves is enough!?! Any who...... When it gets really cold some of the 'pretty' scarves just don't cut it.

 

 And me being me, must find some kind of material in my stash to 'attempt' to make my own. The only supplies in bulk that I have is my wool batting for my quilts. It's creamy and soft and I have enough to play with.

So far I am feeling good about the rosettes, but maybe they could be a bit bigger, still not quite sure how I'm going to attatch them together to make a scarf, but I've got heaps more to make before I get to that part.