Cowls

My lovely sister knit me this gorgeous green Gaptastic Cowl. She was originally making it for herself, but I subtly planted seeds of doubt in her mind ("That colour is too bright for you, but it's perfectly suited to me!").
It's like wearing a warm hug.
My girl child was quite upset when I refused to share it with her, so I've quickly crocheted her a Calm Cowl. I used a few balls of Moda Vera Mousse in grey and brown on a 4.5mm hook. It's a little more dense than it should be, but that's what happens when you hook from the stash.

Autumn #2

Good weather for climbing trees

Tea Thyme

Tea Leaves Cardigan knit in Tosh Vintage Thyme.

Knit in only 35 days! Woohoo! I feel like a friggin knitting legend!

Rav'd

Autumn

I do love Autumn.
Melbourne has turned on some beautiful autumnal days this year.
The boy has been loving all those leaves.
He also loved meeting his dad for the first time ever.
I'm still processing it...

Snow Flower Wall Hanging

Before:

After:

We live in a small house, Ollie's bedroom is actually the dining room, with double glass doors adjoining the lounge. For nearly 3.5 years we have lived with brown paper on the glass doors to limit the amount of light that streams into his room in the evenings. Today I got sick of looking at that bloody stylish paper, so rifled through the stash and found a Snow Flower panel that has been waiting for the right project. I sashed the panel in some Kona in Meringue, and the binding is possibly Kona Coal.

Much nicer.

(can't believe I waited so long!!)

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I don't know about you, but when I'm making something for someone I tend to think about them a lot while I'm doing it. It's part of what I love about receiving handmade goodies made especially for me. I imagine the maker has thought about me a lot whilst creating something just for me.

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It's now been 5 months since my dad died, and I've set about working on this quilt again, made from his shirts. I started it about 3 months ago, but I needed to take a break from all that thinking.

I hope to have it ready for hand quilting in the next couple of days. Then I'm going to burn myself a cd from dad's extensive itunes library, and sing along while I quilt it. No doubt with a box of tissues at my side.

Circuit Board

My sister calls this the Circuit Board Quilt. She has her eye on it, I know. Made using blocks created for me by members of one of the first quilting bees I joined - Bee Addicted 3. It's a work in progress - I still have two more rows of four to sew on, then a border, before the top is finished.

Remember these fabrics?

Cast on

Tea Leaves Cardigan by Melissa La Barre

Tosh Vintage in Thyme

Sashiko quilting

I bought a few indigo fabrics from a riverside market in Takayama, Japan, last year. I've made them into a simple strip quilt top and backed it with a Kona solid in indigo. I'm slowly hand quilting it in a sashiko design in white. I so love the contrast of the white on the indigo that unfortunately I don't even look at the japanese fabrics on the quilt front any more. No doubt when it's finished, though, I will flip it from side to side to give both sides their time in the spotlight.

Grandmother's Garden progress

Remember this? I'm pleased to report that it has grown considerably, and now measures about 53 inches by 61 inches,about 135cm by 154cm.
I still have a fair bit of sewing to get it to a queen sized quilt, but it feels achievable! It became the perfect project to do when I felt my creativity waning, as I could sit down and baste a handful of hexies if I only wanted to do a little stitching, or sew together a bunch of hexie flowers if I had more time (and motivation). The more it grows, the more I want to work on it, too.

First Day of School

Ollie is attending school for the first time today. Wow, where did that time go??


Last night I decided he needed a little mama-made bag tag so he could easily distinguish his bag from all the others. This little mini quilt seemed like just the thing for my dog-obsessed boy!