Hidden Treasures!

I was clearing out the loft yesterday and found something that brought more than a tear to my eye. My Mum, as you know, is a very talented lady in the art of knitting and crochet. My Dad was also a very creative man.

I found this young lady in a black bag thrown into the back of the roof above. Who is she I hear you ask...well I shall tell you. She started life around twenty five years or so ago (when I was fifteen years old or thereabouts - maybe younger) printed on a piece of material. She was, lovingly, cut out and stitched together, by me, using my late Grandmother's hand operated Singer sewing machine. She was then brought to life by a bag of kapok stuffing and dressed.

I remember it was my Dad who set up the sewing machine and who helped me complete this project. It is my Dad I shed a silent tear for now looking at her. It is this young lady I will re-stuff and bathe and who will now have a life in the light and will not return to the dark depths from which she has just been rescued...she will be another reminder how lucky I am to have and have had such loving, talented parents...thank you both.



(Captain Spaulding looks on...)

I also found these which I made for my daughter when she was three or four years old. She will be thireen in February...Santa, minus a cuff as my Mum pointed out...



and Cinders who is a bit topsy turvy and a bit worn and bobbly around the edges...

Take a square...

and make a bunny!



Hoppy New Year to you all...and to you Dad, wherever you may be watching from...love you!

Round and round we go!

My friend and colleague is having a baby in January...my Mother attends crochet classes and was pondering her next project...mmmm what could she do...





The pattern is from here Creative Crochet - thanks Kay! xx

Monkey Business

Meet my little chimpanzee...

Just hanging around...

Halloween is one of my favourite times of year...I love all things spooky




Boo here, however, does not fit this bill and spends her time night or day just hanging around the house with us all...I'm sure she does not know she is a bat and she is supposed to be fast asleep in someone's belfry!

Oh well...moving on...Christmas! Two or three weeks ago a colleague asked if I could make her Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus for her class at school and of course I could not say "no"...




Edited to add these figures have been travelling home with different Year 1/2 pupils since the beginning of Advent to remind them of the journey Mary and Joseph undertook to reach Bethlehem...

O Christmas Tree...

These were going to be pressies for my dear Daughter's friends...then she changed her mind and I am now making mini bags instead...



Here is a link to the pattern in case you would like to save our trees this Christmas and knit your own (albeit very small ones!) you will need to be a Ravelry user for this

Sshh!

It's a sleeping bunny!


She was a fairly quick knit, I started her last evening, finishing her around midnight...as you can see, it was so late when I completed her, she went straight to sleep!