My niece has got the knitting bug now, and she dropped by yesterday and asked if w could make her a knitting needle roll. This is what i did. I had in the linen cupboard a brand new unused pillow sham. It was the wrong size for our pillows but i loved it cos it was quilted. I folded it up to the size i needed, ruled stitching lines and sewed. adding elastic to one side in loops.
Finished half an hour later, a quilted knitting roll that cost me only $5.
I have just discovered that this pattern is designed by Cheryl Ross and is called Chester the Cat and is in a magazine called Quick and Easy Crafts Number 4.
This knitting is the second piece of knitting my niece has made. An eyelet lace blanket. She is doing very very well. I have given her a lesson on crochet this week and she is enjoying her new found love of crafts.
I am taking part in an internet swap at the moment, Look at what came in the post. A very lovely ginger and white kitty! Her paws are weighted and she can sit lovely on her bottom. She is made of polar fleece which is blanket stitch all around.
I just had to give you all a close up of her face and chest. Look at the lovely fish on the collar and such delightful stitching. I am one very lucky lady indeed!
I have been in the knitting and crochet mode for a couple of months and it has been ages since i used my sewing machine, and my thoughts have turned to Christmas. This year to ease myself back into sewing i thought i would make some gifts for girls. This lovely pyramid purse by Nicole Mallalieu http://www.nicolemdesign.com.au/tips/index.html I will be making 20 of them.
Then to go with them i will be making 20 of these beautiful headbands designed by Heather Bailey. http://www.heatherbaileydesign.com/HoorayforHeadbands.pdf
Knitted Rose brooches finished. This along with a fat 1/4 each is the gifts i have made for our end of year Christmas Party for A.C.D.A. cloth doll club.
This is the first piece of knitting my niece has made for her baby due in early January. A baby blanket.I am so proud of her achievements. i am now teaching her how to increase and decrease and knitting up a seam and simple eyelet patterns for her to do baby booties.
This week at our cloth doll club, we had a Bra Challenge. It was all in fun and an awareness of breast cancer research. I bought a pink bra from Savers in Greensborough, and the pink from my stash, I made this!
A Pink bird of some kind.
I have also been knitting for a couple of weeks now, All of these baby clothes are ready and waiting to be sewn up. I will do that when my niece is ready to learn that step in knitting.
