Bumper Week

 This was a wonderful week. I had the best week ever, My daughter came down from Bathurst to spend some time with us this week. She made this wonderful laundry bag, I know it will be very well received.

 We did some cooking in the oven, this is just part of the dish, potatoes with cheese and leeks. I forgot to photograph the lovely fish parcels.

 Meggie.

 this is the other side of the laundry bag my daughter made.

 This pile of fabrics is bundles of laundry bags cut out ready to sew.

 On the Friday we went out with one of my good friends Melody
 http://thehouseonthesideofthehill.blogspot.com.au/
where my daughter drove us in Melody's car, a wonderful thing to do and these sheets were amongst the bargains I bought. Perfect for the laundry bag linings. (the sheets are white, my shadow is making them look yellow).

 We went to a couple of patch work shops too and I bought this delightful cat pin cushion and Jodies birds. The cross stitch kit was from an op shop and is for the Crafternoon Stash.

I have been busy making the cords for the laundry bags too. Making up sets of 4 as I go along. I have the ball in a hat box threaded through a hole and it keeps the yarn from rolling all over the place as I use it.
It was my Husbands Birthday on Sunday and my niece had a barbeque party with all of the friends and family around to celebrate. A wonderful week.

Making Cord.

An up date on yesterdays cord making. Earlier on today I realised that I could make this cord even quicker by using a knitting Nancy and so I took off two if the pins and left 2 pins on. Much quicker cording.

Spotlight Sale Yesterday.

 Yesterday I went to Spotlight with two $10 vouchers, One Birthday voucher and one from their own magazine, They also had 40% off their fabric so I chose these, Laundry bags will be fabulous!

 They also had this on sale too, Moda Vera Gypsy at 50c a ball. As soon as I saw this I knew what i wanted to do, Make my own cord.

 Really really easy, Using two double pointed needles cast on 2 stitches, knit, slide the stitches back to the front, don't turn the needles and then knit.

Keep doing that until you have the length you need. cast off. weave the ends in and you have your cord. Very easy and very cheap.

Laundry Bags.

12 laundry bags made ready to post (3 boxes of 4 bags).

Knitted Toy.

 I have been busy knitting non stop for the past 2 days, Meet McDuff from the ABC book of knitted toys by Robyn Earl-Peacock.

This was a special request for my friends daughter who has been quite unwell for a while. I hope she will like it.

Yesterday.

 I did some sewing and sorting out of fabrics for the laundry bags, The pile of fabric has been sorted into inner, outer and the top strip of the bag for the cord and then put into sets of 4 ready to sew. One lot sewed.

 Then in the afternoon I went shopping with my husband to look for shoes, (I have always found this a very difficult thing to do and since I was down to zero shoes it was about time before winter came). I was very very pleasantly surprised to find that there are plenty of shoes out there that fit! The brown shoes are from Rivers, $20. the other two pairs are from a shop in Greensborough shopping centre leather $20 each. so 3 pairs for $60. I am actually looking forward to winter now! and I won't have to shop for shes for another 6 years at least!

This is what I am doing in the evening, alternating between knitting and crochet squares of the same size.

Tilli and Laundry Bags.

 How cute is Tilli, she is sleeping in the family room in the sunshine,

Another 4 laundry bags made ready to go.