Still an owl, but in a different form, I’ve made a crochet Hootabelle hat 🙂
I’ve never made a hat before but always liked the style of these owly ones, so just picked the colours to match our favourite TV owl friend Hootabelle!
The pattern I bought from etsy from the Inner Hooker. It was pretty easy to follow and I’m pleased with how it turned out 🙂
Now to decide what colour to make one for W …
I’ve been busy making more owls, production line stylee. I’ve had eyes, wings, hearts and toes galore piling up ready to be sewn on. These three are all done (just one for my niece left to finish off).
I do really like owls, but after the last one I think I’ll be glad not to have any more people to make one for! Although I’ve not left owls completely, just a different kind – see next post!
The links to the pattern are all in my original post here 🙂
Off to finish the next owl …
Wow!
I've heard people talking plenty about this thing called a walking foot, but I've never really understood what it did or thought seriously about getting one, until now.
Starting making quilts and listening to others talking about how they're going to quilt the tops of theirs made me start looking at what my sewing machine feet are really all for. I had a good play on the machine trying them all out along with all the different stitches that it can do and then started browsing the internet to find out what other feet were out there. There I found a quilters pack of feet on ebay which I snapped up. It gave me 4 new feet, and one of them was the walking foot above.
I've been making some bunting (very slowly, I've had so many problems making it that it gets put to one side until I feel up to giving it another go!) and the latest problem was the tape along the top was not flat once it had been sewn on and looked generally rubbish. I decided to give it one more go, this time with the walking foot (it's first outing on the sewing machine) and could not believe the difference! Look how flat and proper it looks now:
I was about to say it's my new favourite foot, but I've also been playing with the one that does free motion which is rather cool too, so I'll have to go with 'I love my sewing machine'! 😀
It’s been a long time coming, but finally, I’ve finished my blanket 🙂
I started this one for a charity project – Hook Up With The Crafty Bums. Â You can read more about it on the Crafty Bums blog, or join in the chat and see photos of other blankets so far on the Hook Up Facebook page.
It was a good excuse to try out the crochet diagonal pattern I’d been given a link to. It’s on a French blog but translated into English here. It’s actually pretty easy once you get started as you’re doing the same thing over and over til you get to the middle and then decreasing the same over and over until you get to the end. The worst bit is towards the centre. The rows get really long and it gets really tedious, and it feels like it will never end. It’s a bit like a steam train chugging up a really steep hill and towards the top it goes so slowly it almost stops, but then when you reach the top it starts to go faster and faster until you get to the end!
Changing colour every row also leads to a lot of ends. A lot! So to save me sewing in millions of ends I was left with I chose to add a border instead that did the job for me.
I’m glad it’s finally finished and I’m looking forward to seeing it alongside all the other pretty blankets donated 🙂
The problem with working on several big projects at the same time is that there's big chunks of time where you have nothing finished to show for it, which is the reason I've been very quiet on here of late. I still don't have a completely finished thing to show off, but I have finally got to the point where I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, so will be back with some more finished makes soon!
In the meantime, I've had a week of parcel deliveries this week and have been looking at and photographing the lovely fabric that the postman has brought me. I'm trying my hand at quilt making and have bought a couple of jelly rolls (something I've never used before)
I have plans for 2 quilts. This is the first. The fabric is called Peak Hour by Robert Kaufman. I have a jelly roll, 8 FQs and some very strokable orange minky for this one.
And this is the second. The fabric is called Scoot by Robert Kaufman and I've got a jelly roll, 2 charm square packs and some lovely baby blue minky for this one.
Lots of lovely boy fabrics to make quilts for a lovely little boy!