This Sunday is Remembrance Day but the traditional paper poppies as sold by the British Legion are obviously not available here. I don’t know whether there is something similar instead, but if there is then it hasn’t been on sale anywhere that I’ve been!
So instead I made my own 🙂
(P.S. I will put a donation in a tin when I find one!)
OK, so this one isn't so new as I've made one before, right back when I learnt to crochet at the start of the year (see here), but I've just finished another one, and it is a bag, so I figure I can add it to my bag list 🙂
This one is for my niece's birthday in a few weeks time. She saw the one I made my sister and requested one of her own for her birthday.
It's actually a little bit smaller than the original. I misread the pattern at the very beginning so there were fewer stitches in each round, but since it's for a little person anyway we'll just pretend that I did that on purpose!
One finished owl bag ready to wrap and post 🙂
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 …
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 🙂
I’m a little behind as we were away on holiday last weekend, but we’re now into April and over 1/4 way through the year.
After a few days working hard I’ve finished up to the end of March on my blanket 🙂
It’s starting to turn a little colder and the leaves on the ground are signalling that Autumn is here!
We’ll have to wait and see what the sky of April holds in store.
A few close-ups of March 🙂
She's finished – it's Hootabelle!
She was a bit more tricky than Hoot to do as she has more colours and stripey legs and a hairband with a butterfly. For most of her I used the same pattern as Hoot and just changed colours. Then I went on a butterfly hunt to find a butterfly pattern and found this one here, which took rather a few attempts to get right but I made it in the end 🙂
One last photo – the two of them together 🙂
This is my creation of Hoot from ABC4Kids Giggle and Hoot!
Whilst we've found most children's TV in Australia to be the same as the UK, Giggle and Hoot were new to us and W has become a big Hoot fan!
I'm so pleased with how he turned out – he's great 🙂
I found the pattern for him on another blog here. It was actually finding this pattern online at the end of last year that made me say I'll have to have another go at crochet as I need to make it!
I've got another owl half made – I can't wait to see the two of them together!!
Having to post Easter gifts for my nieces and nephew from overseas this year means they've got to be non-edible, so after much thinking and internet browsing I came across these to make – little baskets just big enough to fit a few little Easter eggs, and something they can play with with their dolls/dinosaurs after.
Aren't they pretty!
I've made them one each and one for W, all in their favourite colours.
Of course it wouldn't be right to photograph them without the eggs in (I'll send some money for eggs to refill them once they arrive), so I might have just had a mini Easter egg feast, maybe …
Today is the last day of February, and right on time I've finished my last square for the month!
It's so big, it took up nearly the whole width of the spare room floor to lay it out!
As you can see, the month started with some much colder days and there's been several days with thunder and lightning, show by the sparkly thread near the square centres – here's some close-ups to show it off better 🙂