Mummy Made It

I thought I'd try my hand this week at a bit of dress-making.

Baby-Kalico dress-making!

I bought a lovely book which claimed to have 'full-size patterns'.

It didn't mention that ALL the full size patterns were printed on the 2 sheets

 and are just a mess of lines! :(

So I cut myself a pattern from one of Baby-Kalico's other dresses.

And made this little dress adding a flower that my mother had crocheted.

I can't wait to try some more!!

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And my 'Mummy' i.e. Granny-Kalico sent Baby H a parcel this week

which included this gorgeous knitted set:

It's still a little big, but it goes nicely with her new dress:

It's a shame my mother no longer knits for me,
but it's my own fault!: As a child
I don't think I appreciated all her hard work,
but I do now!!

I just can't believe how quickly she is growing up -
sitting up, giggling... it won't be long before she's off!

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Our strange cat seems to be able to make herself comfortable in any position :)

Wordless Wednesday - Nice Knitting!

Hat & booties from Vicky C

Detail of Kitty hat!
- Thank you Vicky!

Lovely and soft Lilac cardi from Joyce (no Blog)
- Thank you Joyce!

Abby catching a few zzz's on Granny's knitting and Toby's quilt

Crochet One, Knit Two & Quilt Five

My unborn baby is already being spoilt!

Katie Z. from Zana's Nini sent baby a beautiful crochet hat

with a choice of 3 colour flowers...

So cute! Thanks Katie Z!

Check out her Etsy shop!

As the season has turned, I have knitted

the boys new hats for school

(I can't crochet at all!)

2 obvious things happened with the hats...

1) I couldn't get the boys to let me take any sensible photos..

And 2) The little guy has already lost his hat at school!!

Kate N. very kindly sent me some quilt tops

to hand over to Vicky for Project Linus...

Kate is amazingly productive

and I am so looking forward to catching up

with her again... soon!

We will be meeting another blogger

who I have admired for some time too...

soon!

I'm sure you'll get to read all about it on our blogs...

soon!

Another bad photo of the top below

(the borders are straight in reality!!)

And this red, white and blue top is my favourite from Kate,

but it's not a great photo either :(

Thanks Kate for five fabulous tops for a great cause!

(and see you... soon! ;oD )

More of the white stuff

Kids (like me) dream of days like this! School closed due to the snow!!



It was wonderful walking in the snow...



feeding the sheep...



And building the boys first ever snowman....



There has been crafting.

I have pieced the top of a tree skirt.



I VERY loosely followed the tutorial on Crazy Mom Quilts's blog for a log cabin tree skirt. Yes, very loosely LOL, but I like it. Now just to quilt it, cut it, bind it... perhaps by Christmas eve (next year!!) as I am having some tension issues with my quilting and it's driving me nuts!


And Mother has knitted me a scarf (from wool I bought to knit myself a scarf LOL).



My mother is an amazing knitter. Now Mom's knitting some charity scarves for Ruth's Scarves for Africa project. She will probaly knit 3 or 4 scarves in the time I would knit that one scarf!!

..And they will come home, dragging their fleeces behind them

It was a gorgeous day here today. So hot in fact that this particular sheep decided it was time to take her fleece off! Now, those of you who knit, don't get too excited, that wool, I've been told by the local farmer, is sadly not top of the range. I remember when we first moved here and I saw bits of wool lying on the grass, I wanted to run around collecting it with dreams of spinning and dyeing, but he said that it's not what they make jerseys out of, or good carpets even, in fact it costs the farmer more to have the sheep shawn then he gets for the fleece. Sad isn't it?

We were back at the doctor's today with my youngest, he's not been well at all, poor little might. I have just managed to pry his little body off of mine to write this, so no sewing, but lots of bonding and loving. (Thanks to Anne for reminding me that even though it's hard and you get nothing else done, you do get a chance to love them!)