Cowls

My lovely sister knit me this gorgeous green Gaptastic Cowl. She was originally making it for herself, but I subtly planted seeds of doubt in her mind ("That colour is too bright for you, but it's perfectly suited to me!").
It's like wearing a warm hug.
My girl child was quite upset when I refused to share it with her, so I've quickly crocheted her a Calm Cowl. I used a few balls of Moda Vera Mousse in grey and brown on a 4.5mm hook. It's a little more dense than it should be, but that's what happens when you hook from the stash.

Autumn #2

Good weather for climbing trees

Tea Thyme

Tea Leaves Cardigan knit in Tosh Vintage Thyme.

Knit in only 35 days! Woohoo! I feel like a friggin knitting legend!

Rav'd

Autumn

I do love Autumn.
Melbourne has turned on some beautiful autumnal days this year.
The boy has been loving all those leaves.
He also loved meeting his dad for the first time ever.
I'm still processing it...

Snow Flower Wall Hanging

Before:

After:

We live in a small house, Ollie's bedroom is actually the dining room, with double glass doors adjoining the lounge. For nearly 3.5 years we have lived with brown paper on the glass doors to limit the amount of light that streams into his room in the evenings. Today I got sick of looking at that bloody stylish paper, so rifled through the stash and found a Snow Flower panel that has been waiting for the right project. I sashed the panel in some Kona in Meringue, and the binding is possibly Kona Coal.

Much nicer.

(can't believe I waited so long!!)

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I don't know about you, but when I'm making something for someone I tend to think about them a lot while I'm doing it. It's part of what I love about receiving handmade goodies made especially for me. I imagine the maker has thought about me a lot whilst creating something just for me.

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It's now been 5 months since my dad died, and I've set about working on this quilt again, made from his shirts. I started it about 3 months ago, but I needed to take a break from all that thinking.

I hope to have it ready for hand quilting in the next couple of days. Then I'm going to burn myself a cd from dad's extensive itunes library, and sing along while I quilt it. No doubt with a box of tissues at my side.

Circuit Board

My sister calls this the Circuit Board Quilt. She has her eye on it, I know. Made using blocks created for me by members of one of the first quilting bees I joined - Bee Addicted 3. It's a work in progress - I still have two more rows of four to sew on, then a border, before the top is finished.

Remember these fabrics?