This hill was our home for the morning! Our sledge was well used.
Doesn’t our village look pretty from up here?
Sally
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Sorry for the lack of posting over the last month. I’ve been designing and organising some craft kits to sell, watch this space over the next couple of weeks for some sneak previews.
Back to the crafting I have actually been doing. I’ve subscribed to Simply Crochet and have been steadily working my way through the patterns in their first issue. I don’t think there is a pattern I didn’t like in the magazine!
Firstly my little dragon:
It’s not quite finished yet, I need to add some wings and some horns to it, but I’ve run out of fabric glue at the moment so I’ll be finishing it once that arrives.
I’ve also crocheted a granny squares beanie hat from another pattern in the magazine – here it is beautifully modelled by Daisy.
And then finally, a chunky cowl, finished just in time for the chilly weather that has had us shivering. By the time I took this photo Daisy had got fed up with modelling:
She refused to come out until I promised her that I wouldn’t take a photo of her face, so here is a photo of just the cowl.
The cowl was really great to crochet, although using a hook fatter than my thumb took a little bit of getting used to. The best bit is that it grew so quickly, I managed to finish it within a couple of days, oh yes and the fact that it’s so warm I think I’m going to live in it until at least April!
Anyone else completely hooked on crochet at the moment?
Sally
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I thought I’d share more things I’ve made from Decembers Crafty Creatives box
Firstly here are the bath bombs that were made from the kit. I decided to double the amount of mix to make 2 at the same time, but I think I may’ve misjudged slightly as I managed to make 3. The red star is a cookie cutter I had in my cupboard, and I just packed it tightly into that too and found it worked really well.
I can also report that they fizz beautifully around the bath, and smell divine! A big thumbs up from me for this kit, easy to use it works.
I have also been crocheting with the eyelash wool. Snowballs!!!!
I found the wool a bit tricky to crochet with at first as it’s quite hard to see the stitches in-between all of the fluffy wool, however I persevered and am really pleased with the results.
For those who want their own snowballs, here is the pattern (UK notation):
Row 1: Ch2
Row 2: 6DC in 2nd Chain from hook
Row 3: 2DC in each stitch
Row 4: *1DC, 2DC in next stitch* repeat to end
Row 5: *1DC, 1DC, 2DC * repeat to end
Row 6-8: DC in each stitch
Row 9: *1DC, 1DC, DC decrease* repeat to end
Row 10: *1DC, DC decrease* repeat to end
Fill with stuffing
Row 11: DC decrease 3 times
Leave a long thread, cast off and then sew through the remaining stitches and pull tight. Sew a long loop for hanging on the tree.
They’re pretty quick to make, so you’ve got plenty of time to whip up a few before Christmas Day.
Sally
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I’d seen reviews of Crafty Creatives boxes on other blogs and had to see for myself if it was as good as they had said – the answer is YES! I received my box yesterday, eagerly ripped off the packaging and this is what I found:
Wow, lots of things to play with.
I couldn’t wait to dig in, and with the help of my daughter we started on the bath bomb making. Daisy and I are completely obsessed by the shop Lush, and so to make our own bath bombs was a great treat. The bath bombs are currently in their moulds – photos to follow.
I also decided that as the string of beads was so pretty, I had to make a simple necklace by just threading the beads onto some stretchy jewellery string.
I had enough beads left over to make Daisy a bracelet too.
There were a couple of glass heart nuggets in the box:
I had plans for these – firstly I found a couple of photos I liked (one of me & one of my hubby) , and printed them off quite small. I placed a glass heart on top of each photo and drew around it, next step was to glue the photos to the back of the hearts with decoupage glue, and then when it was dry, I gave it another coat of glue to seal the back.
Sorry not a great photo, we both look a bit lopsided – the difficulties of taking photos through shaped glass!
I think my hubby may get these for Christmas, beautifully wrapped in the lovely organza bag that they came in.
Right I think that’s enough for now. I’ll be back soon with how the bath bombs turned out & what I’ve made with the rest of the lovely box of goodies.
Sally
xxx
Just thought I’d share a decoration I made for my Christmas tree
I used a wire-jig to create the base of the tree in 0.6mm silver plated wire and then used a thinner wire to wrap around the outside of the tree, adding small jingle bells as I went. I really love the silver wire against the green of my tree.
Each year I try to make at least one decoration for the tree. My aim is to one year have the whole tree decorated in homemade things. Just for fun, here are a few of the handmade things already on my tree.
And a couple made by my children when they were younger:
Anyone already got a completely homemade tree?
Sally
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