Play Tepee

For Christmas this year I made a tepee for Oscar. It took me a few evenings to muddle out a plan and another week or so to sew it up during nap times. I wrote down a crude set of instructions on how to make one for a couple of friends, and thought I’d share here in case there’s anyone following my exploits that wants to have a go. The instructions are rough, but hopefully are enough to give an understanding of the process.

 

Cut chenille baby blanket

The great thing about Facebook due groups, (and the internet in general) is the amazing things people find and share in them. I just finished making one of these for the little bun.

http://www.danamadeit.com/2008/07/tutorial-faux-chenille-blanket.html

(Actually ended up following this tutorial, as I liked the idea of using flannelette for the back)

http://www.aestheticnest.com/2010/08/sewing-heirloom-cut-chenille-baby.html

I’m super happy with how it turned out, what an awesome idea. Extremely labour intensive (by my lazy standards) but the moment it comes out of the dryer is totally magical.

Toddler Tee-Shirts

Poor neglected blog. Here I am again. A quick recap of life since March 2011:
I retired into full time mummyhood, Baby Oscar was born and has been growing ever since, I had an unexpected medical adventure which left me banned from driving for a year, we sold our house and moved to Christchurch, now expecting baby number 2. And I guess that’s about all :)
So, throughout all that I’ve had a had a heap of projects on the burner. Some made it to completion and others are still in boxes in the garage, or crammed in bags under the couch. One of my more recent experimentations was with appliqué and fabric painted toddler tee-shirts and sweat shirts. Here they are:

I had fun, but I’m sick of them now. I might revisit this project if I have some more ideas of cute boys shirts.

Another Booties Fest

Something tells me my brain is going through baby fever. I wonder why :o)
Taking a small break from booties for a while though. 3 sweet cardigans on their way now, boy do they take longer than booties.

Crochet Companion Cube

I spent the last week making this for my dad for fathers day. One crocheted companion cube. I took inspiration from a couple of other peoples takes on the companion cube:

One here: http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=234375.0
A knitted one: http://knittedcompanioncube.blogspot.com/2007/12/knitted-companion-cube-assembly.html
And another crocheted: http://www.joystiq.com/2007/12/27/today-in-joystiq-december-27-2007/

So I decided to come up with my own pattern for one. Mine is a miniture (About 15cm x 15ccm x 15cm) , as I only had 4 days to complete it and I’m not the fastest crocheter on the block. Anywho… here’s the result, and a link to my pattern in PDF form:

Companion Cube Pattern – Typo Fixed (Updated 21-04-2013)

Oh, and my pattern is loosely based off this easy crochet cube pattern. (Converted to work from the corners out rather than starting with the base face and working up)
http://www.crochetspot.com/how-to-crochet-a-cube/

Kiwifruit Beanie

The fuzzy brown/grey wool used in the Hayley-Bear hat got me thinking about kiwifruit so here’s my next attempt at a themed beanie. I haven’t decided if I like it or not yet and I may have to have another go at capturing the likeness of the kiwifruit.

It’s hard to give a pattern for this one as it involved random choices of stitch, colour and spike-itude and I didn’t write anything down as I did it.

Thankyou to balloonie the balloon for modelling this creation for me.

UPDATE: Attempt #2 now included. No pattern for this either.

Hayley-Bear Beanie

Just finished a teddy bear beanie for Hayley. It was super fun to make, I hope it fits!

Brown wool is : Naturelle Chunky 14 ply 100% pure NZ wool.
Pink wool is : Mill Shop, Quick Knit 45% acrylic, 45% wool, 10% mohair. (feels like plastic when crocheting though….)

Approx Size : Small-Medium Women’s.

Pattern Follows:

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Non bootie crochet projects

Over the past couple of months I’ve been trying my hand at non-bootie crochet projects aswell. These are mainly still baby related as they’re nice, small projects that keep my interest long enough to get finished. I’ve also made a couple of grownup hats. Some projects I’ve made from free patterns on the interwebs (URLs for these are listed in the description for each item), the rest were crochet-as-you-go sorta things.

Booties Galore

So, turns out I’m pretty addicted to crocheting booties. Here are my latest creations (excl. the wicked tetris booties I made, accidentally gave those away before taking a photo of them…)

My first commissioned crochet project

Recently, I’ve become addicted to crochet. It all started after watching an episode of Firefly. Jane recieved a present of  a knitted orange hat with ear flaps. Suddenly I had an urge to knit. So I started knitting a really ugly brown scarf. It still isn’t finished and that was months ago. I couldn’t stand the monotony of knitting. I tried spicing it up by having a go at knitting a hat on circular kneedles. I finished that hat but it wasn’t a particularly fun process. And with that my affair with knitting was over. But I still wanted to make some wicked woollen clothing and accessories. So I decided to learn to crochet.

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