{quilt} while you're ahead

116/2011 ** felted bangles **

Pattern from here

Brilliant stash-busting easy project.

I dare you to be able to stop at one.

27/2011 ** felt flask cover **

Today is my sister in law's birthday.

She's a cool chick.  She's been working really hard for the past five years to earn a teaching degree, whilst holding down a full time job and looking after her family.  Now, not contented with all this she's also becoming a forest school practitioner.  Unstoppable.

We wanted to give her a present that was useful and pretty and a little bit home-made.... So Mr M came out with the flask idea (for those cold days in the woods surrounded by muddy children) and I dressed it.

Because you can't beat circles of bright colours and big stitches.

* 113 *

- I can't believe I've been absent for so long.

- I ran the 'run' yesterday (it wasn't a 'race' it was a 'run'... big difference)

 

It was gruesome.

And wet

 

very wet and windy.

I felt good I've done it. Mentally.

Physically... well... next question?

- Yesterday it was also No 2's birthday party:

 

a testoreone fuelled/petrol-head kind of party.

9 boys, 9 go-karts.  A lot of noise.

- And I forgot the cake.

- I didn't leave it at home.

- I didn't leave it in the boot of the car.

- I simply didn't make it.

- I didn't even think about making it.

I - FORGOT - TO - BAKE - MY - SON - A - BIRTHDAY - CAKE.

Now if you'll excuse I'm going to take my lactic acid-laden limbs and go and cry in a corner.

  
 

which one...

do...

you...

like...

best?

If any?

agenda

1) Thank you all for the birthday wishes.  Some of you for presents too.  You're too kind.  I've discovered two more people who share my birthday... that brings the total to 6.  Don't know why but it feels weird.  I know it shouldn't, after all there are more than 365 people in the world so it shouldn't come to a surprise... but still...

2) I've re-discovered blueberries and banana milkshakes (actually I use natural yoghurt instead, as suggested by my wise sister in law)

 

The colour on its own is divine.

 

And it goes so well with the handblown glass... it's the small things, people, that make me happy.

3.  I've been making 'thingies'.  I've got a table at a friend's school's fete in a couple of weeks and I wanted something small that kids can buy with their own money/that might attract kids attention.

 

What do you think... will they work?

 

Just... "don't get them wet, and never feed them after midnight"...

(name that movie!!)

felted knitting basket

My latest felting adventure

to hold my current knitting project

and other things

WIPs

I've joined Amanda's star quilt-along... c'mon do it too, there's still time!

No 3 moved to a 'big boy's bed' on Sunday... this made rethink his quilt

And what are you working on? Do share!!

ain't nobody here but us chickens... part 2

this little one is a hand felted cousin of the previous chicken

they share identical genetic backgrounds (i.e. same size template) and the proof is in the feet

and in the spaced out, slightly vacuous expression

Although this one was blessed with emerald colour eyes, quite a rarity in the chicken world.

Because of the hardship of a hand felted life this specimen didn't grow to the same size, in fact we can safely say hand felting stumps chicken growth by a third.

Bet you didn't know that.

ain't nobody here but us chickens...

a stripy chicken

 

with crooked feet

and a fixed expression.  All those stripes drove him mad.

Believe it or not it's a college assignment.

that was the week that was part 2

Last Saturday I was fortunate enough to attend a brilliant Nuno felting course, here.

We learned heaps and I came home with two scarves I'm totally happy with (not something that happens all the time... you know that one... you go on a day course and come home totally confused but full of misguided enthusiasm with 'things' that get hidden into drawers till you move home and then get thrown away?)

But I am seriously buzzing with ideas.

The combination of fabric (silk chiffon in this case) and merino rovings... offers endless possibilites.

The scarf is soft and strong. And it drapes beautifully.

My second attempt was something light and airy and really girly

a white little number full of gathered spots like this one.  Great to wrap around your neck when you want something small and frilly.  A whisp of a scarf.

Sometimes a girl needs whispy.

Especially when she's surrounded by this:

The demolition work on the kitchen has began.  Please think of me.