Last week I sent off to the mitten tree some hats and mittens. 6 of each. These were made mainly with yarn left over from other projects. As it's mid spring here they will wait till fall to put them out.

 

This has used up all my odd and end yarn but I have several projects still waiting to be made up. Once I do them I am sure I will have more yarn to make more mittens come next winter.

DGD Easter dress

Each year I like to make my granddaughter a new dress for Easter and this year I also made a dress for one of her dolls from the left over fabric.

 

 

 

So here is the dress. It's blue with white polka dots. Made with butterick pattern 3350.

 

 

The doll dress is on one of my dolls that the HCC gang plays with and DGD actually has the same doll so it was easy to see how it would fit and look on her dolls.

 

Can not wait till Easter to see how the dress looks on my granddaughter

Top for DGD

Blouse I made for my DGD.

Saw the fabric while out shopping for fabric to make my DGD a Easter dress. It's hard to tell in this picture but the top is covered I tiny dots of all colours on a light-med blue background. The trim on the top are daisy's. It's a simple blouse pattern from a pattern book called 'girls style book' by Yoshiko Tsukiori and H.H. Put out by Tuttle.

Rocking chair

As you can see from the above picture I finally got around to making some new cushions for my rocking chair. This is the first piece of new furniture we purchased when DH and I got married. Most of I it was either given to us or purchased second hand. The cushions we got for this chair were starting to fall apart so in the garbage they when last fall.

The print fabric (set of charm fabrics)was purchased at the woollen mill comforter shopwhile we were in the states last spring while visiting bonners Christmas store in a nice little shop in town. The tone on tone brown used with the print on the front was also used for the back of the cushions. The pattern used is from the bhg site all people quilt and is called Another Angle Pillow.

Here is a closer look at the cushions and you can see the colours used better.  Sorry I can not recall the name of the fabric company.

Mitten tree knitting

Above is the hat/mitt set I made for the mitten tree from left over yarn used for making DGD jacket. This picture gives you a better idea of the colours of the jacket. 

The mitten tree is a Christmas tree that our regional social services home child care puts up every fall and cover with children mittens and hats for those in need. At times especially just before Christmas you might also find some other knitted items like doll blankets, knitted dolls etc that will make great gifts for children.

DGD jacket

Well I am happy to say that I have finally finished the jacket after two big crocheting mistakes. The first being that my stitches got tighter and most of the backing had to come out and a change in hook size had to be made. Second was following the directions for left sleeve while making the right sleeve.
Any way here is the pictures of the jacket.

 

 

 

The pattern is called "Granny's little Girl" The yarn is Mary Maxim Sugar baby stripes in the colour Mocha Crunch. It is sold as a kit. The yarn has soft shades of blue, brown and kind of off white/beige.
Will be a couple months before I get to see it on my DGD as her birthday isn't till beginning of April. Had fun making it.

 

The start of a blog

have no idea what I am doing as I am totally new to this but am looking for a way to show my crafting to some friends and thought this would be the way to do so. Now just need to figure out how to post info into the profile section.