Dining room runner # 2

This runner was made to match the one on the dining table. I love how it looks on top of the wine rack.



The top was made with left over fabric from the table runner, the backing was from some stash. The wadding was a few scraps of wadding I have in my bits of wadding box. Happy days!! No extra money spent!

I think I might try and attack the scraps box next. the thing is so full the lid can barely close!

A finished WIP.

Last year sometime I decided to make some nice table runners for our formal dining room. So I cut up the fabric, sewed it all together, and began hand quilting the one for the dining table. I put it aside to work on other projects, and the runner ended up in one of my WIP box.

This is one of my WIP boxes.



Today I finished that table runner and it now sits proudly on my dining table.



Yay for me!

Hi ho! Hi ho! I can't make my mind up you know!

Today I was planning on working on a UFO from one of the boxes I have filled with them! I pulled out a table runner I had begun ages ago, and began working on that.



My fingers have some dermatitis from washing dishes, and there was only so much of the needle jabbing the splits in my fingers I could take. So I moved on to a somewhat safer activity.





Crocheting squares. :)

Summer Garden Granny Square

Today I worked from my first crochet pattern. It was a very simple and clearly written out one by Attic 24. I'm so proud of how it turned out, and I even learned to bobble stitch as part of it!!



I'll make as many as I want of these, and make a small blankie, probably for a dolly or something. Then as I get better and more confident, I'll move on to more of the stuff I REALLY want to make. :)

A "must do" done!

A few years ago MIL and FIL gave me a Cath Kidson book filled with projects and some fabric for a little handbag.
Today I decided to put it together. I didn't do it exactly how Cath instructed, but it's still pretty close. I flicked through the book, and there are tonnes of really awesome ideas in there that I can use up stash on.

G'day Granny!

Look what I can do!!!

A Granny square!!

No more rattling around...

In the bottom of my knitting basket!! My needles and hooks now have a nice little home, made entirely by scraps and leftovers I had. That tropical print is so cute! I'm glad I found it.

*Please excuse the upside down photos, but I blogged this from my phone. Not much control there!! :) 

I've made a start!

.... on learning to crochet! A band of single stitch. It took me a while to get the hang of it, but I did it! :)

Mop's Quillow

I'm so proud of this one!! :)
This was supposed to be finished at Christmas, but it wasn't. Never mind. It was only a few days after - and she doesn't mind!! :)