Looong absence

Firstly, I must apologise for the lengthy time away. It's not that I haven't been making loads of things, but I just haven't got around to putting them on here.

We had a lovely holiday with my family in the holidays. The monkeys love visiting their cousins and catching up.

We managed a trip to Taronga Zoo, can you believe this is the view from the Giraffes?

I was so lucky to be able to visit a good friend and fellow crafter Jo. We went to the Craft Depot, bought fabric and then went to her place to sew. That's a great day on holiday. Here I am at her sewing machine making a bag.

The monkeys had a wonderful time playing at her house.

I realised too that I have had this blog for one year! I must have to have a giveaway for that. I will have a think and put something in the next post.

It's good to be back.

Mother's Day

I hope all the mothers out there had a lovely mother's day like me.

My seven year old daughter made me breakfast in bed. She prepared peanut butter toast, a glass of lemonade and lollies on the side of my plate. How cute. I wonder if this is what she would like everyday?

Wedding

We had a fantastic time on the weekend at my sister in laws wedding.

The girls were flower girls and were very sweet. Who knew that a four year old could stand still for that long at the front of a church!

Here is the bride.

And here is my family Chris, me, Holly and Emma.

The dresses turned out very well. Emma managed to rip the tulle off her skirt while climbing under the tables at dinner time, but oh well. What can you do, she was having a great time. Holly danced with all the adults until the last song at 12.00am. She even pulled out the air guitar!!

Flower girl dresses

My sister in law is getting married next week and the girls will be flower girls.

I have been making their dresses and a dress for my niece. She will be christened on the day too. They have been keeping me busy with not much else crafting going on.

But I did make an order at the Fat Quarter Shop. A very big luxury for me. Once you have converted the currency and added the postage I don't think it is very cheap, but they have the most fantastic fabric. I fell in love with this and bought the layer cake and then bought a little charm pack of this.

I made this bag from the charm pack. I lined it with yellow gingham.

Flower Bag and Scarf

Here are the photos of the crochet bag. See how it looks a little saggy? Hopefully some fabric to line it will sort it out.

My husband decided that I needed to knit something for him. I think he is feeling neglected on the knitting front. So I bought some of this yarn as it has cashmere in it. It's really soft and lovely. Great masculine colours too.

I used a pattern from the Last Minute Knitted Gifts book. I just love this book and wish that we could get some wonderful yarn like they can get at Purl in Manhattan. (sigh)

Oh well one day I will have to go there and buy an enormous pile!!

The pattern that I based this on was the Child's Rainbow Scarf. I wanted to do a mistake rib scarf and this one was the easiest one to find. I added 8 stitches to make it a little wider as the yarn is not as chunky as the one in the book.

Busy Times

It's the last week of the school term and on Thursday afternoon we will be on holidays. This part of the year always seems to rush by so quickly.

I have finished the crochet bag, but somehow forgot to take some photos of it. I love it, but the yarn that I used is very stretchy and it feels like it hangs down around my knees. I am going to line it with fabric to stabilise it (I hope).

I have finished another little bag from here . I just love how cute and little it turned out. I am now making on for my sister too.

So quick and easy!

New Phone

I'm not one usually for gadgets and electronic things, but I have a new phone which I love.

It's a iphone and you can do everything on it (it would be nice if it made a cup of tea though!).

I've been working on a new bag from here. I think the colours are fantastic. This is how much I have done so far.

I decided to use Patons Smoothie DK. I found wonderful colours and it wears very well. I'm not an expert on crochet and found the pattern really easy to use too.