Knitted gifts for Australia

 

Gifts of Amelie

At the end of last summer my youngest niece had a baby girl out in Sydney Australia, but because of the lockdown  so I've been busy knitting a few little cardigans to post to her.  I made them all the same size 18" chest so they should fit her for quite a while.

Just need to add the buttons to the blue shrug and I will be able to post these off to her as a surprise.

A little tummy time

How to make a quilted play mat.

With a bit of time on my hands I've decided to make a quilted playmat for our new grandson Edward.

So I've been looking at different designs and picking the best bits of each one, next I got out my  trusty box of fat quarters to see which ones would be the most perfect baby ones.

Now down for the fun bit, cutting out the basic backing material, also nice thick wading for the middle layer to make the mat lovely and soft,  and now the best part the multi coloured top layer.

First of all I'm going to appliqué animals and flowers onto the fat quarters, adding a little stuffing under neath to squishyness, then I've added ribbons 

   This id the finished play mat and baby 

Edward loves to have a kick and tummy time every day