Sewing room

New sewing room

The  move to Norfolk I had 3 stipulation for our new house.

1)  a large kitchen as I love cooking and baking and intend to make all my own bread, cakes, pies and jams.

2) a large lounge for cosy nights by the fire

3)  a sewing room, so I didn't have to constantly pack everything away every night

So with this in mind I've been looking for ideas for the perfect sewing room

I need a large sturdy cutting table, a sewing machine table and comfy chair, lots of storage for materials and yarns, hanging space for dresses, trousers and knitwear, shelves for folders and books, racks for cotton reels and ribbons, and pin board for ideas and draws for scissors cutting blades and pens pencils and tapes.  Theses are a few ideas I found 

I love this organised cotton reel / tools board

I particularly like this idea to keep my materials nice and crease free

I will defiantly utilise some of these ideas into my sewing room. 

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

Babys first christmas

 

With news of the new arrival due the first week in December I decided to make 2 christmas jumpers

Both of these jumpers are made in double knit from #JamesCBrett, sourced from #Deramore

This was the first one a lovely deep blue to show off the snowman

and this one in seasonal red and white.

I cant wait to see the new baby in these adorable little jumpers.

Special request babies blanket

 A few weeks ago I had a special request for a blanket with a special motif on it.

As I's never seen the motif I had to design it myself!

The blanket is made from #Patons double knit in Green, with Gold and black motifs, it is a large pram or cot blanket size and when it was finished off it went to its new home.

Little grey hoodie

Little Grey Hoodie

Earlier this year we had a surprise announcement that we were going to be grandparents, so I started looking at the knitting patterns I have and decided to make this lovely hoodie.

Its made in double knit using pale grey from #JamesCBrett, yarn from #Deramore and white buttons.

Even though its made from double knit the Pattern is so thick it looks like Aran.

I cant wait to see this on the new baby.

Christmas comes early

As a special request I've started making my favourite project Christmas jumpers earlier this yr. This jumper is made from #Patons Fab DK cream double knit, and the features knitting using #The Women's Institute premium yarn for the face and antlers and for the eyes and nose I used #Patons Fab DK

This is the front being worked