Showing posts with label #Hayfield. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #Hayfield. Show all posts

Friday, 16 July 2021

A new start in Norfolk

A new life


In 1979  as a 17 yr old I decided with my friend Tina to go on an adventure, we left Essex for sunny Caister in Norfolk to work at Ladbrokes Holiday Centre, and what a summer that was, meeting lots of new friends and the holidaying public.

The work was hard and long hours but the social life was wonderful out each night drinking and dancing till late sleeping for a few hours and starting all over again.

Whilst we were there we both met our future husbands !  This year April 2021 we celebrated our 41st  wedding anniversary, over the last 11 yrs or so we've be going back to Norfolk on holiday, mostly with our 2 daughters and their husbands and an assortment of dogs.  Whilst on holiday we made the decision to retire and to move to Norfolk, hopefully this yr.

With this in mind I've been thinking about designing beach inspired sundresses, shorts, babies rompers and knitwear, to sell at craft fairs and I was also thinking of looking into local bespoke children's clothes shops to see if they would be willing to let me have a rail to sell my makes.

For the knit wear I was thinking of boat, anchor, fish and other seaside related motifs to knit onto the front of cardigans, jumpers and hoodies, also jaunty stripes.

For the sundresses and rompers I was thinking of adding appliqué suns, boats and anything to do with the seaside.  

At the moment I'm sourcing new fabric shops near to where we've moved to and I'm really looking forward to going out and buying new fabrics and haberdashery bits, and finding local craft fairs to attend.  









Don't forget you can keep up to date on our new items on our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/SunshineBabyCrafts. as soon as I've settled in there will be lots of new items to buy.
















Tuesday, 28 July 2020

Little green diamond



This weeks make is a little 16" chest round neck cardigan with a diamond patterned border and 5 lovely big buttons.

This cardigan is made from #Hayfield baby bonus extra value double knit in pale green,  it's machine washable and can be cool tumble dried.

The needles used for this cardigan were 3mm and 3 3/4 mm which make the cardigan lovely and thick and supper warm to keep baby snug. 





Front of diamond cardigan



Monday, 22 June 2020

Cuddly cardigan

Lemon yellow cardigan 

This super little cardigan is another pattern that I've been knitting for over 35 yrs, its super cuddly and  warm.  

It's knitted using #Hayfields baby bonus double knit and it's machine washable and tumble dryable which is a bonus.  

It's has 4 lovely buttons and will look lovely over a little outfit or even just over a babygro to keep babe warm.