Costume making

Since Sam started at school it seems like there have been quite a few 'dressing up' days where he has needed costumes for some event or other. One week it was a 'cosy day' where they had to wear pyjamas/dressing gowns (Sam was excited that he also got to take in his blue crochet blanket too). 

But some have been a little trickier... like having to find a fairy tale outfit for a boy. So instead of dressing him like a knight like the rest of the boys in his class I thought he could be Hansel. Thankfully I was able to borrow some lederhosen from another mum and all I had to make was a suitable hat...

Then we had World book day and Sam's class had to dress up as characters from Julia Donaldson books. Sam decided that he wanted to be the ladybird from "What the Ladybird heard" and this time I had him helping to make his costume which consisted of cardboard wings (painted by Sam and then decorated with spots and much glitter then applied) and a ladybird mask we had in our dressing up box.

Now on to making up a Easter bonnet for the school parade...

Felt fantastic

Look at what I got in the post this morning... a copy of Laura Howard's "Super-cute felt animals"!

I can't believe that I was the lucky winner of Super Cute Kawii's recent giveaway - thank you ever so much Marceline!

Wrist warming

Over this cold and damp winter my little girl has decided that she would much prefer to wear my plain and boring black gloves rather than her pretty pink mittens. Seeing as I can't fit into her mittens my hands have been getting quite cold out so I thought I would have a try at making some fingerless gloves for myself.

I pulled out of my stash a couple of balls of Artesano Alpaca yarn that I've had for years and didn't know what to do with. Then after a quick search on Ravelry found a beautiful pattern for 'Dragon Skin Gauntlets' by Aoibhe Ni (the link to the Ravelry pattern is here). I love how they turned out, pretty, delicate and so toasty warm... however I didn't want to wreck them by wearing them outside so decided to re-raid my stash and make up a second pair.

This time I used up some pretty colours of plain old acrylic yarn and worked up these wrist warmers (based on the instructions on Lucy's Attic24 blog). Ah - lovely and snug now... only problem is that my little girl seems to be taking a liking to these gloves now!

Gruffalo update

Remember my little crochet gruffalo that I told you about back in November 2012? Well a while back a lady from Macmillan books emailed about using my photo of my mini crochet gruffalo in a new gruffalo website they were creating...

Well it looks like the website is up and live now and there is my little gruffalo in their gallery section http://www.gruffalo.com/join-in/gallery/

Tiny totoro

This little totoro has been made using a very light 4 ply yarn and so is perfect for the tiny hands of little totoro fans :-) The pattern is another wonderfully written pattern by Lucy Ravenscar and you can find the Ravelry page for it here.

Okay - I'll admit it, these photos were taken last Summer... not sure why it has taken me so long to share him with you!

Happy March everyone :-)