Moreappletreecrafts: January 2013

Sunday 20 January 2013

Tormenting Tinkerbelle

Can you just see outside the window a little wren on the fence (bottom left of the window)? Tinkerbelle was watching out of the window and this little wren was looking at her and flitting from that fence to the other fence and on to the apple tree. He kept it up for a good ten minutes!

Not a very clear photo of him, but he's in the apple tree now - all the time looking at Tinks in the window. Actually there were two little wrens flitting about.

Mummy all the little birdies have gone now!

Altered tin made into a button box for a friend.

Saturday 12 January 2013

January is CROCHET month!

I am determined to get my stash of double knitting yarn down to a sensible level before I buy any more! So I decided that I should crochet pet blankets for the RSPCA. Well here are my first three!

Tinkerbelle is learning how to crochet - she likes to help with the yarn

One of the girls at Crochet club was making something using long stitch crochet and I remembered I had a jumper pattern from many years ago made with this stitch and had a go on this little blankie.

I used lots of small balls of yarn for this blankie and a ball of green for around the edge.

Close up

This is my favourite - same stitch as the first one I showed you, it is apparently called spike stitch and there are tutorials on line. I decided to used white (as I seemed to have a lot of white yarn) with a different colour for each other row. I did approximately pastel and bright on alternate rows, with a white border.

close up

even closer... actually this is far too nice to be a pet blanket and I might keep it to snuggle under myself!

And I STILL have a lot of double knitting yarn left - watch this space!

Sunday 6 January 2013

ATCs are back!!!

My mum and I decided that we should make an ATC each month in 2013 - it is a few years since we made any. When we met up just before the new year we made a list of 12 techniques to use, put them in a hat and drew them out next to the months. January was Flitter Glu....... so here are our ATCs for January 2013......