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.

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!

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......

The one on the left is my mum's (she's 87) and the one on the right is mine.

These ones we made last week while still enjoying the Christmas season.  The one one the left is my mum's.

Roll on February, when I think we are using Pan Pastels.....

Cute....

What is in the parcel????

This cute little book....

Made by Miv for our Christmas book swap.... how cute is this?

The spine is beaded...

Inside - lovely papers

And a photo of me!!!!

More cute pages

Some sewn, some with tags and mini booklets

Interesting sewing things...

ICE

Another mini booklet

Old photos

Looking cute since 53..... ha ha

Guitar mini booklet

With a photo of Miv....

And the back of the book.....

Lots of pages to write on...... this will be my 2013 book.   Thanks Miv - its GORGEOUS!

Mini book swap

Rather than exchanging Christmas gifts I took part in a mini book swap with my friend.  Unfortunately I do not know what she has made me yet, because the parcel is at my parents and I have flu and can't go visit them to pick it up.  That little treat will be, hopefully, at the weekend!

Anyway - here is the one I made her....  I chose a 1950s sewing theme....

Fabric and lace flowers and a metal bird charm

I made the dressform and cotton reel from shrink plastic

I left a few pages blank for photos or journalling.

These needle cases are genuine old ones that I found in my mum's sewing kit-  scanned and made into mini booklets

 

I added a tag with handmade printed on

Christmas cards and other stuff

Mum and I made some cards using a technique with Pan Pastels in Craft stamper mag

Mum used the deer stamps she had got from her Grandson and Grand Daughter in Law

I used some of the free stamps mum had got with a recent magazine

Here is South Square's BIG DRAW which was the whole of Thornton on the wall of the gallery and everyone could draw or paint something that shows what Thornton means to them.  And here is TINKERBELLE drawn by a little girl who strokes her every morning on the way to school!

Made a little box from a DVD mum had got free with a magazine

So cute I made two!!

Oliver chases mice