As this blog is supposedly about a "mishmash of crafting" (see header), I thought I'd show you some stuff that I made earlier this year just before I started blogging.
No sniggering at the back if you please.
My knitting exploits began with two coffee pot cosies. The one on the left is entitled "Double pom pom delight" and the other one is "A posie of pompoms". Yes, I gave them names... does anyone else do that?
A toilet roll cosy complete with pompom:
I would have liked to have made one of those poodle toilet roll cosies (yes, really) but I don't think my knitting skills quite stretch to one of those. Take a look at these three little beauties which I found on the internet. Stunning (if a little odd) aren't they?
And good grief, get a load of these, a veritable feast of knitted toilet roll cosies (they're nothing to do with me, I hasten to add, all from the internet):
Anyway, I've gone off on a little tangent. Here's another knitted fancy from moi: a not to be sneezed at tissue box cosy also complete with pompoms (Mr J and P made me say that - sorry):
I tried my hand at felting - you know bunging woollen clothes in a washing machine on high and bob's yer uncle - boiled wool or felt. Here is a felt wreath that I made:
There are lots of tutorials on how to make these wreaths on the internet. I cut small squares and threaded them on a wire coat hanger which I fashioned into a circle and voila!
I also made cushion covers from felted jumpers - one from an old moth-eaten aran jumper of mine and a beige ribbed affair. The two large cushion covers were made from vintage silk scarves and the little one at the front - the flocked pink ensemble - was made from a small piece of material that I got for pennies at a jumble sale. I know what you're thinking - that there really aren't enough cushions on that sofa. You're right, I need to make lots more.
More of that flocked pink material which I used to cover the lid of a sewing stool, one of Mr J and P's family heirlooms:
From the same material this is a pear door stop, filled with a bag of rice and topped with a felted stalk and leaf!
Phew.... that's it, you'll be relieved to hear. Blimey, I was quite the busy little bee once.
More of that flocked pink material which I used to cover the lid of a sewing stool, one of Mr J and P's family heirlooms:
Have you nodded off? We're nearly done.
I made this snake draught excluder from a pair of old curtains that I picked up from a jumble:
I made this snake draught excluder from a pair of old curtains that I picked up from a jumble:
From the same material this is a pear door stop, filled with a bag of rice and topped with a felted stalk and leaf!
Phew.... that's it, you'll be relieved to hear. Blimey, I was quite the busy little bee once.
TTFN.
