Kokeshi cushion

I have finished another UFO! This one dates from 2018. My April goal was to turn this kokeshi panel into a cushion. I made it originally as a humidicrib cover with fabric remnants I had bought in Japan, but when …

A donkey and a hippo

Earlier this year, LoveCrafts asked me whether I would like to try some of their products. Of course I would! My first thought was to make something for the new grandson, so after much delay and consultation with his mum, …

You are my sunshine

I have conquered another UFO, a project that has been lurking in my sewing room since early 2017. It started like this: my cousin was having a baby, so I thought I would make her a quilt. Without giving away …

Woolly donations

I decided that my charity knitting project was going to be knitted knockers (prostheses for breast cancer survivors), and that will be where my focus remains, but I was encouraged to help out at a recent craft bee at Calico …

Cottage sewing case

I started this sewing case a little over two years ago. I was on leave before starting a new job in January 2018, and I thought I would quickly whip up this whimsical sewing kit in a weekend. I had …

Octagon baby quilt

With all the attention focused on my stepdaughter and her baby in 2019, I failed to make her cousin, my husband’s niece, anything for her newest arrival. Better late than never, right? In December, I showed hubby a couple of …

More blue

I started this cushion last March. It happened because I was neatly folding my Liberty stash. We could say that Marie Kondo prompted this cushion. I was admiring the pretty blue fabrics as I folded them and was inspired to …

Blue

My favourite colour is red, but there has been a lot of blue in my life recently. I knitted a simple blue cowl from a single ball of Lang 4-ply (fingering) baby wool that I found in the sale bin. …

Little finishes

Before Christmas, I whipped up a handful of Lola zipper pouches to give away as Christmas and birthday presents. I started with the intention of making two pouches with some sort of bird or cat print for a colleague, but …

Harlequin cushion

When my grandmother moved out of her house and into a nursing home a few years ago, we had to find homes for a lot of her extra belongings. She was never much of a knitter – she much preferred …