Sewing Sunday and other things

After going round the shopd on Saturday (son needed new tracky bottoms)I was inspired to make a white suntop/dress. White isn't really my colour, but there's lots of it in the shops and I had a nice piece of white embroidered, seqined cotton in my stash so I decided to use it. I have been thinking about making a top crochet straps for a while any excuse to practise my crochet skills, and I had some pewter coloured Rowan shimmer leftover from a scarf I made as a christmas present.

Saturday night I found out the crochet necklace pattern that I wanted to adapt and began the cochet

Sunday morning the chickens woke me up nice and early - I didn't see it this way at the time!!. I made some bread (I usually do this on Saturday but the shopping trip prevented me doing it) and cut out the material.

Then went for an eight mile run whilst the bread was rising. I'm still running very slowly, eight miles took me 1 hour 20 minutes. When I came back I settled down to sew.

The simple sundress soon came together and after trying it on and making adjustments, I was ready to attach the crochet.

and here is the finished item, hanging up and ready to wear.
The picture doesn't really do it justice - I must get one of me wearing it!

Crochet

This is my first real blog. I have thought all week about what I am going to blog first and until ysterday it was something very different to this, but then the weather warmed up and I felt all summery and the blog needed to be about my new summer crocheted cardi.




Here it is spread out flat as its crocheted in a pentagon starting with a five petal flower,

I only taught myself to crochet in January and so I am very proud of it. The yarn was Debbie Bliss Cashmerino chunky which I bought in a sale last year to knit a repacement for a cable sweater that I had carelessly felted. But the new knitted sweater didn't happen and the yarn called out to be made into a crochet cardi. By the way I made a bag out of the original felted sweater and of course it goes very well with the new cardi. The bag is lined with some material I had left over from a shirt I made last summer.




I had a new dress for my birthday which also goes well - infact it was the inspiration for the cardi. I wore it today with a pink crochet scarf I made earlier in the year and a string of 'pearls' that I strung together several years ago.

Me

well it's my birthday today and I have finally got this blog going. This is a picture of me. I haven't got many pictures yet but as i got a new phone with camera and internet access, I'm expecting to be able to take lots now and upload them on this blog.