Sewing Sunday and Monday!

I've spent a restful weekend sewing. I finished a rather boring coffee coloured jersey dress and then decided to liven it up with some crochet. I've been planning a top like this all summer and it jst didn' happen until now. I've also dug out some of my more autumny clothes (from the suitcase in the loft) and given them a wash and lne dried them. Mental note to self whilst ironing, not to make anything else in brown. I also made a rather cute little bag for a good friend of mine at work, who has been very encouraging recently and deserves a little treat. I'll post the picture tomorrow, after I have given here the bag - just in case she reads this blog.

Knitted items and future plans

Here's a quick knit cowl that I made last week. My mum bought me the yarn when she was staying with my brother in Bovey Tracey (he lives there). So whilst mum was staying with me I knitted it up so that she could see what it had become.

As son has broken his big toe, he can't walk far so we aren't going anywhere this Bank Holiday weekend, so I'm planning to use the time to finish off some projects that are in progress. I'm off to get the sewing machine out as soon as I have finished doing this.

I'm also knitting a rather lovely pair of fingerless gloves from the new Rowan book. They have intarsia roses on the arms, here's a sneak preview of the first glove.

black top

Well it's been a while, and I can't even claim to have been very busy crafting but I'm starting again with this rather simple project. I had a plain black long sleeved hooded t-shirt that I made last year. It was very boring so I transformed it. I used an image of my wonderful boots (thanks Ren) transferred onto iron-on image paper and material and sequined lace from an old bolero that was wonderfully pretty but didn't actually fit. The lace went round the hood and the cuffs and I frayed the dark burgundy lining fabric and transferred the image onto it before sewing to the top and embellishing with beads. I even changed the sides of the top with some chiffon to make a handkerchief hemline.



and a close up of the front