New Project!!!!

Hello,

Ok well here is my new project. I'm planning on fully photo documenting it - it's a biggie - should take quite some time.

Anyway a couple of weeks ago I decided to start thinking about what colours/theme we'd put in the baby's room. I had a few ideas: Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse, and Jungle Animals. I went round a few baby shops and quickly decided on Winnie the Pooh just because there's so much stuff out there - would be easy to tell other people that's our theme and if they wanted to buy a gift they could match in.

So I've always had intentions to paint a few pictures for the baby's walls - so I started looking for Winnie the Pooh pictures. It was when Beth lent me a Winnie the Pooh picture book that I got inspiration for this project - a quilt for baby! I thought about it lying awake in bed all that night (I haven't been sleeping very well lately) and woke up the next morning ready to race to Spotlight and get some materials!

Without further ado here's the first lot of photos:

On the right is the picture I am using as inspiration - Pooh is trying to get honey out of the "hunny tree" I'm going to have fun with the bumble bees! Also I'm going to add a little honey dripping out of the hole to make it a bit more obvious what Pooh is up to!

Ok this is the most boring photo - sorry I'm documenting for myself not just for entertaining lol. This is the layout I decided on plus a few calculations down the bottom.


Now putting pen to paper! The left is my first attempt, right is the second refinement and what I'm using for the final design (bees will be added later).

Then I had to make the pattern. That meant making the picture really BIG! I spent a long time making this piece of paper but cellotaping together 10 pieces of smaller paper. The idea is I cut out these pieces and use them for the pattern.

Here are the cottons I've got - mostly donated by Amy - thanks Amy!

And here are the gorgeous fabrics - the blue will be the main background colour, the stripes are for the back and for the border, the border will also be made up of the other colour bar brown (because brown isn't pretty).

Love,
Mindy

I don't mean to brag but....

Look at our weather forecast for the next few days!!!

One Project Complete

I was going to write about my new exciting project... but then I realised I hadn't written about my last project. What I've been working on for quite some time (far too long really because I've been a bit slack) is a cardigan for our friends Jeremy and Charlotte's new baby boy Tim. I've been taking so long infact that this cardigan was started before we knew the gender and was eventually given to him around his 9 week birthday!

Anyway here it is....


It was quite fun to knit but pretty hard work to do those stitches, just hard on your fingers, lots of knitting three stitches together.

Here I've tried to show the stitch detail - it's a bit hard to see with this wool.



Anyway tomorrow I'll tell you about my new project... it's so exciting!

xxx
Mindy