Another Skirt

 I made another skirt for Little Miss.  It was a test pattern but has since been released.  You can find it here - Floreala, on Ravelry.

It's a very well written pattern.

I made a larger size than needed to give some room for growth.

Miss likes the fact it's longer.

 It's made from Bendigo Woollen Mills cotton.

 She's happy.

 I might even make one for me.

 

Kenny the Koala Kake

It was Master 4's birthday in July, but I'm pretty sure I haven't posted the pictures of his birthday cake.

Master 4 is very very keen on koalas.  So keen he has a bucket full of koala toys. 

He refers to all his koalas as "Kenny".  (He has one he decided was a girl and called "Kiki" but the rest are Kenny 1, Kenny 2, Kenny 3, Kenny 4 etc - you get the picture, we're up near Kenny 21 at the moment I think)

For his 4th birthday, after changing his mind several times, he asked for a Kenny cake. (I was anticipating a James-from-Thomas-the-tank-engine cake.)

The first stop for Kenny the Kake was the Woman's Weekly Cookbook.

The colour fur was hard to get and he ended up a light brownish colour.

I also had to make do with the cake tins I had, so he has nice big ears.

The leaves on the tree are mint leaves but they are now permanently referred to as 'gum leaves' in our house.

Large portions of the cake got frozen for later, but it's all eaten now and Master 4 assures me that it was the yummiest cake he's ever had.

He has very happy memories about this cake and every time he sees pictures he decides he's having another one for his next birthday.

(It will certainly be easier than the Transformer that he might want.)

Socks!

I got some sock yarn to dye for Bendigo and decided I had better make myself a pair of socks. These really are my first pair of socks and I did them top down, two at a time.

I'd dyed them a nice red/raspberry colour and the yarn was a pleasure to work with.
The make up is - 60%Super Merino/15%Nylon/15%Bamboo/10%Silk. It's super soft and although I had reservations about how the socks would wear at first I am actually enjoying them.

The pattern was nothing complicated an Ann Budd pattern (here on Ravelry) from one of Ann's books that Mum gave me for Christmas.
Very happy, must get back to making some more socks.

Getting crafty for school

School put out a call for squares to make blankets for "Wrap with Love".
I'm not a square knitter - in fact I still have three quarters of one sitting here, unfinished, so I decided I'd crochet some.
Then I decided that I needed to make enough for an entire blanket so that the crochet squares went together.

Thankfully Mum gave me a hand making some of the plain blue and green ones you can see.
It looks very green one end/blue the other but in real life it blended a little more in the middle.
Still, we got it done and only a few days late, which is ok because the deadline was extended anyway.

Next year I'm just going to volunteer to put them together - with Bendigo in the middle it was too much trying to make the 28 ten inch squares needed for one blanket.

Little Miss was very happy that we got to send a completed blanket in.

Hyperbolic crochet coral reef

Part of the hyperbolic crochet coral reef was on display in the shed my stall was in at Bendigo.
It was awesome from a distance and I'm sure my husband would like something this decorating the middle of our dining table (only because he's really into fish keeping at the moment), but I'm not sure I have the time or patience to make it, even though they assure me it's easy.

Some parts look easy, some look like they'd be quite fussy!
I love Nemo in the middle of it.
Maybe one day I'll make a mini one for him. Or if LittleMiss or LittleMister need a project maybe they can help.

Sew much sewing, so few pictures

I sewed many many bags to take to the Bendigo Sheep Show this year. I think I had almost 40, or something close to that.
Of course I didn't photograph most of them (ok, I didn't photograph any of them) before I left.
I was so over sewing them I was glad to be finished.
Here are some photos of them on the table at Bendigo.


I had a few left on the final day but not too many.
They are a great size for sock knitters and a pattern I came up with so that I just use two fat quarters to make them.

My very own lolly shop

All that white yarn back here became this....