A New Leaf

Evening everyone, how are we all? 

Don't you just love October? I know I do, the smell of rain, digging all the woollies out to keep you warm, hot chocolate (with Bailey's if you're offering) Craft fairs, chestnuts, bonfires, toffee apples, the colours, crunching leaves and lovely chilly (but wrapped up) walks in the woods. 

How I do love Autumn!

September has been and gone and what a lovely month it was, if you can account for me leaving my new job as wonderful - which I do! As there we're some major issues and I just couldn't stay and I'm a lot happier. Some people may think that I have made things worse for myself, but I have to do what makes me happy, not what makes other people happy!

The month was filled with my 21st, my cousins 16th, plenty of walks with Mr. B, Crochet catch up with Jess and lots of soups and sunsets, it was beautiful and I now can't wait for the remaining months of the year!

I recently went to the local yarn shop and got myself some goodies with my birthday money (only the bottom three are for me! the top are for an outstanding order) 

I love the little yarn shop, it is such a gem and the women who run it are ever so lovely and welcoming. I could spend hours in there, so could mum and Jess for that matter! 

On to the yarns shall we? 

So from top to bottom - Left to right, we have... 

Mint - Patons Fab DK 

White - Hayfield Bonus DK

Gold - Stylecraft Special DK

Copper - Stylecraft Special DK

Claret - Stylecraft Special DK

Such lovely Autumn colours aren't they? I'm in the process of making myself a scarf, hoping that I can get some use out of it before Christmas haha I know I start to late! I need to get cracking, but I've been so busy with other order for people that I just haven't had time to make anything for myself. 

The Patons Mint - I adore, it's so nice to work with and is so soft and squidgy. Although I have already bought some Stylecraft Special, I haven't yet used it so I was quite excited to start using the Autumn shades straight away! What with all the rave. 

Bit dark I know! Will post another one soon! 

Anyway - I thought that the yarn was very, very soft and smooth to start with, it feels lovely and is quite a gem to work with. However I am used to yarns a little, how to put it, less slippy? I do love it and I will use it again for sure, but at the moment I still love my Patons Fab just a bit too much, but that's just me! Non the less, I just LOVE these colours for the Autumn scarf, just can't get enough! 

Mr. B and I are off to York tomorrow to help out his eldest brother move house, they're expecting next month and I am ever so excited! Probably a little too excited! I just want to crochet so many things for them but I must try and back off a little haha I'm sure Jenny will want to make some stuff too! Ooh I just can't wait! 

I had snuggles earlier with that little cutie, he didn't used to be, he's calmed down a lot since he's got older ;) Love him though! Little Biscuit!

I'm starting to get into the October spirit now, I do love Halloween it's just my favourite time ever! Although I am quite sad as I've lost my Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury, one of my all time favourite authors and I just can't find it anywhere! It's such a great read and was really looking forward to be reading it again this Autumn! I shall just have to find another one somewhere.

Toffee apple's and this new book (I have had it on my shelf for about 3-4 years and only just picked it up! Doing the Off the Shelf challenge this year with Goodreads!) And it is quite good, I'm not usually that keen on Crime books but, since Mr. B bought me that one for my Birthday last year I am starting to get into them. Needed something remotely Halloween-ish to read! I like to go by the theme of the months! 

In other news, the other blanket is coming along nicely and should hopefully be ready! 

I have got 60 / 100 Squares so far and only need to do 20 more of each colour - though I had to go out and buy another Mint and I'm starting to think I'm going to have to do the same for the Lemon. Damn, don't think I'll get 20 with what I have left but we'll soon see! 

For now though, I must crack on with some more squares! 

Much love as always, 

Happy Crafting!

Large MP3 Case

Hey everyone!

It's just a quick post this morning as I have a current WIP that I need to try and get finished before this Saturday! Ahh! If you've read my latest post, you will know that I am on about the blanket I am doing for my mum, I was originally doing 190 squares but don't know whether to do 125 now, I shall soon see if I have enough time! I will be doing a post later on today about it. 

A couple of weeks back I made an mp3 case for my music player, do you remember? If not take a look! So Mr. B decided he wanted one for his and of course, I had to make one! He chose this lovely Emerald colour that I already had at the bottom of my wool bag (Monsters Inc - Disney reusable bag - Excellent use for everything! I use them to store my cake stuff in too and for college!)

The wool was Hayfield Bonus DK in Emerald and was lovely to work with! :) 

I'll be honest, as the MP3 is a lot bigger than mine it took me quite a while to get the same length and width for each side (I didn't count them like a numpty!) Using a 4mm hook, I then just kept going until it reached the right size, then got the front and the back and darned it together :) I have since realised that I should of probably crocheted the sides together using a single stitch, but hey! I'm still learning! ;) 

Needless to say that he loves his new case for his MP3 and has requested some more, should this one get damaged in anyway, after all his MP3 was not on the cheap side, but he loves his music and only wants the best ;) 

Will post more later!

Happy Crafting! 

Old Pillow's

Evening everyone!

Thought I would do a quick post, it is something I made in the past!

So this was a pillow I made a while back, couple of years maybe? That I made for Sam, he's an avid Guitarist and owns an old fashioned 1970's HH amp, he's also a big fan on T.Rex. 

So I decided to copy his amp and made it into a Pillow for his birthday! It was a surprise and he loved it :) 

It was just black material for the amp, then all the other bits sewn on like the buttons and lettering were felt. All hand sewn, as well as the pillow case itself. I did make this after the T.Rex pillow and the case is removable, as I added on some pop studs.

I also made another Pillow before the HH one, which was based around the band T.Rex which is one of his favourite, hence why he has HH amps ;) He does love the amps though and the pillows haha 

The pillow is looking a bit worse for wear now, it had a drink spilt on it and at the time, I didn't make the cover removable so it's all stitched up. I sewed on the letters out of leopard print felt and sewed the whole pillow cases together by hand :) it was like a white silt material with multicoloured shiny stars on. 

I will do another post later of things that are more current! 

But for now, I need to get some crocheting done!

Happy Crafting!