New Niece

Hello Blogland! I'm back! I have still been creating I just fell out of blogging about it! Thought it was about time I added something though and I found these photos in my drafts that I never posted. They are now quite old (apologies) as they are things I made for when my niece was born a year ago now! There does time go?!

I thought you may like to see them though. 

First up is the cake I decorated to celebrate the birth of my neice, the cake was my sister's top tier of her wedding cake that has been in the freezer never since so that made it extra special.

I loved decorating it as it was girly and usually I have to do boy cakes for my nephews!

I had great fun piping that grass and making flowers, butterflies and baby clothes etc.

Next up was the blanket I crocheted for her this is not the best photo to show it off, but difficult t get the full thing is a photo!

Here's a close up of all the different stitches. I didn't have a pattern I just made it up as I went along. Love these colours, when I started it I didnt know if it was going to be a girl or boy so the colours were good for both. I only just managed to get it finished in time luckily it was only a pram or cot size blanket!

And here is the bobble edgeing that I did around it to finish it off.

Really pleased with how it turned out and my niece has got a lot of use from it which is good!

I will be back soon with my niece's 1st Birthday cake and something I made for her which will be a bit more up to date!

Thanks for looking! xx

Baby Blanket and Canvas

There has been two new additions to our family recently, two little boys within 3 1/2 weeks of each other, making me an aunty to 3 boys now!!

So as you can imagine it's been a bit busy with the babies and creating for them too! 

Thought it was about time I showed you some of the creations so I will start with a couple of things I made for my sisters baby.

First up is the crocheted baby buggy blanket I made for my sisters baby, we didn't know if it was a boy or girl so went with either colours!

My sister chose the colours and pattern, I loved this stitch, it was quick and easy and looks great!

I started it in February and just finished it a few days before my nephew arrived in the second week of April.

 Secondly my sister bought some fun material with dogs all over it for the nursery so I decided to copy it to make a canvas to go on the wall, as the walls are all white so this is what I came up with!

I drew the dogs on card as they are quite big on the material and I needed to fit more on and then I painted their coats on!

Back soon with more! xx

208 Squares!

I thought it was about time I showed you my finished crocheted granny square blanket I made for my nephew! What a lot of squares, yes there was 208 of them!! I really enjoyed making them but I made them all and then joined them together which took a long time! maybe it would of been quicker to join them as I made it?! I loved how it turned out in the end though!

I did 3 different colour borders around it.

My little nephew seemed to like it too! It had to go on his bed straight away and it's still there now!!

I'm now making myself a granny stripe blanket, which is really easy and quick too!

Right better go I've got a layout to make and some packing to finish as I'm going to Devon for a few days, hope this weather holds out!
Back Soon! xx

Crocheted Scarf

Just popped in to show you the scarf  I crocheted for my Brother-in-law for his Birthday. I found a pattern on Pinterest for it, not that there is much pattern as you make it as long and wide as you like!

 I made a little label to pin on it!! I picked colours I thought my BIL would like and made it really quite long, (I lost count of how many chains I did!) as he is tall and quite thin as he likes it thin!!

 It was a lovely quick and easy project to make!

Back with more soon! xx