Wonderful surprises

Yesterday I got my first customer! Yes you hear right. My dearest sister asked me, if I could sew a bag and a pouch for her friends birthday and she would pay for it. She decided to buy from me instead from a shop to surprise her good friend with a handmade gift. Isn´t she the best sister in the world? And now my mother asked me if I could make a bag for her friends birthday too! Oh I´m so happy. I´ve already started sewing the bags. The pouches are missing because I´ll have to drive in the next town first to get some zippers. But I have some time, they´ll need the gifts in mid march.

Can´t get this song out of my head...

A little trip to the land of cross-stitching

This morning I wrote that I received some books today. One is the emboiderie book called 
"rot - Kleine Stickideen" . It´s a nice little book, mostly with pictures and nearly no text or explanations but a lot of cross stitch and free embroidery pattern. It comes with a little piece of fabric, a needle and some thread so one can start immediatly.

First I´ve tried to stitch a squirrel with backstitching but it turned out terrible.

Than I remembered that in my youth I had a period when I loved to do cross stitching. I searched a nice motive and now I´m trying to make the russian doll. I´m using 2 strands of the thread and so far it is ok. I´m not sure if I will ever finish it but it seems to work much better than the back stitch and french knots and things like that.

Monday morning

Winter came back over night and it started to snow again. Good for the people who want to go skiing and good for the tourismn. But still I´m looking forward to spring.

today no mountains are visible

After one week of  holidays the older kids are back to school and I´m also back working.

But look what the postman brought today. Something to brighten up my day and a reward after a busy day.

The hook case

Yesterday I´ve sewed the hook case. It turned out exactly how I´ve wanted it. For this roll I used some cotton fabric for patchwork. It is much lighter than the other fabric and this way it was much easier to sew.

For batting I used again leftovers from the patchwork blanket and this time I´ve sewed it direct onto the front piece (the orange one) so not so much fussing around like with the other two cases. The hairgum closure also worked better this time as I found a smaller hairband and didn´t had to cut it. Every hook has her own slot and the roll is soft and pretty.

I love it :)

A (stylish) home for my sock needles

Finally a needle roll ONLY for my DPN. I prefer to knit with DPN whenever possible  and therefor have quite some. Now they have a pretty and safe place to rest and wait until they will get back to work.

Fabric is the same as from the black/natural coloured bag and from IKEA. It is not perfect for the needle roll as it is a bit to stiff. As batting I´ve used leftover fleece from the patchwork blanket. Not perfect either but it worked (somehow).

The closure I´ve tried to copy from Mary-Catherine it just didn´t work properly. Maybe next time I´ll get it right.

The size is fine and all found a place. So only a needle roll for the circulars and one for the hooks are missing.

And a little pouch for notions or just because I had some leftover fabric in the right size for the zipper I had left. One can never have enough pouches, don´t you think so?

Some crochet blankets

 The large granny square blanket out of Noro Kureyon sock yarn in greens. I´m not sure if I´m going to add an other skein or call it done. It has already a nice size. Until now I´ve used 6 skeins of Noro.

This is Davids birthday blanket. Out of Noro Furin for the green/blue squares and crochet together and the border I´ve crochet with Mirasol Qina in natural white. The size is for one (smaller) person. Maybe I´ll get some modelled pics once he received his present.