A bit of sewing

Now the easter holidays are over and the kids back to school. Slowly my crafting mojo is coming back :)

I´ve tried out a new bag design. Once I´ve bought this handles on ebay but until now I´ve never tried to use them on a project. I think it worked out okay, although this is not going to be my new favourite design. Its nice as a knitting/crochet project bag, but the handles are nothing I would like to carry around for longer. Maybe round ones would have been better.

And again a little pillow cover for Felix. Easy, fast and always cute with nice fabric.

he loves that animal fabric as he knows all the names of the animals now

Again a surprise

Last week my dearest daughter surprised me with a sepecial visitor. In secret she invited my friend Nicola to come and visit us. This doesn´t sound so spectacular at first. BUT I "met" Nicola only online on ravelry before. We´ve talked over telephone and written on Ravelry but never met her in person as she lives near Vienna and I´m in the opposite part of Austria. So I think now you can imagine how big my surprise was when she stood on our terrace on Thursday morning.

We had a wonderful chatty, sunny and funny day and I´m grateful for this nice friend and my great daughter!

Clothilde

It seems that lately I have a thing for shawls again. The Clothilde Shawl is a very nice, easy and interesting knit. The pattern has written instructions and charts and is much easier than one might think after the first sight. Mine is knitted with Rowan Cashcotton DK (in goose...a nice grey). I had this yarn in my stash for some time. It was nice to knit and is very soft but terrible shedding on my black clothes. I really hope this is getting better with time and wear.

I´ve used exctly 4 skeins and used 5.5mm circular needles (my new Latern moon harmony needles...I love them). the shawl turned out extra large and (I think) due to the cotton content in the yarn it didn´t really block well. But I love it anyway.

Pattern: Clothilde by Kristen Hanley Cardozo
Yarn: Rowan RYC Cashcotton dk in goose, 4 skeins
Needle: 5.5mm circular needle

A wonderful surprise

Today I received a wonderful surprise from the amazong Mary-Catharine form Warm in the North.

She is a great woman who makes beautiful knitted and sewed things. And she made some beautiful and perfect little pouches for me.

The smaller one has the perfect size for my new telephone!

Thank you very much Mary-Catherine!

Time for a haircut

Lucky our Tibetien Terrier had really time to go to the hairdresser!

after the haircut

Now he looks fresh and like a puppy again :)  Maybe it doesn´t look like he has a lot of fun an this pic, but it seems he really enjoys the loss of hair.

A new milestone for me

and my sewing adventure. I´ve made the first wearable garment! As I wrote before, I´ve discovered Pip Lincolnes books. After becoming a fan of her blog, I´m now loving her books too. The books are cute and  she has a way to chat about how to make the stuff that doesn´t make me nervous. As an absolut beginner (and NOT native english speaker) I understand her sewing pattern and what to do next. And as an Australien she uses metric measurements. So absolut perfect as I don´t have to convert the measurements first.



So tatataaaa....."Cute kids pants" from the book Sew la tea do (I love that title :)

They fit perfect and have pockets! The little one is not in the mood for modeling but I´ve managed to make at least these modeled shots.

A dangerous little boy...

...he is. 2 and a half years old and always looking for a fight :) We love him with every piece of our hearts.