Knits and Pieces

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Jayden's 2nd Birthday

Jayden turned 2 this week! He started his day off with some lovely strawberry jam on toast. A boy needs his energy to start the day.

The we went down to the strand waterpark. Jayden was happy to play on the slide, cargo net and stairs.

Then they turned the water on!

It was all fun and games until the huge water bucket tipped out all over him.....

Then we went to the play park, where Jayden had lots of fun filling up his new bucket with the shovel in the sand. Then he would tip it out and start all over again.

Happy Mummy and Baby!

Jayden had a lot of fun playing on this odd looking contraption.

He went down the slide more times than I can remember.

We came home and Jayden wanted to put sugar cane mulch on the garden and in his new bucket!

Another new use for his bucket, filling it up with water and tipping it out.

See how much fun it is?

Then he had birthday cake and even blew out the candles.

Then he ate it all up. :)

Sunday, October 11, 2009

My Sister Joanne AKA Joannabell on Ravelry, crocheted a Multi Coloured Blanket for Jayden's 2nd birthday. As a thank you present for her, I crocheted a bag for her. I finally finished sewing on the buttons last night and I gave it to her. She loved it!

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Beading and pondering

Having recently splurged on some lovely pearls from the States, I thought that I'd better use them up. So, I sat down last night and made some stitch markers. These are slated for gifts and I love that they were relatively quick to whip up, once I settled on a design. These are different to the first few sets of stitch markers that I made, because my skills have developed. These have a jump ring on top as opposed to a loop of tigertail. The jump rings will fit 5-5.5mm needles.

I've recently discovered that I really love beading. I love the sense of accomplishment. It's almost as good as the buzz I get from knitting and crocheting! So I've been thinking lately that I might open up an Etsy store. What do you think? Would you buy my stitch markers?

These ones are made with seed beads, pink swarovski crystals and cultured pearls with crystals.

These ones are made from seed beads, crystals and cultured pearls with crystals.

I've also made a couple of bracelets.

This one is made of swarovski crystal keystones and seed beads. It's for my Mum.

This one is made from glass pearls and crystals and is for my Mother in Law. She loved it so much when I gave it to her, it really made my day!

A pair of pearl and crystal earrings for a dear friend. :)

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Knitted Patchwork Blanket So Far

I'm back from holidays! We ventured off to Adelaide and Melbourne to catch up with family. While I was away, I did a little bit of knitting, in the form of my knitted patchwork blanket. Behold!

Here is the Ravelry link to my blanket

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Beads, beads, glorious beads!

I've recently fallen in love with beading. I have come to realise that I love jewellery and now I can make it. :D What does a knitter make when she learns to bead? Stitch markers of course!

I want to learn to crochet something like this beautiful beaded bracelet...... with wire!

What I've been up to lately

I've been learning how to crochet! I am working on a Pretty Petals Bag using 2x200g balls of BWN Luxury 8 ply in Lavender and Baby Pink. I am making 12 squares pink and 12 squares purple. I am then going to line it with a pink hello kitty fabric, because this bag isn't going to be girly enough already! LOL!

I've been test knitting for Tikki! I knitted up this lovely scarfette using 2.2 50g balls of Cleckheaton Kaliedoscope on 5.5mm needles.

I've also knitted up an Aestlight shawl with 200g of BWM Luxury 8 ply in Baby Blossom and Black yarn to contrast. I learned two new skills, double crochet and a knitted picot edging.