Crochet Cushion

For my Mother's birthday in April I had a go at making a crocheted cushion cover based on this pattern that I found on ravelry for dishcloths.


I used chunky machine washable 100% wool in a dark red and grey marl. The yarn was nice and soft to work with, not splitty, and the finished cushion is nice and snuggly thanks to the thick fabric that the chunky wool creates.


You can see here that the way the pattern is worked, you end up joining the seam across the middle of one side of the cushion.


But because I wasn't posting the cushion inner to New Zealand, I left it open and send some spare red yarn to Mum so she could sew it up herself.


All in all I think it was a success and a really easy pattern. I would like to try it in a finer yarn next time and maybe in single crochet instead of double, to see if it works in a thinner material etc.

Happy Birthday Mum!

Introducing Mr and Mrs...

When I was back in the homeland earlier this year, I attended the beautiful wind-blown, west coast wedding of some very good friends H & M. Here is a pic of the lovely couple...


For their gift I made some personalized pillowcases with their new names...


The pattern and pillowcases are both from Sublime Stitching.


Here they are installed on the marital bed. Quilt hand made by H's Granny :)


I think they were quite well received. Fewf.

Another cool online shop

So turns out I didn't do much work today... shocking, I know.
But I did find another cute shop in which to invest "dahllaz" in.

Behold... PLASTICLAND. Its a mix of retro and cute and also has a really good book selection.
Have a look at a few of my faves.

CD customizer for all those mix CD's you make. Errr, cute.


Boombox pillow, surprisingly quiet.



Creepy Cute Amigurumi Book. Ninjaaaaaaaa!


And I was proud to discover they stock, NZ's own, Misery! Nice one.


I am pretty much entertaining relatives all of next week, so it might be a bit quiet on the blog front, but I'll try to post a few things anyway.

Also some presents were mailed today so maybe by the time I return they will have reached their owners and can be blogged about! Fingers crossed USPS doesn't mis-direct this batch.

I attempted a bird last night too but it was embarrassingly bad so can not be shared. Perhaps more of those next week as well.

Have a good week everybody!!!

xxx

Brrring brrring black sheep

Crafty sheepys. Look at the feet!


Thanks A for the link.

Emma-demma-bo-bemma

There is a new NZ designer label out-and-about called "Emma". Cool name but most of the clothes are... meh.


This t-shirt is my fave piece.