Baby Teddy Bunting

As I felt that I was on a role with this crochet I decided to make the same mother to be some baby bunting, but making 3d teddies.

I followed my first pattern, easier than I thought.

Maternity Leave Learns to Crochet - Taggie Blanket

Eve since I was a little girl I have always wanted to crochet, I think because you could make loads of cool things and I have always thought it very Britsh! When I got pregnant I knew that the new sewing room would not get much use and that this would drive me mad not being able to be creative, so best chance to learn to crochet! I brought a book and the yarn needed for the first three projects, along with some cheep practice yarn. Now I was brought up with practice makes perfect, so I took all my stuff on holiday to the Croatian island of Korcula and chained and chained and chained. Even when I got home I chained and chained. My thinking was that if I could put it down and pick it up and it still be the same tension then I was ready to move on. Well I chained for ages and then didn't do it for ages as my spare moments was used for shopping and decorating for baby. But when baby Fern finally arrived I tried again. The book was crap! I ended up and still turn to YouTube for help, there are some great tutorials out there. Here are my first three projects.

This is a high contrast baby sensory blanket, I still need to add the. Ribbons on though.

I used 3 of each, bobble, loop and triple stitch with a few rows of single and a scallop edge.

This is my first chunky small blanket.

UPDATE

Yay I have finished it. Washed and ribbons added, I am really happy with how it turned out and so was the mother to be.

Facebook Love from the Sewing Group

Last week I decided to post a few of my makes on a Facebook sewing group to see what people thought, I was overwhelmed with the response, as you can see from my screen grabs I have 1.1k Likes and 292+ comments.

Baby Cot Lavender Bags

As I made some baby bunting for my friends I also decided to try my hand at lavender bags that could be hung next to the cot or moses basket. I had a look online and came up with these designs.

Pom Pom Flowers

We inherited a vase from my husbands nan and it has been hidden in the front room fro a year and then we moved it into the spare room, it was the only thing that we didn't move out of the room while we were decorating, and as the room slowly took shape it stayed there and now actually looks really good. SO with that in mind and now wanting to keep it I pinned some pompom flowers, with that in mind, thats what I decided to do.

I used 5 garden canes that I painted green, made different types of flowers that have individual leaves. I am really chuffed with how they turned out. 

Felt Minecraft Robot

I came across these on Pinterest and think they are uber cute.

 And this is mine.

Taxidermy Soft Elephant Head - Abby Glassenberg

I had seen a few of these, again on Pinterest, and thought it was different but cute. My friends and family thought it was scary, but out and about the past few months have shown that they are now being sold in shops, so they have come round now. I downloaded this pattern from Etsy and it came with the option of doing a giraffe as well, but I chose the elephant. 

Here is mine