Making + Made

Hello. How was your week? Very good, I hope. I want to say

a big thank you for all your lovely and encouraging words about our

pop up restaurant in my last post. We really appreciate them. Thanks

also for your well wishes for Lulu. She still has a niggling ear infection 

but she's got oral antibiotics for that and she's generally well again,

 back to her usual chatty, chirpy self which is fantastic. She's at

gymnastics with Markie this morning so I have a couple of hours

to put my feet up, have a cup of tea, do some blog writing and reading.

Hurray!

I thought for my post today I'll share with you what I've been making

and have made over the last two months. It's not much, actually.

There's my crochet blanket which I've been working on throughout

the winter and which I'm quite determined to finish by Springtime.

I decided after Christmas that I'll try and concentrate on this before

starting other similarly big projects so most evenings I usually have

this on my lap, adding row after row while we watch television. And

the good news is I'm now less than ten rows away from the finish line

- yay! Hopefully I'll have this all finished and ready to share with you 

in a few weeks' time. I can't wait. I'd like to get back to my other

WIP, my flower cushion cover, and make this Orla Kiely tea towel 

into a cushion cover. 

I've just remembered that I also need to start on my Lenten stitches,

my square of fabric that I'll give to church to make the 'Fabric of 

Suffering' for Holy Week. I'll probably start this sooner than later -

Holy Week is only a week and bit away!

For things I've made, there's not much, and again, it's because of

my crochet blanket. I did dust down my sewing machine to make

these cushion covers for mother-in-law.

She asked me to make her these for Mother's Day and I was happy

to oblige. It was actually nice to do some sewing again after months

of crochet, and it has inspired me to turn that tea towel into a lovely

 new cushion - soon!

Back in February, Lulu had a Superheroes Day in nursery and all the

children had to wear a super hero costume. I didn't really want to

buy anything new so it was lucky that a friend sent the girls a couple

of Super Girl capes and we found a mask to match. 

I appliqued her name to an old t-shirt to complete the outfit

and that was her costume made.

Markie's project for last term was to make a Nature Log and 

I helped her make a little scrapbook to write down the things

she's observed while out on our walks and also to keep various

bits and pieces she's picked up like leaves, sticks, etc.

I got this idea somewhere online to make a book out of paper bags

so we can insert dried leaves and things she's collected and she

can write something about it on the 'pages'. She did all the writing,

stamping and drawing, I helped bind the bags together with hole

punches and pieces of string. It came out really good actually, 

I'm thinking of making them for the girls for the summer holidays.

So that's my little round up of making and crafting. I was hoping

to join Jennifer's Winter Project Link Party but I think I'm too late

for that now. Hopefully next month.

Time to pick up the girls. Thanks again for your comments

from last time. Wishing you all a beautiful weekend!