My first Poppet - Sasha

I've always wanted to make a doll, and I especially wanted to make one for Cara for her first birthday. I spent months trying to find a pattern but a lot of what I came across were too old fashioned or were right at the other end of just too weird.

I brought a pattern off Etsy which I was going to adapt to what I wanted. I had a picture in my head of what I wanted the doll to look like, something like Jen off The Dark Crystal but could not find anything like it. But guess what, within a week of purchasing a pattern to adapt, I found exactly what I was looking for and it was free. So typical isn't it LOL

I had brought a kit months before to make a fairy, but was a bit frightened to do it alone, if you know what I mean. The free pattern I found is from here. Email Ghilie and she will send you a copy of the PDF. This thread is huge, when writing this there were 885 pages and it's growing everyday. You can just click on 'show images only' to get a quick view on all the various poppets. There's also heaps of tips from fellow poppeters so it gave me the confidence to give it ago. I had the material from the kit that I could use, I had already brought the sculpting needles, just needed to find the buttons for the joints (found at Spotlight) and figure out how to do the eyes.

Once all this was sorted, I was ready to create. Still a bit nervous and since I'm still a beginner sewer I was freaking out just a tad, but I knew madam's birthday was coming up quick so I had better get cracking. Once the pattern was cut out it all came together quite quickly. The whole process was actually really easy and I could see my poppet coming to life after a night of creating.

Well I think that's enough waffling so I shall now reveal Sasha :)





As I write this she is now dressed, I just need to take some photo's ASAP and will update this blog with them.

I will be updating my blog a bit over the next few days so please check back to see what other craftiness has been happening here :)

My first crochet project

Well I couldn't believe it myself, I jumped in feet first one day when I got a library book out just after Christmas. There was a great pattern in it for a crochet snake. I had the right size hook, some yarn so I thought 'Hey why not'. Well it took me about 7 attempts to get it started, and I still couldn't figure out the pattern. Serves me right since the only other thing I have made before is a giant granny square for Cara in the car.

So me being me, changed it to suit. Once I did this it grew very quickly. Thankfully I did read enough of the pattern to know to stuff it as I went otherwise it would have been a right pain in the ass to fill at the end. I did take note as to when the increases were made in the pattern, but other than that I just went for it.

I also changed the head slightly to make it easier for me, as well as the tongue.

The eyes were done in felt in the pattern, but these looked boring so I made some flowers instead using this tutorial. Lucy's blog is amazing, her blankets (and everything else) make me feel all giddy. Here I was thinking I liked only earthy colours, ha, I believe the wonderful world of knitting and crochet is changing that haha.

This is Lily




Now off to finish off the Rainbow Dress I started weeks ago. Look out world I'm on a roll LOL

Christmas Presents

For Christmas 08 I decided to make all of my Christmas presents, well all three of them anyway. Thankfully our family decided to draw names this year, so we didn't need to buy for everyone.

I made my nieces Beach Bags. I adapted the Tiny Happy bag which I made previously, and made giant Beach Bags. I was pretty pleased with how they turned out and so were they.




I also made for Gwen and knitting needle roll. I love it, really wanted to keep it for myself, but couldn't be naffed making another one :)

This weekend I made a shoulder bag using this pattern, although I did change the size a wee bit, as this pattern turns out quite small. I'm pretty pleased with it as it's only the 2nd bag I've ever made :)



Don't know why the pic has rotated when I uploaded it. Will sort this out later.

I can see myself making a heap more of these. I've already made up another pattern, heaps bigger, with more pockets etc to use as a nappy bag as I hate the traditional style of nappy bags :)

Coffee Group Christmas Party

Last Sunday we had our first Coffee Group Christmas Party. One of our families live on a 10 acre block set in some really nice country side, best thing is that it's only a 10 min drive from our house. Their lawn by their house is huge so we took up a couple of gazebo's and huge mats to set up. It was so hot that we were so pleased we did this, all the wee ones ended up under them.

Cara was fantastic, but wouldn't sleep, there was just too much going on. Poor wee mite was awake for six hours. We lost track of time and certainly didn't mean to keep her up for that long.

The kiddies did their first Secret Santa. I made my present for a wee boy in our group.

Here it is

Rock Bunny

My girlfriends boy as being having a rough time lately (and so have the parents) so I made him a rock bunny, she was talking about buying one, and typical me said "Don't buy one I'll make it". I didn't have any baby type material at home, but me being me wanted to make it there and then, and I'm pretty pleased with the result.



It's a bit rough around the edges, but he was pretty happy with it. I now need to make one for her daughter and one for Cara