Sunday, 20 January 2013

More crochet and sewing

...winter nights ..... so time to make some booties and a hat for Hathaway ... now all I need to do is get them in the post to her before she gets too big :-)

...and winter afternoons when I am sewing and the kids come in ... it is amazing the things I end up making ....rucksacks for Action Man and Sindy and bags for Nerf gun bullets ..." that have to be able to be put on my belt please mummy " ... then when I gave it to him all I got was  ... but it doesn't say Markus on the front !!!!

Steffi gets the crafting bug

Over the Christmas holidays we actually had time to sit down and for me to teach Stefanie to knit. After one row she thought she was a pro so had to "make" something rather than practice ... so here is her first finished article ... a facecloth for action man !!!




Now we are back on cross stictch as she is making a book mark for one of her teachers as part of her Booklover Brownie badge


Cake pops !

Finally we had to try out Steffi's new cake pop maker !





Kids christmas crafts ....

Even the kids were busy and we made a Gingerbread house

 and the kids made me some christmas baubles











Christmas Crafting

Well we had a busy Christmas ... but I did manage to try out a few new knitting patterns and crochet patterns as I got a couple of books for Christmas and it would have been rude not to .....