December Delights

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

I do love decorating the house for Christmas! Tree went up on the 1st December. This year I wanted to make a bauble for my sister as it the first year of her and her husband being married. I wanted to make something personal so I decided to decoupage hearts of her first dance lyrics on to a polystyrene bauble base. I added the embellishment of the extra hears and pearls for extra depth. 

I of course had to have a practice run with my first dance lyrics first! So ended up making one for my sister, one for myself and mixed the two sets of heart lyrics together to make one for my mum! I enjoyed making them so much and will be making more on request! 

I have been busy this weekend finishing off my fire place "Merry Christmas" garland.

This has been made out of Red & Green felt but could be made out of any material and fabric. I have embroidered white snowflakes on to the letters. I toyed with the idea of using silver thread. Maybe next time for another project! 

  Next weekend I will be going foraging in the woods some materials to make my Christmas Table Centre piece! 

Got to love Christmas! 

My First Needle Felt Class

Well this week I have been to my Very First Needle Felt Class! 

This was at The Leicestershire Crafts Centre in Market Harborough. 

I have wanted to try Needle Felting for a while now as I had seen a few amazing pieces on Pinterest. I had seen a little Needle Felt Border Terrier and thought I NEED to make one of those as it looks like my little Knitting Dog Lola! 

I asked my friend to join me on the Needle Felt course as there's always safety in numbers! So after a nice tea out we went along to the course. 

Everyone at the Craft Centre were really friendly and welcoming. We were shown how to firstly create a ball with the Marina Wool, and what the different sized needles can create in the wool. We then had a go ourselves! I had created a green ball! 

After getting to grips with the ball of felt we were allowed to either ditch the practice piece or make something out of it. My ball of felt looked like it had the makings of an apple so after shaping it a bit more I added a stork and leaf to make it look really cute! As I have to go along the incredibly cute lines I decided to add a little tiny worm coming out of the apple! 

As this didn't take me long to do because I had made it out of my practice piece I quickly went on to my second! Staying on the cute quirky miniature lines I went for a Toadstool! 

I absolutely love this! I am going to sew some thread to the top of it and have it as a decoration on my Christmas Tree! It's only about an inch high so nice and little for the smaller branches. My friend suggested making a bigger one and having it as a Pin Cushion! I feel a spending spree on Marina Wool coming on! 

I had about 20 minutes left until the end of the class and time was ticking but I just had to have a go at making the a little Fox that they had printed a picture of off of the internet. It's a bit rough around the edges but I did end up buying two needles and some felt so I could add to him at a later date! 

This has been such an amazing class and I will definitely be creating more Needle Felt goodies! Thank you to the girls at Leicestershire Craft Centre for a lovely evening! www.leicestershirecraftcentre.co.uk

Tuesday Night Knitting Class

Well another knitting class last night with my mum! She really does know her stuff! 

Last night was ribbed knitting. Adding to my sample piece of knit, pearl and Moss Stitch! I made a few mistakes but the Mother was there to save the day! 

I have also booked onto a needle felt course at the Leicestershire Crafts Centre in Market Harborough for the 19th November. I can't wait for this as it is something I have wanted to try for a while. Especially after seeing Sew Retros' posts on Pinterest! Her work is amazing, the stuff I can only dream of making one day! 

More practise on the the Knitting needed this week! Got to think of what I want my first practise piece to be! Maybe a winter bobble hat for the Husband! 

The first of many!

So this is my first post on my blog! 

I don't really know what I'm doing so bear with me!

I've wanted to write a blog for a while but never really knew what to talk about but I suppose the answer there is anything! 

Let me tell you a bit about myself and why I'm doing this...

I have always considered myself a creative person, a lover of things cute and quirky that you can't always find on the high street! Oh and I love anything little, the smaller and cuter the better really! Everything is just better when it's miniature! 

Like I said I've always considered myself creative but I more or less wing things when it comes to sewing, knitting, sticking and drawing! I have had a lot of books to tell me the techniques of things but I kind of read them and then think oh I can do this (never the most technically perfect of people!) 

There's also the fact that I tend to make things up in my head and then will them to exist! The perfect outfit, card, present, so why not make them myself! 

With the creation of "Pinterest" I was in my element as the world is literally your oyster with people from all over the world putting their ideas down for others to see. So I suppose this is my way of putting my ideas down and hey if someone wants to have a read them, then go for it! 

I have decided to go back to basics and learn the fundamental principals of crafts! Absorb the knowledge my Mum has, that she has learnt through her life. The kind of stuff I want to pass onto my children. 

I had a back to basics knitting lesson with the mum on Sunday and I have to show her how I have progressed tomorrow so I best get Knitting again as I don't have a lot to show so far! I'm sure this will bring a lot of stories to my blog so keep reading!