Baby Booties

I've been working on a pair of baby booties for a while now.
I wanted an easy design without any seams and also the possibility of making it into a different bootie without changing too much in the design.
I think I finally got it done.
I'm pretty pleased with the result and I feel anyone who likes to make baby booties can use this pattern and with some fantasy should be able to make a lot of different styles for any occasion.
Go to the Pattern page to download (in English and Dutch)

Little Things

Yard sales coming up in the next 2 weeks so I've been making a lot of small items, like keychains or purse hangers.
My own design for the mini cupcake keychain is available for free here.















Also made a small mini birthday cake (on a stand) and a little watermelon purse and a couple of book markers.

All are from free patterns (or adaptations of free patterns) that I found on Pinterest.

Of course I will have some favourite monkeys, bears and other little animals for sale too.
Now just hoping for good weather this coming Saturday and the week after (if it rains I'm not going!)

5 Friends

These cute little animals are all from Little Cotton Rabbits and they are so adorable! 

I love making them and their super cute outfits.
For their dresses I experiment with designs and combine them with things I see on Pinterest.
For $35-40 each they sell well through my display at Michelle's clinic.
I'm trying to make a selection to take to the yard sales in June, also with as assortment of different dresses so people can choose their favourite combination.
But the grandgirls were here this week and wanted one so the pig and the cat are gone already.
Need to make more!

Double Knit Blanket

It's done, finished it last night.

That was a very intense job, not exactly hard to do but you need to concentrate on the counting pattern at all times and if you make a mistake it's very hard to see at first and even harder to fix.

But now that it's hanging on my chair looking Christmassy and beautiful I'm very happy with the result.

There is no pattern, I saw the graphs and a picture online and I just made up my own version.
I made mine smaller (3x5 blocks instead of 5x7) so it would fit the armrest and also finish quicker.

Christmas busy

They don't call this the "busy time of the year" for nothing, I'm literally knitting and crocheting all day just to get everything done (10 more days to go).

The nativity set is a great success again, just like last year. As soon as I make some, they sell.
I mostly make the Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus set but there is also 3 wise men, 2 shepherds and an angel.
The free pattern is from Whistle & Ivy

My own design of the Scandinavian Christmas Gnomes are the other popular item this year.
I think I've made about 10 of these and still getting requests for more!

If you Google "Christmas crafts" my website gnome post is mentioned somewhere in the top (at least right now it is :)

I also send a suggestion about the Gnomes to "Blij dat ik Brei" (I translated the pattern in Dutch) and she wrote about it in her blog right away.

All this brings a lot more people to this website which is a nice thing.

I think I'll probably have to call a halt to making things for others soon so I can still finish my own Christmas armrest blanket before the 25th. I'm about 3/4 finished so I have good hope it can be done.