Clothkits and Kath Kidson
When it was my birthday earlier this summer (I say ’summer’ laughingly) I received 2 particually brilliant presents. My best and oldest friend always chooses perfectly for me, it is always an exciting occasion when I see her writing on a parcel.
Look!
Can you see?
So utterly useful and beautiful too, all bits I use all the time are downstairs on the bookcase, so now I don’t have to route through drawers!
My mum bought me a cloth kits skirt, this one:
This is my version, it fits beautifully and I love it.
There was also a lot of fabric left over, and something about the printed lines really grabbed me, so I got cutting, sewing, patching followed by a little running stitch to join the dots together…There is something about lines that I like and I really enjoyed hand sewing again, not sure what I’m going to do with it though??
Duo Quilt Along
So I have made my fabric choices. I wanted it to go in the lounge with the other cushions i’m doing, but I don’t have the right fabrics, so I went with these and it will go in my bedroom, what do you think?
The print is from a swap with Emma of bagladee fame, the stripe was an edging for a skirt, the grey and old blouse and the cream is an old table cloth.
I’m not sure about the cream, its quite overpowering I think. I may just do a thin strip to break the colours up, I’m not sure till I start cutting them out and seeing how they look.
The block pattern on Rachels blog that we are all following is lovely and great as it is quite open to interpretation and more importantly, easy! They have set up a flickr group so we can see each others progression, some of the fabric choices are gorgeous!
I’m also getting on with my patchwork crochet/knit cushion, what do you think?
Yes, you are right, there are 3, yes 3 knitted blocks, two in stocking stitch and one in cable! Me, knitted cable! I don’t think I could manage more than a square, and a 4″ one at that! But I’m pleased with how its coming on. I really enjoy working new stitch patterns, the yellow is Relief Trebles, the blue is a Woven Stitch,
the red is an Up and Down Stitch and the green is Basketweave Stitch. All taken from The Crochet Stitch Bible, my favourite stitch book.
Strangely, to get the colours looking something like they actually do, the camera is changing them, the function that gave the best similarity was the ‘retro’ setting – what do that say about my colour choices?!
Indian summer/second spring?
Either way this last weekend was lush and unexpected, so when Rich had a whole weekend off we decided to go away after Adam’s footy match for the night. Due to obscene and pathetic council regulations our fave site had closed down for the winter – the night before – so I went googling.
Talk about an amazing find, Dan-yr-Ogof, the Welsh Show Caves, (which are brilliant by the way, you can even get married in one, its gorgeous) have a campsite on the side, in the middle of the Black Mountains. It was bliss.
We got there on Saturday afternoon, had a little explore then settled down to just, well, chill. There was a little bubbling stream running through the site that provided some welcome shade, I pitched up with some cushions and my crochet
Adam built dams and picked a couple of pound of blackberries
and Tom whittled a fishing rod cum weapon, hours went by in complete contentment!
The next day we went for a trek up one of the Black Mountains, hard going but so worth it, just us, a few sheep and shed loads of fluffy catapillars!
Look who figured out the timer on her camera!!
We were in fact away for less than 24 hours, but if felt like a week, I love where we live!
