Wednesday, 28 December 2016

WOYWW

It must be my age!
All the days seem the same at this time of the year and it's Wednesday already!!
So, just a quick view of my table end.



My little sis bought me a little patchwork measuring square for Christmas - perfect for cutting lots of small items with my rotary cutter.
My daughter - another partner in crime gave me the fab fat quarters - cute little robin print - perfect for my little crafty activities.

Help yourself to one of the chocs - I have already eaten far too many!!

And lastly - here's the little hoodie that I knitted for a new family member - cute isn't it.

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and are now looking forward to your New Year celebrations.

All the best for 2017!
love from Jo


Wednesday, 21 December 2016

WOYWW - Merry Christmas everyone!

My table is empty, no work to be seen.
So my photos just show you this festive scene....




These are the trees, decked at Attingham Park
(No flash allowed and it was really quite dark!)

But all looked so splendid and trimmed up so neat
I thought I would share them - a Christmas time treat.

Merry Christmas everyone - I hope you have a lovely weekend!
x Jo

Wednesday, 14 December 2016

WOYWW

My desk is covered with freshly mounted Tilly Tea Dance work so I will show you what I managed to fit into my busy schedule this week instead!

There has been a lot of action on my work table - much fun had by all!
Steady on there girls - I mean sewing action......

Firstly, here is the little row of Christmas sacks that I made as Ben's advent calendar. He has loved peeping in each one to find a little treat/treasure each day.









Next is my trickiest project for a while.
I made two of these little puffy/quilty mats for Ben and was asked to make one for the latest addition to his playmate group - a tiny little girl who lives on a farm and I am sure will have fun with this one.



 And finally....

A little bit of teeny tiny knitting for the same little one.
You can see by comparing it to my pattern just how tiny she is.

I am probably going to make a few cosy sleep suits for Ben with the pattern after Christmas.

So that's me for this week.
Hopefully I will squeeze in a few minutes blog hopping to see what you have been up to. I have been useless at getting round the desks for while and I am really sorry.

Have a good week.

x Jo

Wednesday, 23 November 2016

WOYWW

 Good morning all - WOYWW seemed to pass me by last week! I don't know where time goes.

Most of my crafty activity has been knitting based over the last few weeks. I think I have made about 40 little Christmas pudding covers for Terry's chocolate oranges - these are to be sold for charity this week.
I also finished another little Christmas doll and typed out 45 names for a "Name the doll" competition so that 2 more charities can also benefit from my knitty nonsense! (All good fun.)

Below you will see that I have been kept busy by Tilly Tea Dance who has been very busy with her needle felting, making brooches, pendants and fab pictures ready for her up-coming craft fairs. She is at Craven Arms Discovery Centre this weekend.
I am the "finisher-off"  - mounting and framing her work for her.


I just wish I had taken a photo of my lounge yesterday. She filled every available surface with lovely work so that her aunty could come Christmas shopping and chose a few gorgeous pressies for friends and family - now that's what I call a personal shopping service! We had a lovely snack lunch and a good chat so, much fun was had by all and I even managed to keep Ben entertained too, while all this went on. Never a dull moment here!

So, that's it for this week.
I hope you are all managing to keep dry after the shocking weather on Monday.
keep cosy!

x Jo


Wednesday, 9 November 2016

WOYWW

Better late than never!
Here is my new helper standing guard by my sewing machine.
She is knitted using the pattern from Dollytime
Such a cute little doll and a really easy pattern to follow.

I think I might donate her to charity as a "Guess the name of the dolly" fund raiser.
I just need to find a few Christmas related names!!!

I hope you are all keeping warm and cosy - we have workmen in doing a few "touch-up" jobs and they think it makes sense to leave the outside doors open!! However, I am upstairs in my sewing room and it's lovely and cosy there.
At least we don't have snow ... it sounds pretty nasty in the North.

That's it for this week - I hope I can whiz around and visit a few of our WOYWW desks soon.
Have a good week.
x Jo