Pocket Bear

Say Hello to Pocket Bear! 

For my birthday my godparents gave me some money to spend and I decided to invest in a few more knitting supplies.  I wanted to thank them so I decided to knit them a little gift and fell in love with this little fellow on Ravelry.  He's quite small but rather cute and I'm sure he will be very happy in his new home.

Pocket Bear on Ravelry

Fire & Ice Update

I had a very productive weekend and decided to make a start on my UFO's.  I decided to start with one of the earlier ones and dragged Fire & Ice out of the cupboard.  2 hours later I had finished assembling the quilt top and I can't believe it's taken me this long to get around to it! It looks a bit wavy because all the pieces are paper-backed and it got a bit scrunched up in the cupboard but I'm confident that once the papers are off it will lay flat!

I started by trimming all the blocks down and then assembled them into 4-block squares, then into three long rows and finally into one big quilt.  The next task is to remove all the papers from the back.  There are an awful lot of tiny little pieces and, to make it even more fun, most of them are printer paper stuck on with pritt-stick so its going to take a while to clear down.  Still, it's good telly-watching activity so I'm fairly hopeful that this will get done shortly - I managed to get about a third of it cleared off on Sunday night so I should get there before too long... then I just have to decide how to quilt this Beauty.

Spike the Ankylosaurus

Meet Spike. Spike is a herbivorous Ankylosaurus from the Cretaceous period and has large armoured plates on his back to protect him from nasty carnivores like Tyrannosauruses.  

Spike is a quiet sort of dinosaur who likes to bumble around in the undergrowth and hunt out tasty ferns but if he gets angry he can protect himself with his hefty tail clubs.

Spike has a Ravelry page here

A Friend for Flipper

Flipper finally has a friend; I will name him tomorrow... tonight sleep!

A Quilted Quilt Bag

I made this bag for my mum for Mother's Day. It was a bit of a cheat as she actually bought the kit herself at a quilt show a few years ago but it still seemed to go down well!  The outer fabric was part of the kit and the inner is an old duvet cover.  

The construction was interesting in that the inner lining is simply the backing of the quilted panels rather than a separate piece and the seams are covered up at the end with binding. It gives a nice secure inner and is a method I would use again but wouldn't have thought of myself!