Crafty Mermaid

One of my good sewing buddies ( Wendy of Sew Biased ) made up the Muse Jenna Cardi in a lovely black merino sweatshirt fabric.  But the cardi didn't fit unfortunately - or rather fortunately as it was then gifted to me and I finished it off by sewing the buttonholes and adding laser cut pakman buttons.  Love them!  

I've been making a lot of Tees and they're definitely filling a gap in my wardrobe.  I have to hand it to Levana , there's something special about snuggly merino knits. This is a Skinny Bitch Curvy Chick free Tonic Teeshirt pattern .  I love it and its rather flattering - of course the awkward angle of the photograph makes it look far less appealing :)

I'm still woefully behind on uploading and blogging my pictures.  This visual feast is from the WSBN visit to the Little Teapot in Kilbirnie organised by the wonderful Kat . Behind the three tiers of calories, you get glimpses of the Papercut Watson  Jacket (by Zara of Offgrid Chic) .  I've one of these in the final stages of completion - I chickened out of doing the buttonholes myself and have actually paid someone to do them for me!  Also peeking out is the Star Wars creation that is  Joy's dress  - also self made - awesome print, no? What high tea would be complete without a knitted tea cozy.  A tea cozy is the next crochet project I plan on starting.  Though I still have to blog about three blankets (just finished the last one yesterday). Given the Kilbirnie location, Emma , Gemma and I also visited Stitchbird - a predominantly quilting store in Kilbirnie.  Some cute craft patterns and quilting inspiration. ...

This is Ryu.  That is my recycling.  But its in a box.  So Ryu must sit on top of it. Your weekend dose of cute.

You can't say I'm hurting for basics these days.  A blank canvas tee in black merino (with my previously made Mabel  and Espresso leggings).  Nothing much to say about it - other than its warm, cosy and easy to wear.

` Meet the lovely Mr Cat.  A creation from the Hop Skip Jump book . I've made a few of these now ( octopus  and Sydney ).  He's very pleased to meet you! He's arms and legs rotate and his trousers are a bit tight but he's a spiffing cat. His body fabric is a felted wool jumper (boo hiss for unintended felting),  his ears are a map fabric I'm too attached to to just throw out the scraps that are left over and his tie and trousers are a quilting cotton.

This was the first year I went to anything at Handmade Wellington .  Normally I just find it ridiculously overpriced for stuff that I can figure out how to do on my own.  This year I went to a handmade dumpling class and a stevia talk. This wasn't how mine turned out - but it is from the House of Dumplings  who ran the workshop. So earlier than I would have liked on a Sunday morning, I toddled off to Weltec on Cuba Street to make some dumplings. I'm normally a morning person but that morning, it just wasn't happening.  The class was a little too large and we didn't quite get to do all the stages ourselves - pity as I would have liked to figure out more about when the dough was good to go.  The intro to the class also took an age - and ate into our 'doing' time.  It is great to get everyone to introduce themselves but not in that size of a class with to and fro questions and then not enough time at the end :( We were given prepared dough...