Sunday, Sunday.

Things I've made recently.

For my trip,

for my Chicky Babe for the dress up for the last Harry Potter film,

for my dear friend.

Something I'm working on. For my Queen sized bed.

Today.

Rooftop view of Fremantle from the top level of the car park. I love this view out to sea.

Ban Live Exports Rally Fremantle.

There were more dogs than people! (Not really but there were quite a lot of them. They are all so well behaved! Pablo gets too excited in mixed company.)

Brunch at a Fremantle cafe. Well technically it would have to be a late lunch but we hadn't been up all that long and it was an early rally 12 noon on a Sunday IS early!)

Elizabeth's Bookshop was offering free wrapping for purchases over $10. These books were for school but I'd fallen in love with the wrapping paper for kiddies with it's circus theme. One class at school are doing a circus act for their assembly and we are doing some circus inspired art works and I thought I could use this in the art room so I had them wrapped. The top one is from Tim an early birthday present. It is a French/English dictionary for our travels.

Crochet creations/celebrations.

Reports done! Made these two little girls last night for my stall at the 'christmas carol comunity event' at my school. I stayed up a bit too late finishing off the mermaid.
Reports are done (just have to hold my breath and hope there aren't too many edits to be fixed.) but I'm not on holiday yet so I will have to refrain from working into the wee small hours, 1:30 is a little late on a school night. Luckily I have a late start this morning. I have to go to Jacksons in my DOTT time before my first class and they aren't open yet.

Kawaii Kokeshi Dolls

I found this pattern on Ravelry, Very cute ,very easy. It would be a good one to use for a first project. I am using up some of the yarn that Tim bought for me at a garage sale. I have no idea who they are for. I might sell them or maybe they would be good for a Toy Society christmas toy drop.

Reaching across the crochet divide

Oh so delicious but a bit too expensive!

Silk Yarn

And wonders will never cease. While chatting with Chicky Babe today I was browsing Ravelry looking at toys to make for Christmas time. I came across some Japanese manga style toys Chicky babe suddenly exclaimed. Oh Totoro!
What?
Totoro is a totally cute creature from a Japanese Manga film. So now crochet is good and I am making a set of little Totoro toys.

My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)”

I can't upload a picture of the one I'm making but click here if you want to see it or if you are on Ravelry try this link.

Here's her blog of cute crocheted critters.

Going backwards

I've been trying to rush to finish this off. I seem to be so far away from finishing and I'm getting impatient with it. I've just spent the evening unpicking squares that were not in the right spot. I started this project as my first one after a thirty year break from crochet and the tension varies from the first lot of squares to the most recent ones and I've learnt how to join them better too. I've also realised that I can add rows of crochet on the edge of a square to make them fit a space better, but I learnt this after I'd sewn quite a bit together already.

(This is a phone photo)
When I first started I would block the squares as I went. Now, because I am notoriously impatient when it comes to finishing things off I'm just sewing them together and blocking it after! I had a look at Babettes on purl bee and realised that they are all following a pattern and carefully crocheting the correct number of squares of the right size and then carefully arranging them according to that....hmmmm, I am not like that. I'm crocheting colours as I feel like it not calculating the patterns and colour combinations and sewing as I go along. I'm adopting a far more intuitive approach.

The other day two of my kids came into the staff room to show me the jewellery they had been making in their lunch break. The other one was a ring of similar construction. They were so excited and I was thrilled that the culture of the school (which was predominately or even dominantly a 'sport' orientated school with little interest in the arts) is beginning to change. I actually got goose bumps because of their excitement and keenness to share their creations with me.

These are the ingredients I used to make dinner one evening recently. The green stuff is Kale from my garden. Luckily I got to use it because yesterday when I went out into my garden I noticed I have provided a banquet for some type of Caterpillar. It looks more like "lace kale"

Well at least Bantam Boy and I enjoyed our chicken and Kale coconut curry with almond slivers sprinkled on top.

Tomorrow we are going to a play at the kids high school. One of Bantam Boy's friend's is playing the lead role so we are really looking forward to it.

Tomorrow I really must clean my room. It has been embarrassing for months...it looks more like a teenager's room than a mummy's room. No more excuses! Hopefully having posted this here I will be more inclined to do it. (fingers crossed)