Mother's Day gifts.

As mentioned on Friday I decided to make mother's day gifts as money is a bit of an issue at the moment.

Anyway I made both my mother and mother-in-law the same thing, a crochet bag. Just a simple granny square, joined together with SC and TBC. I used Robin Chunky and a 6mm hook, this gave me a 10inch square.

Hope they like them and use them.

Mothering Sunday

It's this Sunday and I'm out of cash and time (bad planning on my part).

So, I've made some granny squares which will become lined bags for my mum and my mother-in-law. I only started last night and needed something that would be quick to make, so granny squares it was.

The granny's are made from chocolate brown chunky yarn, I'll line them with whatever I have in my fabric stash, hopefully something that will contrast well with the chocolate brown. Think I'll make the lining come up and over slightly and have fabric handles as well, should be quicker than knitting them.

Must remember to be more organised next year.

Hmmm, perhaps I should start planning for father's day now?

Uneventful weekend

I didn't really get much done this weekend, I worked a little on the Hippy Handbag from Lesley Stanfield's book First Crochet. Should get that finished this week (hopefully).

I also put some new curtain tape on two sets of my gran's curtains, the material was awful to work with very rough and stretchy but gran likes then and you don't argue with a lady of 85 :-)

My dad needed a small repair job done on one of his cardigans (the seem had come slightly undone) nothing taxing and it only took a minuet.

My first ever knitted bag.

This was one of the first things I ever knitted. I was just doing a sample of the stitch but it screamed to be made into a bag. So after a little thought and planning this is what I came up with. It's lined and held stiff with thick cardboard( bad choice looking back). But I was pleased as I'd never come up with my own design before (okay it's real simple but still, it's mine). As you can see I'm uploading pictures of the things I've been working on for the last few years. I'll update the posts as well with details of the designs.

Matching bag

This is the matching bag, didn't really take that long to make.

Good job really as she needed it that day.

It's a Kwik Sew pattern 5001 that I downloaded free from here.

Again it was another simple pattern (me and simple go together real well LOL).