Today has been a pansy day

If only I could write a pattern so I could recreate them, I barely know how I made them!

I won a competition!!!

 

I entered a gadget themed project to Cutoutandkeep with the hope of winning Punchdrunk Panda vouchers. I came up with the idea of laptops keys that can be attached and rearranged on Velcro strips that can then be attached to anything else. I did a pencil case and a notebook and the pencil case won. ^-^ think I will treat myself to a camera strap with the winnings ^-^

To make your own you can follow this link

  http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/detatchable-keyboard-pencil-case

http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/detachable-laptop-key-notepad-embellishment 

New hand warmers made ^-^

These red ones are my new favourites I'm usually quite shy when it comes to yellow but I've embraced it in the form of tiny buttons. 

Follow this link for more info:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/201935205/red-and-orange-stripy-handwarmers?ref=shop_home_active_2

Follow this link for more on this pair of speckled softiness: 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/201929578/orange-hand-warmers-fingerless-gloves?ref=shop_home_active_4

Love the buttons on this pair:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/163889935/cream-crochet-hand-warmers-fingerless?ref=shop_home_active_1

More to come soon hopefully.

Another Pin Brooch Made

Pattern was much easier to design than the poppy I wrote about a couple of blog posts ago, might make some more in different colours. 

Handwarmers

It's about that time of year where I start making hand warmers again, finished this pair a couple of days ago while In Hares and Hedgerows Gallery.

Poppy Pin

Doing a bit of soldiering makes me feel like my degree was worthwhile, and combining it with my crochet pieces makes me happy inside ^-^ ...

Pansy next I think.

Pansy

Going to make as many colour variants as possible, then move onto poppies and turn them into lapel pins....oh dear lots to do!!

Made these yesterday, brooches I think they'll be....

 

New Toy

I spent most mornings at uni practically hugging the laser cutter in the metal workshop. Now I am hugging a Cameo Silhouette Cutter, my bedroom-friendly laser-less alternative. It's just as loud and comes with a matt so tacky that it rips the paper when I lift my work off it, but soon our minds will become one and together we will make paper pieces in perfectly cut harmony!!!!

Getting My Granny Square On!!

This might be the alternative to my obsession with hand warmers. Took me a while to get the bitty stitch arrangements right and work out the best way to do the soldered attachments, but now they're sorted I'm going to make loads in every colour I could possibly think of and work out more designs. And then maybe make a tiny pointless blanket for a beetle in need...

These squares are 12mm x12mm, which is about as small as I can get I think.