FINISHED! A knitted (yes knitted) baby beanie

I started this beanie when we were in Thredbo a couple of weeks ago but  I undid it all on Tuesday night after realising that I probably couldn't in all conscience give the beanie as it was with all the dodgey stitches and mistakes.  I wasn't too sad pulling it apart as I was watching back to back episodes of season 1 of The Hour  late into the night and was happily knitting away.  If you haven't seen The Hour by the way, then you must - because apart from anything story related (which is brilliant) it will make you want to go out and make a Charlotte pencil skirt!)  Really!

The beanie is knitted using Felici Sport Self Striping Yarn in Dockside (which I think is being discontinued). I bought four balls of this on ebay after seeing the socks made by Jen from Grainline.  I'm not sure why I bought four given this beanie only used one but there you go.
The seam (which I'm hiding) is a little bit dodgy but.. all in all I think a pretty cute make for only my second knitting project.
Given I'm posting about this baby beanie I thought I'd pull from the archives the gift I made for the big brother of this little baby to be.  I made this quilt back in June 2010.  Looking at it now I probably could have thought a bit more about the colour placement but I had a lot of fun making this.  Funny, how these two gifts probably took about the same amount of time!

 

Suger tee in situ PLUS some new Liberty!!!

Finally here are a couple of pictures of the sugar tee I made in January.  You might remember I didn't have quite enough fabric so the length is a result of fabric limitations.  It is a great tee and one that I wear a lot.

In exciting news I am now the proud owner of some new Liberty fabric from the 2013 Spring Summer Art Collection.  You can see all the details in my Library of Liberty fabrics.

Archipelago A

First up is the Archipelago A.  I'm going to sew Tilly's Mathilde Blouse (which I purchased the minute I saw it launched on her website this week) with this fabric.  I just love the little peeping statues in amongst the flowers.

Tresco A

The Tresco is just stunning.  The water colour is perfect - which obviously other people thought too as there was only half a metre left.  I bought it anyway, as you never know when you might need it.  I know, that's not exactly stash busting is it?

Richard and Lyla A

There is something strangely compelling about the Richard and Lyla print.  It is a fabric that I've thought often about after seeing it for the first time at Addicted to Fabric and knew that if I didn't buy it I'd regret it.  I'm wondering whether this might be good as a button up shirt or shirt dress?

Harry Potter Party: pre party stress

Oliver is having a party next Saturday for his 7th birthday.  A Harry Potter party.  I feel a bit like I'm spinning my wheels with this party (and it is distracting me from my other works in progress!)  I'm trying to both make it fun, but not be over the top about it.  All Oliver wants, is to play quidditch with broom sticks.  Ben says just let the kids do their thing without any prescribed party activites.  No pressure.

There is so much Harry Potter party stuff on the web and some very over the top but cool parties.  One thing I saw which I love is where people have painted brick walls on fabric and then slit an entrance through it for the kids to enter the party through 'platform 9 3/4'.  I love this idea so bought some brick fabric on ebay the other day, only to find out that the bricks were tiny, like doll size tiny.  Not to be discouraged, I thought I'd paint some lo fi bricks onto fabric.  So today, I thought I'd make the 'brick wall'.  As we were driving around collecting supplies for the cake and different things (in a slightly stressed and erratic way) I said "Oliver Oliver, what do you think about the brick wall?"  To which he replied, "Nah, I don't want it.  Don't do it."  I replied, "But it will be so cool."  He continued to say that we didn't need it and he didn't want it until finally I listened.  Ok, so it would be really cool, but perhaps the kids can just come in through the side gate, not through a brickwall. On their broomsticks....