Claire - My Project Wish List

Sunday, 29 April 2012

Claire - My Project Wish List

I can hardly contain my excitement about our crafty ventures fellow yummy mums! I have struggled to just keep it to five as my Kirstie Allsopp Craft book from Ness has so many crafts I want to try but I realise I need to be slightly realistic in my endeavours.  I do after all want to finish them!  So here's my five most desired craft projects for now: 
1) Sewing: make a decorative stuffed heart with Bride and Groom's initials, as a gift for friends wedding in June. 2) Bake a Victoria Sponge for our Queen's Jubilee Street Party, 3) Knitted animals: A family of knitted pigs for Edith and Iris and a knitted horse for my friends little boy Fletch, 4) Knitted 'berry' hats for Edith and Iris, knitted using circular needles to be ready for the winter (i will be very pleased with myself if i manage to finish these before winter is over!) 5) More sewing: make a blanket and pillow for Edith's baby doll.  Hopefully i will then feel a little more confident to tackle making the kitchen cushions and curtains which i have bought the material for.  Can't wait to get cracking!

Vanessa - My Project Wish List

After much thought I've finally decided on my five projects for the year! 1) To make a peg bag. I'm tired of struggling to carry the pegs in one hand, washing in the other and dropping both over the floor as a result! 2) Bunting for Sophie and Ava's room. I haven't thought about pattern or colour yet but this will be my first project. 3) I'd really like to have a go at weaving willow with the aim to make a small useful object- which to be decided. 4) More sewing, I'd like to make a doorstop for my sister in law. Pattern and shape to be chosen by her. 5) After hearing of Claire's knitted animals I would like to make a knitted family of owls. Well owls at the moment as Sophie has a bit of an obsession with them... this might change. For a bonus aim, I'd like to make something crafty for my Jubilee Tea Party, will decide on what very soon. Here's to our crafty adventure.

Jules - My Project Wish List

1) Make a shirt for Charlie. I have made a start on this, I've cut out the fabric so hopefully this shouldn't take too long to do. 2) Knit a tank top for Charlie. Again, this is a project I already have on the go. I have almost knitted the back and then have the front and ribbing to go. 3) "Play" with some free machine embroidery. It is a while since I have done this and I would like to just have a bit of a play with some of the techniques that I haven't used for ages to remind myself of them so I can go on to use some in other sewing projects. 4) Make myself a skirt. I have some needle cord fabric that has been sitting in the bottom of a box waiting to be made into a skirt and it hasn't happened so I would like to get this done. Something smart I could use for work. 5) Bake some smiley face jammy dodgers! I had a go the other day and managed to get three that I was happy with, I need to experiment with the biscuit dough as it was too sticky so I obviously did something wrong. A bit of playing needed I think!

Welcome to the Crafty Mums Club!!!

This my second attempt, I seem to have lost the first one! Welcome to our blog, I hope you can view it alright and post to it. It is a place to show off our fabulous creativity and hopefully inspire each other to try out new crafty things. Anything creative goes! Your first challenge is to post a picture of an already created project and a wish list of five projects you would like to create, your deadline is the end of the week! I think if when we post we put our name at the start of the title of the post we will know where we are up to and who has done which project as we will all be logged on by the same user name (hope that makes sense) Right girlies, let's get crafting :-) Jules x