Pearl Anniversary

My friend's parents have been together for 30 years! And that means its there Pearl Anniversary!
I decided to buy a pearl frame and make an embroidery sample for them as a present. Here's How I got on:

Finished piece in frame.

Close up

Close up of embriodery

Close up of embroidery and embellishment

Close up of frame and edging.

I used different embroidery stitches such as cross stitch, running stitch, back stitch, slip stitch, heringbow stitch. The fabric is linen and I used pearl buttons, beads and silver trinkets to embellish the peice.
Heres a few pictures of the sample in progress:

I made the & way too big!

Writing almost finished!

All done! Just before frame was added!

Well thanks for viewing my blog! :D

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Lobster Skirt

Close up!

Following my post I put up yesterday, I decided to make another skirt, this time out of 1/2 a metre of fabric. The shop assistant at the fabric store said it wouldn't work. It sort of has and hasn't....
It's not very floaty but it still looks decent and I can move around in it ok.

To pull the elastic through I tapped the end to a pen lid!

Side seam stitched and ironed out.

Sailor Skirt I made yesterday!

Today's lobster Skirt!

 Here's the blogger who made the tutorial for this skirt!

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1 hour skirt

Me in skirt

Well the weather has been so hot here in Scotland! from 22 to 27 degrees in different areas! Today I spent the afternoon in Melrose and bought a nice naughitcal navy fabric with white printed boats, anchors etc. I then found a pattern on how to get a skirt out of 1 metre (yard) of fabric! Here's the link to the blogger who came up with it!

Basically you get a peice of fabric and you fold it in half long ways. then cut down the fold. then take the two right sides and put them together and pin the two shorter sides together at both sides.
Next sew those sides up but at one side leave a 2 inch gap. fold the bottom hem up and iron and sew. then fold 1cm from the top and iron. Then fold the fabric so that the 2 inch you didnt sew are flat against the fabric.and stitch around. thread some elastic through the tube at the top sew the two ends together and basically that it. (check out Meghan's blog its a lot better than how I'm explaining it :S)

Here are the pics tho:

Close up....

The elastic gathers the fabric in at the waist.

I think I will now be making more skirts!!

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New Hair

Ariel, Me and Merida!

I usually just post about things I've made and/or bought... But here is my new hair colour!

Straight Hair!

Me and my inspiration...

Me wearing the hat I crocheted

More posts to come soon! I bought a few nice clothes and books in Edinburgh today... also visited an art gallery. 

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Crochet Hats

I have three hats that I have just finished crocheting! I like how quick crochet is and how quirky and cute outcomes can be made!
The first one I mentioned in a previous post. It was going to be a bag but then I changed it to a hat. I sewed up one side and just decided to put it on my head it looked so cute! Like a little elf's hat!

Hat - front view

Hat - side view

Hat - Back view

Hat - off

Hat - close up

Pleated ties

Baby Bear Hat:

My next hat is for a baby, inspired by this picture I found on the internet:

Internet picture

 Here is my version I used some fluffy yarn - it looks/feels like a teddy bear!

Baby Bear Hat - from the front

Baby Bear Hat - Close up

Baby Bear Hat - Back view

Baby Lamb Hat:
This next hat is inspired by this internet image:

Internet image

Lamb Hat - front view

Lamb Hat - Ear

Lambs Hat - Close up

Lamb hat - back view

Hello Kitty Hat:
Here is a picture of the Hello Kitty Hat I made for my friend's birthday. I only have a picture of me wearing it:

Hello Kitty Hat - close up

Me wearing the hat

Hat off!

Well thanks for reading the blog! The two baby hats will be on my etsy page soon. I will be keeping the crochet square hat because it took me ages and I love it!

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Internship

My friend and I who are doing our Peter Scott internship.

I'm almost finished my Peter Scott internship - it is going great. I am doing mainly yarn wraps and mood board stuff =]
Last week I was at Roam Studio knitting scarves to practise for production, this is what I have done so far:

Back - rainbows!

Front

 I've been busy making things and finding things I've made to sell.

Hello Kitty Crocheted Hat I made for my friend's birthday

My cross stitch baby bibs that I am trying to sell...

Also in Hawick there is a lovely textile tower house, which, as well as being a museum on textiles and its history in the borders but it has a lovely gift shop were they sell lots of hand crafted things. I am going to be selling (still to be confirmed I think) my crocheted pebbles there! I will need to make lots more and vary the size of pebble and yarn used.

The crochet pebble that will be shown to the boss of the textile tower house.

More news to come soon I hope!

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Crochet Patch

Jessie and I

Today we packed all of our third year uni work away! Its all been marked! But we don't get our marks until June - and they usually are late giving them out too =[
But I have been free to do some crafty things so here is me and my friends weaving, cross stitching and crocheting!

Hannah weaving

Jessie cross stitching

Me crocheting

These friend you see are also my flatmates and class mates. Hannah specialises in weaving! Here is a link to her blog.
Jessie specialises in print here is a link to her etsy page! She loves hand knitting.

Today I used a really nice book my friend got me for Christmas called "Cute & easy crochet" by Nicki Trench.
I have done a quick little square using some silk twill yarn and a cashmere and wool blend yarn. Here's the finished result:

Crocheted Square

The pattern says to make 27... I might just put the one I made onto a top as a cute pocket...

Close up

More to come soon!

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