Why is it that, no matter how hard you try, the last couple of months of the year always disappear into a cloud of stress and rush and sleep deprivation?? And, in my case, crochet yarn - I currently have no less that four unfinished projects sitting around. I'd hoped to finish them all by the end of the year, but, erm, it's not going to happen...
Aside from the flying crochet yarn, however, November and December have been pretty good for making here at Casa P&P. Not least because I did finish a couple of things, and I'm just tickled pink by how well they turned out.
Aside from the flying crochet yarn, however, November and December have been pretty good for making here at Casa P&P. Not least because I did finish a couple of things, and I'm just tickled pink by how well they turned out.
Finished Projects
1. Cardboard Box Bus - A super-easy toy made out of cardboard, paper and repurposed castors. Here is the tutorial.
2. A crochet scarf and beanie for the Bean! I love them, he has decided to just about tolerate the hat. And the scarf? Let's not go there.
You can find a link to the beanie pattern in this write-up on it. I used the same motif for the scarf, and I'm currently trying to write up the pattern for it (it's surprisingly hard to do even though the scarf itself is easy!).
You can find a link to the beanie pattern in this write-up on it. I used the same motif for the scarf, and I'm currently trying to write up the pattern for it (it's surprisingly hard to do even though the scarf itself is easy!).
3. A crochet granny square tutorial, my very own and very first! It's for the ongoing saga that is my "crochet meets patchwork" blanket. On hiatus until all the winter woollies are done.
 4. The homemade Christmas decorations are up! The one above is from last year, and the one on the right took all of five minutes to put together out of felted balls and glittery plastic thread. |  |
Not so finished projects
1. A big stack of foam blocks covered in pretty fabric. Why am I making these? Well, I bought a new DSLR and vowed I could make a better bag than the ugly and over-priced black things you get in the shop... and so I had better do it! It will look great, just wait and see (though goodness knows when).
2. A crochet woolly jumper for the Bean, made from the loveliest rainbow yarn. Was meant to be done by Christmas, probably won't be, yadda yadda ya...
3. The crochet shrug of doom. I was so certain of the pattern and the colours when I bought this beautiful yarn, but it hasn't at all worked out the way I'd imagined it. Three weeks later I'm still screaming at it and it was meant to be finished by yadda bloody yadda YA...
Wishing you all a very lovely and relaxing Christmas, and a productive 2015!
