Ear Flap Owl Hat

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I've never crocheted before... but my mum is in town and willing to impart her awesome skills and I've always wanted to learn. So, like everything I do, I didnt want to start off with something easy, like say a scarf. Nope, I made this absolutely adorable ear flap owl hat! :D I am completely chuffed with myself. LOL



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Preemie knitting pattern help!

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By the magic of facebook I recently reconnected with my best high school friend. She was 24 weeks pregnant at the time. It came as a bit of a shock when 5 weeks later and weighing just 1lb 1oz baby Sophie came into this world. Well a few weeks have gone by and Sophie is doing really well she is now off ventilation and off her feeding tube. She has moved out of the specialist Children's hospital and into our local hospital. She still only weighs around 2lbs.

I'm a keen knitter and have offereed my knitting services. So far I have made two hats and a ruffle bum woolen nappy cover. (Not entirely practical, but very pretty!!!) My next project is to be a cardigan. This one to be precise. But I'm really struggling to understand the pattern which is here. Basically most preemie patterns I have found say that they fit a 4 or 5lb baby... and as Sophie is still so small I need the cardigan to be about 10 inches around the chest and approx 5 inches long. I can't quite work out which part of this is the back. Usually you knit a back panel, two front panels and two sleeves, but I assume to minimise seaming, this one seems to be all in one. How can there be a back and a body and a front all in the same pattern?If I cast on the required 60 stitches, is that going to be the chest measurement? Or do I need to work some magic on the pattern to scale it down?

I know I could always make it up and she will grow into it, but I imagine it's heartbreaking to see that even preemie clothes won't fit your daughter!

The Quilt of Memories

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I made this quilt (my first ever, and probably last since I had no clue how involved quilting is) a while ago now, but never got around to posting the finished product. It is called The Quilt of Memories.



I made it without a pattern just going from a picture I had in my head of what I wanted it to look like.  The tree trunk is cut completely from one piece of fabric (I hand drew the shape and cut around that), and is appliqued onto a single large white sheet.  The leaves were cut from 3 templates I made up and also appliqued to the white sheet.  I then hand embroided words (memories) onto some of the leaves.  The whole quilt was then sent to be machine stitched together (after many attempts myself to free hand quilt it, but the bulk was too much to get around under the arm of my sewing machine).  I then simply hand stitched on a wide bias around the edges bringing the whole thing together.

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X-posted. If anyone is interested in the story behind the quilt, its on my journal. :)

The world through jeweler’s eyes

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The world through jeweler’s eyes

Dalek Pride

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Hi everyone! I know I just posted like a day or two ago, but I got really excited about this one so I gotta! I made new jellyfish fused glass pendants!