Temperature Blanket – January Update

Temperature Blanket – January Update

After realising I had made a lot of mistakes in my first attempt at my temperature blanket and starting it all over again, I finished January and started February very behind with my blanket. But I was determined to make sure that I caught up 

Temperature Blanket Update

Temperature Blanket Update

So it’s a month now since I started my temperature blanket and I was doing OK with it. I picked it up today and realised that I was not doing that well with it and in actually fact I had made a lot of mistakes 

2020 Memory Jar

2020 Memory Jar

I made a memory jar quite a few years ago when BB was very young and it actually got smashed quite early in the year so we never completed it. It is something I think of doing at the beginning of each year but never 

Knitted Temperature Blanket

Knitted Temperature Blanket

This year I am attempting to knit a temperature blanket. I am not sure how this will pan out, I haven’t totally decided whether I will do it for six months or the whole year depending on the size of the blanket. But I have 

Handmade Wrapping Tags

Handmade Wrapping Tags

This year I am doing completely different wrapping for Christmas. I have ditched buying wrapping paper instead opting for brown paper and string to wrap and decided to make my own tags, with some of my scrapbooking stash that I have upstairs. I got some 

Hand Sewn Draft Excluder

Hand Sewn Draft Excluder

I have already written about starting the draft excluder when I started it at the beginning of the week and I have now finished it. I really thought it would take me a lot longer than a few days as I am such a bad 

Hand Sewing Project

Hand Sewing Project

I am naturally not a hand sewer, I actually hate hand sewing and only really ever do it for scouting badges for the boys. But I have had this draft excluder craft kit for a while now and it has always been put to one 

My Completed Knitted Gloves

My Completed Knitted Gloves

At last I have completed a pair of gloves and no they are not perfect, but yes they are perfect for me and I love them! The actual pattern is quite complicated so to have read that and actually got something wearable out of it 

One Glove Done

One Glove Done

So the other day I blogged about the fact that my first attempt at making a glove didn’t go very well. And that I was trying another style of gloves. Well I have finished one of them. And I have to say I am really 

A Crafty Day

A Crafty Day

So after writing a whole blog post about the fact that I was nearing the end of making myself a pair of gloves I had to admit defeat yesterday. I could not get the second glove to work out at all and after four attempts