Making a Baby Blanket!

On a lovely day in Sandfly four of us each made a felted square to become a baby's blanket, we each had a season to draw some sort of inspiration from, in the pictures they are in the order, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring. We are now working on sewing down all the little loose hairy bits that a little baby is sure to suck at then we will sew them onto a woolen blanket, I think that it is likely to be a bit of a mat rather than a blanket to rug up in...as the baby will be living in Cairns! Little bubba is due in January- yay!

Crafternoon Blog- SHARE event

I was involved in an event with Crafternoon (www.crafternoon.com.au) during which we set up a factory and made sanitary pads for girls in Kenya! It was a great Crafternoon, lots of laughter, sewing and scones! More information is on Bec's blog at the link above.

My Mania

I made this wall hanging to be displayed at the Sustainable Living Expo that was held in Hobart over the first weekend in November. It is wet and dry felted. The nice curly bits of wool are from my Grandads collection from when he used to spin, my Grandma used to dye it.

Felted scarves! at alouk.etsy.com

Here are two more scarves! One that I have shown before with silly pictures, so these are nicer ones! Find these for sale at alouk.etsy.com! The second one was made just after I went to the the Botanical Gardens, when it was gearing up for the tulip festival, so it is called the tulip scarfe!

Introducing Micah Asha Harris-d'Arville!!

Yellow Yellow Yellow!! My favourite!

Yellow, need I say more? I love yellow so I made myself a treat, yum.

the beginning of felt....

A bit of the felting process! I actually haven't got the final product up loaded yet, but will get it here shortly. I made this one after I went to the Botanical Gardens and saw all the tulips on show....its the first felt that I have made that has some sort of picture involved...not sure how comfortable I am with that! ha ha, will have some more nice felt on here soon :)

A felted adventure

For my mum, however modelled by myself as mum was not wearing clothing with appropriate colours!I didn't think rainbow thermals quite complemented this shawl/scarf/cape! This was wet felted, merino and silk, yummy colour mix from the Hand Dyers, Spinners and Weavers Guild of Tasmania, Claret from the same lovely ladies! My favourite shawl dimensions so far, just the right thickness to save you from that little nip in the Spring wind, especially in Hobart at the moment!

Felted silk/merino scarfe! First Etsy item!

A felted scarfe! Finally I have got around to putting some felt on here, this one is for sale too! If you like it, visit www.alouk.etsy.com, my shop, where you can buy it! Alouk :)

Spring is in the air!

I must admit that these were not all taken this year! and I am not sure if they were all taken in the spring, but they look pretty! Happy Spring! My favourite season.

'Floral' Aprons!

Well, here I go again! I did these aprons for a friend at work, my first paid Job I think! She asked for floral and this is what I gave her! But she was happy. I couldn't bear all the awful quilting florals in the shop, no offence to those who love floral! I just couldn't see past yuck, I am sure there were nice ones buried in there somewhere! These were another new design, I think I still like wearing the other type more (the french theme and red striped ones from a couple of blogs ago), but these were quite nice as they incorporate the pleat, which was a request from the person who is hopefully enjoying them now!

a Darter? another interest of mine

http://tassiebirds.blogspot.com/2008/08/possible-darter-sighting.html

A dress and some flowers

A dress I made for a competition...we'll see how it goes, I don't think it is a winner though! Some flowers from the nursery at Ridgeway Tasmania

an evening with Andy and Elvis

Something totally off beat... when we saw Andy Muirhead in Hobart, my friends jumped at the chance of having a picture with him:) These are for your granny Cas. And this is my brother, otherwise known as Elvis.

Aprons...I am still addicted... Bastille Day at the d'En (the Don!)!!

First is a dress that I made for myself, nothing too special really, but it turned out well so I was happy! Here are two new aprons that I made, One for myself in a flurry of excitement about my new imagined style, which I love! It is much cooler to wear and covers more of your belly so it stops bench spillage more effectively! The second one was for Bastille day which we celebrated at the d'Entrecasteaux Hotel in Howden Tas (www.dentrecasteaux.com). The Consuming Passions man (Ian Palmerton) was there, a childhood hero! And we had lovely crepes :)