By Helen: September 2015

September 2015

09/17/2015

commencing Christmas crochet…

*** Warning. This blog post contains the “C” word! ***

I’m reliably told that we are only one-hundred sleeps away from Christmas: so I thought that it was ok to tell you that I have commenced with my Christmas crochet projects. I have a few Christmas crochet projects that I am working on; snowflakes (like the ones I've crocheted before), a nativity scene for my friend’s little girl (the one I often crchet for) and some mini-wreaths. Want to see?

Snowflakes…

Multi-snowflakes…

Crochet nativity…

The above crocheted nativity is what I am using for inspiration, so mine is going to look slightly different, and the camel won’t be putting in an appearance, here it is so far…

I can’t decide if I should add faces or leave them Waldorf. Any thoughts?

Mini-wreath, still a work in progress but I’m happy with it so far…

What are you crocheting, or making, for Christmas?

17 Sep 2015 14:17:07 | Christmas, Crochet

09/12/2015

super-sized fabric flowers….

I’ve wanted to share these fabric flowers with you for a while, I just somehow haven’t got round to it, until now. I was asked to make some fabric flowers for a wedding and the lovely bride set me the challenge of making them as large as I could possible make them! What a challenge! I was sooooo luck, not only to be asked to make these flowers for a very special day, but the bride happened to be an interior-designer and had access to the most amazing fabrics: I was, literally, a child in a sweet shop! The flowers are a scaled up version of these fabric flowers and the ones that I form part of one of my Workshops. Here is a small selection of the large flowers that I made…

I can’t wait to see the official photographs!

12 Sep 2015 10:13:52 | Fabric fun

09/02/2015

lovely, lovely, September…

Ok, so this post is going to be similar to the post I wrote you this time last year, and the year before and the year before and the year before! I’m not going to apologise: I just love, LOVE, L-O-V-E September. September, for me is the very best of all the months: there is still a hint of Summer in the air, but there is a twang of Autumn with cool mornings and dew on the ground. It is in September when Mother Nature buts on her very best show, the changing colours of the trees and the decaying seed heads that exploded like fireworks all over the garden. I thought I’d share some of those fireworks with you…