My Neon Waves Summer Scarf

Hello, lovely to see you!


Thanks for your visit here, I know you probably would rather sit in the garden with a cool drink and some fun crochet than spend time on the internet reading blog posts! What? You are actually sitting in the garden, reading this for a moment, whilst nestling your crochet on your lap and sipping from that delicious cool drink?

Congratulations, I admire you for your brilliant multi tasking!!! Well done!!! ;)

Here is something new for you!


Neon Waves Summer Scarf


Well last week I found 4 x balls of lovely bright mercerised cotton by Schoeller & Stahl or should I say it found me? Anyway, I instantly knew what I wanted to make from it!

I wanted to make one of these wavy patterns, where the stitch size varies, goes up and down again to create soothing waves.

So I came up with this!





Rhubarb and Custard?

I started on Tuesday evening, sitting on my balcony with Jasper the cat who helped me with my crochet. In fact he got pretty protective of this project since...




Deciding on my first two colours

Making Waves!



How the waves sit next to each other

Jasper the crochet helper

Jasper guarding my crochet against intruders

Ooh, colour number 4 now...

Making good progress

This is what I am hoping that the scarf will look like!

In case you are wondering - I laid the scarf in layers to simulate how it should look, my computer still hasn't learnt how to crochet!

I just seem to love scarves and shawls! And I can't help myself with starting new projects!!!

What is your favourite summer project? I better let you get back to it now...

Happy crocheting!!!

Oh for the love of sewing! An Easter Bunny, some cute pincushions, a dress and a neon pompom loop scarf

Hello again!

I mentioned previously how much I loved watching The Great British Sewing Bee! I found it so inspiring!

At Easter we went to England to visit my family. I came back with a huge load of craft magazines. In one of the Mollie makes magazines I found an adorable Easter Bunny made from felt. I decided that I just had to sew one myself! I made mine smaller than in the instructions (basically the same size as the .pdf printout).

A Bunny Plushy

Here is the free template to download and print out:
molliemakes bunny plushy templates

Some cute little pincushions

This was another project I always wanted to try out. I used a jam jar lid as a template to cut out 2 fabric circles that I sewed together. I stuffed them with the cut off ends collected from various finished projects, a great way to recycle yarn ends! (Incidentally, I also used them to stuff the bunny!) Then I sewed some embroidery thread through the middle several times and cinched it tight! I added a pretty button to finish it off! I made some smaller versions as brooches!

2 tiny Brooches and 1 pincushion

My first dress

On monday afternoon after finishing my Minty Shawl, I decided that I wanted to have a go at dressmaking! I took a basic T-Shirt Dress and used this as a template. I spent half the afternoon on the floor! Cleo was my helper!!! I didn't like the outside of the fabric, I preferred the plain side which looks more woven. I managed to find this large piece of material (2x2m) in one of the charity shops (Kringwinkel). It was a bargain at 3 Euro!

By the evening my first ever dress was finished and ready to wear. It feels incredibly comfortable and is lovely to wear in this spring weather. I made it very long, it's a sleeveless Maxi Dress!

creating a paper pattern from an existing dress

Using this pattern to cut fabric

Cleo my little helper

Wear it as soon as it's finished!

Ta-dah! My first dress

Finished Maxi Dress with inserted Side Panels

A Neon Pompom Loop Scarf

Yesterday I did another sewing project - A loop scarf. I had bought a remnant piece of material in England in Aqua  Blue with thin Coral Red Orange Stripes. I cut it in half and attached the two pieces lengthways.

Adding the pompom trim (2m long bought at Veritas), proved to be a challenge, I needed to take the sewing foot off! Overall I'm very happy with another funkycrochet original! It's nice to know that I made it myself and nobody else will have an identical piece!

I loved the colourful threads

Here are some photos of my combined efforts!

Hope you had fun reading this post! I just saw it will be my 50th blog post, woohoo!!!

Do you sew? What was your first ever make? Looking forward to reading your comments!