I've Made Friday Week 54

Good Morning Everyone.

I hope you are all having a good week

and are looking forward to the weekend.

Our house has been a lot more peaceful

this week.

Hubby is back at work and Little Red is back at school.

I finished my Robot Blankie :-)

 

 I love how it turned out.

He is already in Little Red's bed.

This was a fantastic pattern to follow.

There are multiple pictures and the instructions are in both

written and chart format.

I made this from the One & Two Company pattern

I also finished my Ninky Nonk

I finished a dress from the

Elegant Felicity Dress

by

Lisa's Heirloom Designs

As you can see it's a fantastic pattern!

Lisa's patterns are so easy to follow, clear instructions and pictures to follow.

I forgot to show you this finish the other week

 

I made a Pterodactyl for Little Red for Easter.

I bought the pattern from

Cute for Brains

Be careful if you buy this set of patterns.

There is one listing for full price and one listing for 1/2 price.

I unfortunately paid full price.

I found quite a few errors in the Triceratops pattern

and a couple in this pattern.

I also couldn't follow or figure out the hands and feet

so made mine up myself.

I love the look of these patterns I am just disappointed that I

have to make so many amendments to them.

Now for my exciting makes!!!!!!

And a big confession.

I have never learnt to sew.

The other week Thursdays Handmade Love

theme was lambs/sheep

The Little Hibou Shoppe kindly

gave me a copy of the lamb pattern as a thank you for featuring their item.

This is a picture of their pattern:

The pattern comes with full instructions!

It includes instructions for each of the stitches 

with full pictures and diagrams.

This is a fantastic pattern and even a beginner 

can make one!  How fantastic is that.

Now please take into account this is the first

time ever!

It only took a couple of hours to make

and for a first go I don't think my lamb looks too bad.

It's inspired me to sew again so watch this space!

I would highly recommend this and Tina's other patterns they are just as fantastic!

  

   

  

My big decision will be which one I want to buy and make.

They are just fantastic designs.

This week I've been reading the Magic Tree House

books with Little Red

Book:

      

Kindle:

   

First we read Dinosaurs before Dark

This is a fantastic book!!!!!!!

Little Red loved the excitement and suspense.

In the first book a brother & sister (Jack & Annie)

find a tree house in their local wood.

In the tree house are books.

These books are magic and can take them to the places in the book.

In the first book Jack wishes he could fly on a dinosaur.

The imagination in the book is fantastic.

Little Red kept asking me to read more and more!

We have also read the 2nd book in the series:

Book:

   

Kindle:

   

Knights at Dawn

is book 2 in the series.

Jack & Annie whisk off to a castle where there is a great knight.

I won't give you any more information as I don't want to

spoil the story.

What I can say is Little Red was sooo excited to read these books.

If we hadn't finished the book before bed it was the

first thing he asked for in the morning.

I'm still listening to Walden so

I'll hopefully review it in full next week.

I have started my craftsy shuttle tatting course

I have finished the introduction & lesson one.

I have so far learnt how to wind my shuttle

& how to Tat Double Stitch

This might not look like much but I'm really proud of myself.

It's taking some getting used to.

I am so glad I am following the course.

I don't think there was anyway I would be able to learn it from a book.

I've been rewinding and watching all the way through.

I can't wait to start learning how to make the shapes.

Online Shuttle Tatting Class

Don't forget to enter the giveaway:

Now it's your turn

It doesn't have to be crocheting

anything you've made is more than welcome!

Please try and visit at least 2 other sites

to see what other people have been making.

Can you also put the pin and link to this page

so that we can get more people joining in.

Thanks!

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I've Made Friday Week 38

I hope you've all had a good week!

I hope you've got a good weekend planned.

Little Red wants it to be Christmas already

but he'll have to wait a little longer.

This week has been busy.

I've had a stomach infection and a cold

so it's meant a lot of resting.

It's meant I've been able to crochet.

When I get an infection the pain increases and this

is where crocheting becomes a god send.

If I'm crocheting I'm not thinking and focusing on the pain.

I'm soo excited about christmas as well.

I've been sensible this year and paced myself.

I can't go out Christmas shopping.

Even the thought of it drains me.

So a few weeks I spread my shopping over a number of days.

I went through the list and with the help

of hubby we managed to get everyone ticked off.

As each thing has arrived I've wrapped them.

This has meant only a couple of things to wrap each day.

It makes it sooo much easier and uses up only a small amount of energy each day.

Now I know he isn't fantastic but hopefully

Little Red's friend will still like him.

I used the free pattern:

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/cat-sitting-2

I made a Nessie for Edward the doll:

 

From the free pattern:

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/nessie-2

I also made Little Red a Dinosaur:

 

 I bought this pattern from a set on Etsy:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/97978886/set-of-4-dinosaur-amigurumi-crochet

I've also made a monkey:

I bought the pattern from:

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/amigurumi-monkey-with-banana

Now it's your turn.

Show us what you've been making.

It doesn't have to crocheted.

Anything you have made is brilliant to see.

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A Thank You to my Testers!

This post is just to say a huge

thank you to my pattern testers.

I just wanted to show you their work:

 Amie's Panda Hat                                    Amy's Purple Dragon Hat      Amy's Dinosaur Hat & Scarf

 Amy's Rabbit Hat                        Amy's Purple Dragon Hat     Aprile's Panda Hat

 Amy's Dog Hat                                  Sara's Cat Bib                                      Heather's Dog Bag

 Karen's Lion Hat                                   Amy's Lion Hat                                Lori's Cat Bib

 Crochet Couldron's Mad Red Bird    Marietjie's Rabbit Hat                            Crochet Couldron's

Amie's Panda Hat                          Marietjie's Rabbit Hat                        Robin's Mad Red Bird Hat

 Steff's Penguin Hat                               Amy's Triceratops Hat           Steff's Penguin Hat

 

Crochet Couldron's Crocodile Hat                                  Minal's Horse Hat

Amy's Dragon Hat

As you can see they are fantastic!

Thank you very much!

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