Amigurumi Fish

It's always good to try and push Amigurumi shapes to make something new.

Here is the fish I crocheted, with snap on plastic safety eyes and a felt tail and fins.

It looks really peaceful. 

Seeing pictures of Amigurumi (mine or anyone elses) always makes me want to do more!

Making Even More Tugs

Quite a while ago I blogged these
http://socklet-world.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/star-tugs-and-zed-stacks-first-set.html
and these
http://socklet-world.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/tugs-second-set.html
and these
http://socklet-world.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/making-tug-boats.html
Although in reverse order.

As you may know with Autism: things often go round in cycles of interest and there are some things you may never grow out of.

Consequently, this week, I found myself again making Tug boats. I thought we had completed the set last time but... oh no!

So here are the next lot: 6 ghost tugs, the Princess Alice (liner), the coastguard tug, the garbage tug, the two station end characters Frank and Eddie and the container ship whose name escapes me, but I shall add it when I remember it.

Baby Pepper

This is the end of the peppers for now, I promise, but I can't leave you without you seeing the little buck toothed baby pepper.

Now it will be safe to log in to my blog without danger of peppers... for a while.

Laughing Peppers

Now I've discovered the delightful faces hidden in the middle of peppers... I shall never again slice them from one side to the other, but always cut them in half to see if there is a face inside first!

These two were delighted and its virtually impossible to see them without smiling .

= )

Tiny Handbags

Let's start with the finished picture instead of the usual blurb...

These little bags are so cute, perfect for Barbie-type dolls or just for the fun of the making. I made them to put mini books in but had no use for them after that, so gave them away to small people (children not diminutive adults- although I wouldn't have discriminated if they had asked for one!!).

Here's the 'how to' and its really simple

Just get a piece of ribbon that is quite wide (about an inch/ 2cms) and cut off a bit that is 2 or 2 and a half times as big as you want the bag to be. 

If you cut it twice the size then, when you sew it up the sides, it will just be an open bag. If you cut it two and a half times then it will have a little flap to close over the opening (see the two types at the top of the page). Some ribbons fray so you might have to just turn the raw edges over and running stitch a little line across to keep them tidy or, if you are making the open bag, stitch the side and bottom (keeping the fold on one side rather than the bottom) and then your open top has a bound edge already.

If the bottom of the bag is the fold and you sew up both sides. The handle can either just been the left over cotton, a piece of wool or thread added to match or you can thread beads on and then sew it across like I did in the picture. They are quick, simple cute and sometimes quite useless fun!

Painting the Kitchen

Our kitchen has been in situ for at least the last 28 years. We have been in the house for just over the 20 years and the people before us put the kitchen in when they moved in so I'm adding them about 8 years (long enough to kill the hob and for the seal around the oven to die ready for us to move in).

So it was about time to freshen it up. from this...

and this...

to this...

and this...

a beautiful duck egg blue.

We were unlikely to ever mend the two broken drawers (and have stuffed the spaces underneath so full there's no room to put a drawer back now), so I have bought some fabric of the same sort of colour to make a little curtain to cover the hole.

The door knobs are the cheapest B&Q can supply but the overall effect is new and bright and it makes me happy!

Hooray for paint!
Have a lovely swirly pic of the paint as I was mixing it together before painting...

Cross Pepper

Here is a pepper that was not very happy to be cut in half!!