Blurry but pretty iPhone pics

 

Made it worth having to stand in the rain waiting for a bus...

 

 

 

We drove out to the New Forest at the weekend as I had been cooped up in the house all day. I saw a tiny foal and this beautiful sunset. Apparently there is an area where most of the donkeys congregate, so I will be exploring that soon. There are very few things cuter than a baby donkey.

 

 









Noddy with his catnip mousey. OK, we posed him with it, but it is pretty much the only toy he will go near (apart from these amazing catnip eyeballs from Etsy which are now covered with a disgusting amount of fluff and hair and stuck behind the sofa). They tend to disappear under chairs and fridges when Miskit plays with them, I should buy them in bulk. If Pets At Home stop stocking them, I'm in trouble.

Tesla

 

This is my piece for the Phat Quarter "Blinded By Science" swap, for HugsAreFun. She told me she loves Tesla, so this is the Tesla Tower if it had been finished, with Tesla's favourite pigeon. The tower is tea-dyed felt (I really didn't think it would dye as it's not wool felt, seems you can tea-dye anything) with beads for the dome.

Batty Goodness!

Swap Bat, my love., a photo by whatisrealityplushies on Flickr.

This is the "Blinded by Science" Phat Quarter swap piece I received from What Is Reality Plushies (flickr photostream here). It is a tube-nosed fruit bat and it is AWESOME. I love that I can play with its wings! The background is also the exact right colour for my craft room (assuming I ever finish painting it). I may have squeeed very loudly in the office when I opened it....

I Hate Dandelions. And Brambles.

It has been mentioned that my blog has never covered "garden battles". Behold what I am up against:

 

This is the rockery... Below this is a WWII concrete bomb shelter.

This is the edge of the patio around the rockery (with bonus Miskit and 1970s gnome), where I planted a border filled with plants and grasses last year to try to hide the hideous concrete edges. Winter and the lawn we didn't kill off properly have not been kind. There's also a huge pile of branches and dead leaves from a tree that didn't deal well with the weight of snow.

Arghhhhhh.

Noddy on a bench

Small Child Leggings

Laura from Craftstorming has just released her first PDF pattern under the name Titchy Threads:

It's the most comprehensive pattern I've ever seen, including lots of information on sewing with knits, step-by-step instructions with clear photos, and many hints and tips. The PDF includes several options for the leggings, including shorts and different waistbands and cuffs.

There are links to different versions Laura has made and a tutorial for branding your own elastic here. If I actually knew any small children, I would be buying zebra print elastic and making them several pairs.

The pattern is £6 from the Titchy Threads website.

Bob's Travels

Bob appears on Mr X Stitch's latest Phat Quarter Finds (fan girly squeeee). There's some truly gorgeous stuff on the Phat Quarter Flickr group, well worth a look. I'm taking part in the current Fifth Friday Festival of Fabulousness swap there, the theme is Blinded By Science. I've just finished stitching, just need to sort out the back, so it will be on its way to America in a couple of days.