My creative space...

Isaac turns 6 tomorrow!

 

Clearly this... 

 

 

... is NOT going to be finished!

 



Those four missing squares at the bottom there... once I have done those, I'll be halfway...as long as I don't count the weaving in of those dastardly ends or coming up with a border of some description!

 

Want to create something similar in crochet? Three round grannies are your answer... even four would make this project a little less, um, lengthy! 

 

Five!  It's a wrist killer! 

 

 

A work in progress

I had a dream....

 

(don't mind my shoes!)

 

I think my dream got to big.

He is currently just shy of the width of our king size bed.

I still have 164 squares to do and join. 

The ends to sew in

An edge to do.

 

Each square is taking me about 16 minutes.

 

16 x 164 = 2624

 

2624 divided by 60 minutes = 44 hours (rounded up)

 

That's 44 hours of work peeps to just get the squares done.

Before the 26th of October.  Isaac's birthday.

 

I had a dream...

And am now having a nightmare!

 

(but, my word, how cute is Mario going to be!!!!)

My creative space... on instagram

 

I am lionessroar on instagram.

You're quite welcome to follow me. 

Leave your instagram name in the comments so I can stalk you too!

 

crochet at the indoor skate ramp...

 

crochet at the playground...

 

crochet on the couch (the mario blanket is back after my backordered wool finally arrived!)...

 

crocheting with Daniel Day Lewis (!!!)...

crocheting with mini m&ms...

 

crocheting with children asleep on the couch after a screaming night terror...

 

and some Angry Bird cake baking for good measure! (This is my second attempt at an Angry Bird cake after a friends grandson saw the first one and wanted one for himself.)

 

 

 

My creative space...

Progress with my Mario crochet rug is coming along... slowly! 

I wish, I wish, I wish I had made my grannies smaller! 

But I am not undoing that bastard now. 

Mario will not defeat me!

School holidays have hit us around here so I took the boys to this giant indoor skate shed (Best $12 I ever spent!!!).  They scootered and I crocheted... for 2 hours.  Thankfully they are too young to be embarrassed by their mother's crochet skills at the skate park and, after all, I am crocheting an apparent life size Mario!!!

That's his face starting to develop right there... a beady, brown eye staring at me and urging me to get a move along!

And just look at this fabulous fabric I found at Spotlight the other day!  It also came on a green background too and I may have got some of that as well.  Cute reversible skirts are coming off the sewing machine as we speak!

On that note, does anyone have any good advice on where I can get some clothing labels made up.  They would be very basic, just with LionessLady written on them, that I could attach to things I've made.  Of course I have googled, and Etsyied but you get such a huge amount of options I simply don't know where to start! 

Other creative spaces are over at the Village Voice on Kidspot.

My creative space...

The start of the Mario blanket!

It's going to be huge! 

I will definately need to order more blue wool!

Praps I should have made my grannies four rounds instead of five!

#toolatetoturnbacknow

creative spaces

Mario Crochet!

If there is one thing I have learnt, it is never to early to start party planning, or in this case, present planning!

Isaac has already decided he'd like a Super Mario Party for when he turns 6... in October!  And since I have been a neglectful parent in crocheting him a blanket as yet I am going to give this one a try....

Source: instructables.com via Lisa on Pinterest

It's actually quite straightforward since it is made up of a bunch of coloured squares joined together, a pixelated image if you will!

And how useful that someone has already created the pattern for me....

Source: google.com via Kathy Kate on Pinterest

So, that's only 252 squares to crochet!

I wonder though whether I should make them all and then sew them together or go line by line and join them as I go?