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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!

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Sunday Snippets

I'm a Sunday Snippet Virgin (!), joining in for the first time today.

My week looked like this....

Got paranoid about my yellow jaw after having all my wisdom teeth out.

Went to the boys school Open Night where Oscar though he might like to learn the drums.  Um, no.

Stood in line at Medicare for 20 minutes.  Realised I did not need to be there and should have gone to my private health fund instead.

Had Poppy Jim over from Tassie for a quick visit.  He brings chocolate hence Matilda's lovely smiley face.

Picked up the boys from school in this weather.

Came home to find a certain young lady asleep in the beanbag.

Went to the Hairy and should have realised that when he started shaving my neck it meant that it was a little shorter than I wanted!

Made a super cute 'Bunting' skirt!

Started the Mario crochet blanket.


(all photos are quite lazily from Instagram)

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I had a little skirt making session this afternoon and just couldn't wait till Thursday to share it for Creative Spaces!

Even better, it's a skirt I pinned onto Pinterest and then actually followed through with making!

It's called the Banner Day Skirt and I think it's probably meant for summer but I have made mine with some denim I had and some left over charm squares from my attempt at quilt making!  It's supposed to look like bunting on the bottom of the skirt which I think will be just perfect to brighten up dreary winter days.

 

 

 

 

Source: modabakeshop.com via Sonia on Pinterest

Whilst it took me most of the afternoon to complete, I am really pleased with how it looks and will definately make another one!  Since I gave Matilda's wardrobe a wee cleanout, I am fairly certain I can fit a few more coathangers in there now!

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Yay!  My wool arrived!  Love coming home from a (winning!!!) game of netball to find lovely packages on my doorstep.  I shall be starting the Mario blanket straight away!

I whipped this reversible number up for one of lovely nieces.  She's 11 and quite the bike-riding triathlete so I thought this lovely Michael Miller fabric was very appropriate.  I went shopping for this down at Gail B's in Bayswater and I literally had to have my blinkers on when I went in so that I wouldn't buy the entire fabric range in the store!!!!

Can anyone help me with this annoying technical issue???  Every time I visit a webpage I get this annoying little pop up ad in the bottom corner of my screen and I can't seem to get rid of it.  I've run my virus software through, a cleaner program, looked at at all my pop-up settings and still it taunts me! 

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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?





Feelings

This is what I look like today after having all of wisdom teeth removed yesterday.  Just without the mask.  My head is so wide at my jaw I couldn't put my tshirt on this morning so I am staying in my pyjamas all day.  You should see the icepak the hospital sent home - it wraps around my cheeks and ties at my head like a headband.  I feel like crap and look it too. 

When I saw this today on the Etsy blog and I had to share.  Because it has babushkas.  And because it it is beautiful.  Which I am not, today anyway.

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...with real pictures from a real camera (and not just one's from my instagram feed)!!!

The inspiration...

(from Mollie Makes)

And the real thing...

The pretty front...

And the plain back.

I crocheted my cushion inside it's cover since I think it will be used less as a cushion cushion and more of a pretty to look at cushion!  Just treble the front and back together and squeeze the cushion once you reach the fourth side!

 

I am in love with these little squares!

 

I shall go and wrap it now since it's being gifted to super lovely friend of mine.  Hope she likes it!

 

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