FAMILY AND FRIENDS STITCHERY

What is in the pink tin you ask !!  I puchased this tin filled with everything to make Jenny of ELEFANTZ "Family and Friends" pattern which is featured in the ELEFANTZ Home magazine # 15. Do you subscribe to Jenny's ELEFANTZ magazine? I look forward to it arriving into my in box on the 29th of every month packed with wonderful patterns, Jenny's stories and sometimes food recipes. If you aren't a subscriber you will have to wait to see what I make with this tin full of lovelies.

Enjoy the weekend.

Cheers
Kaylee

SEWING FOLDER

Faeries in My Garden have a monthly project called "Katy's Keepsakes" which runs for 6 months. This is my last project which arrived in the mail this morning. It's so gorgeous, I'm really excited to make this sewing folder as I don't have one. It has been a few years since I stitched Bullion Roses so I will have to do a few practices before stitching this project as I want them to be perfect.

Cheers
Kaylee

LOVELY CAKES

WOW,  it's almost a month since I last did a BLOG post, where are they weeks going ?  I have been keeping very busy with work, stitching and knitting. I will have to do some BLOG posts on my projects very soon but for now I have something yummy to show you.  As I have mentioned in the past, I work for a Japanese company and we have visitors from Japan regularly and they always bring yummy treats with them. Just look at this lovely tray of gorgeous cup cakes, they are all individually wrapped and they are soooooo yummy.  This is something different, we haven't had these before.  We don't see anything like this in Australia, do we !!

Cheers
Kaylee

BUTTONS BUTTONS BUTTONS

BUTTONS, BUTTONS, BUTTONS, I love buttons, do you ?  I am starting a project that needs a FEW buttons however I have a very addictive personality and I find it difficult to make one of something or buy one of something.  Once I saw these gorgeous buttons I could not stop at a few packets.  Mind you there were LOTS more I had in my wish list and was very happy with myself for cutting it down to these ones which cost me near to $200 ......   These packets of buttons should do me for quite a while don't you think ! LOL..
I purchased all of these buttons from a lady in the UK

This is a close up of the first two rows (vertical)

This is a close up of the 2nd two rows (vertical)

This is the last row and the loose buttons you see were sent to me free of charge, what a lovely lady.

These buttons were purchased from a lady at Ipswich.

I found all of these buttons on ebay, now I will have to find a large divided container to store them.

Cheers
Kaylee

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY DARLING REBECCA, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU....  I no long have a teenager in my house, my youngest turned 20 today.

Lots of Love Hugs and Kisses from Mum

I'd better get cracking, only 12 months to design and make Rebecca's 21st memory quilt.

Cheers
Kaylee

TUESDAY TREASURES

This week's Tuesday Treasures I would like to share what I made last week, I knitted these for two babies I know will be arriving in the next 5-6 months, the first is due early December and you wonder why I have knitted bootees, well this baby is being born in Tokyo and it will be the middle of winter in Tokyo in December so I know they will keep this special little baby warm.  The second is due early January in Brisbane and therefore will not need bootees till he/she is a few months old so the third photo of bootees is for this baby as they are larger. The first two pairs are very small only measuring about 5cms (2 inches) in length. The bear is so cuddly and soft, I will be making more of these after showing it to a friend (my age, we went to school together) and Kate and Rebecca (my two gorgeous daughters, aged 24 and 1 day off turning 20) and all three want one of these bears, LOL can you believe it.....  Well my poor fingers and hands are going to be sore after all this knitting :-)

Both of these are free Lincraft patterns which I downloaded from their web site.

Do you have something to share for Tuesday Treasures ? Pop on over to The House on the Side of the Hill hosted by the lovely Mel and see who else is playing today.

Cheers
Kaylee

PATTERN BOOKS

I have been shopping on line again, this time at the Book Depository in the UK, I love that shop, they have great books at great prices.
I have been "into" knitting recently and as I know 2 young ladies having babies I am knitting "baby" things. Firstly I saw this gorgeous book of knitted bears, the bear is a basic bear pattern for all the projects in the book with different clothing and accesories. There are 20 different ones in the book.
Here are some of them.

 This one is just gorgeous, I think I may do this one for myself :-)

The Second book I purchased is to make knitted mug rugs. So of course I had to buy buttons to put on the mug rugs, as usual there are soooo many to choose from, I bought many, many packets, some from the UK and some from Australia. I will post about them when they arrive. Here are some of the  patterns in the book.

Cheers
Kaylee