What Have You All Made Recently?

[cloudpuff]

Title says it all really.
Tell me about the lovely things you have been making,any craft. Pictures/Ravelry links would be great.
I like to crochet but I've found myself in a bit of a rut and want to be inspired and find some motivation to make something, even if its a totally different craft.

Share away.

Don't get much chance to be creative these days but I have made DS a dinosaur hooded towel, DS & his bf matching spotted cooking aprons, DS's party bags (9 little spotted fabric backpacks - it was a teddy bears picnic) in the past few months.
Crafts on hold at moment as I'm currently illustrating a book with images suitable for DS's Bf who is partially sighted... Really rewarding but taking longer than I planned

Bandana bibs - and my mates gorgeous 8 week old modelling them

mimapants.blogspot.com/2011/06/cuddling-cuties.html

Wow wonkylegs, sounds like you have actually been quite busy indeed!

Niecie well done on the sewing machine acquisition, the fair sounds great too- I found some incredible photos of the Tokyo quilting festival over the years, insanely detailed and beautiful work. True artistry!

And thanks moomininthecorner- yes I want to get Christmas out of the way WELL ahead of time!

Good grief wonkylegs what do you get up to when you ARE being creative?!?!

cloudpuff sorry I only just saw your question! Maybe I'm just kidding myself but I don't consider sewing to be an expensive hobby (I am also a climber and climbing really is an expensive hobby).

I think with sewing you can control how expensive or not it is, and how much money you invest into it. For me, I make things that I might otherwise buy, and I source cheap fabric (but not bad quality cheap, good quality reduced or taken from other clothes I buy from charity shops). You can be thrifty and sew and then it is cheap, or you can buy designer fabric and then it will cost a bomb.

I bought my machine second hand off Ebay for £30 (I year old and costing hundreds new) and I bug thread and other finishings in bulk off Ebay rather than one offs from John Lewis (e.g I bought 100 zips from Ebay for £6, if you buy them individually they cost £2-£4 per zip from John Lewis.

I sew clothes for DS that I would otherwise have to buy, his shorts for example cost about £6 each, so that to me is cheap.

Sewing things for friends for presents is cheaper than buying them presents, so to me, it is not an expensive hobby.

onlywantsone I can't leave comments on your blog! Wanted to say, I love the blanket! Your stitching is much neater than mine

why cant you leave comments?

No one has left comments - makes me sad :(

try now - Ive fiddled with settings :)

Yay, it works now, I left a comment! That's why you haven't had any comments yet!

ooo thank you

shall go see

was feeling very disheartened

moomininthecorner lol I guess it's all relative, I've got loads of ideas bubbling away but never seem to have the time to do them, now I'm working FT
I work in a creative profession but the further I get up the career ladder the more I don't do the creative stuff so I guess it's just frustrated creativeness bursting out

New project - to make curtains for under my daughters cabin bed :)

wonky I feel pleased if I do one row!!! So many people on this thread are so productive - one day there will be time....sigh

www.ravelry.com/projects/begknitter/bobbys-garden

I'm officially crazy in attempting a sock-yarn scrap blanket given the amount of free time I actually have, but it is growing slowly!

You are all talented ladies, I think I will have to get myself a sewing machine.

I am sooo jealous of the stitchy corner, I really need something like that, DP has just chewed my favourite stitch marker thinking it was "some piece of crap laying around".

Keep posting your wonderful items.

Jennie that blanket looks like a lot of hard work but it will be amazing. I have left you a comment but Im a different name on rav.

That blanket is amazing. I love it. Love it. Must make one NOW!!! And yes, you are mad

this month I've made this pocket tidy and jazzed up this little top

This is a great idea of the ops to keep sharing what we have all been crafting. loving looking at all these new blogs.

Thankyou for the comments - I've done 5 hexes this weekend and feel like it's finally coming along!

Wibble.

Here's where I've got to with my tea tray quilt. Is it worth pinning together do you reckon? photo

moomin your blog is lovely!