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Christmas preset round-up and Happy New Year

By Eddie | Published: December 30, 2011

Before 2011 ends I want to take a moment to look at the homemade Christmas presents. Both the ones I made and gave away and the ones I got. For more inspiration check out my Pinterest board “Making Christmas Gifts 2011“.

But before I show off the photos I just want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Today I am 39 weeks on in my pregnancy and waiting and waiting for the baby to want to come out. In all likelihood it will happen in January as December is all but over now. I can’t wait to show off all the clothes and other goodies I have been knitting and sewing for the little one. If you are interested in some of the tutorials I have been using have a look at my Pinterest board ” Creating for baby“.

A bag I made for my husband with embroidered (not by me) birds (he is a big bird fan)

A tray my husband and I decoupaged with maps for my little brother who is studying geography.

I made a couple of these porcupine pin cushions for my mother and sister using this wonderful tutorial from Prudent Baby

I made these Christmas stockings for my husband and myself using this free tutorial.

My sister made this vinyl record bowl for my husband. There is a free tutorial for this here.

She also made him this fab pencil case for his art pencils.

For me she made this pretty shawl which I can’t wait to use.

Posted in Christmas, Craftyness, Decoupage, Handmade, Inspiration, Recycling, Restyling, Sewing | Tagged bags, maps, porcupine, shawl, stockings, vinyl | 2 Comments

Gifts for bump

By Eddie | Published: December 13, 2011

Its getting close now – both Christmas, the New Year and the bump becoming a real life baby. The last thing is still too surreal to understand. I have been preparing and nesting for months but I still don’t really ‘get’ that there is going to be this little human being in our lives. But I am nearly ready to be over with this whole pregnancy thing – its getting old! My hands and feet are swollen and my fingers have stopped functioning as they used to, making it difficult to sew and near impossible to knit. Luckily I have friends and family who have been making such wonderful things for the bump and today I want to show it all off a bit.

Yesterday I opened the postbox to find a parcel from my friend Elseline. In it I found this wonderful baby blanket that she has woven. If you are on Ravelry you can see the project there. It has been woven with Baby Superwash from Bouton d’Or and Hand-dye Effect by Regia and can be washed in the machine, yeah! Thank you so much Elseline!

I have previously been showing off my sisters baby clothes sewing. Here is a bit more of it because she has recently sent her entire stash of baby clothes with us home. Its kind of a gift and kind of not! We have the agreement that we will use it for now and then she gets it back together with out baby clothes stash when she has a baby. But there is so much wonderful clothes amongst it. Thanks sis!

Posted in Handmade, Motherhood, Sewing, Weaving | Tagged baby clothes, family, friends, gifts, sister | 2 Comments

Baking with my sis

By Eddie | Published: November 18, 2011

So last weekend we went to visit my sister and did a lot of baking. A real lot. We weren’t finished till past midnight. We baked gingerbread hearts, brunkager and pebernødder.

For the brunkager you need to slice a frozen tubular piece of dough and its normally quite difficult to do by hand so I was so happy when I found a lovely old Eva bread cutting machine at a recycling centre. I have been wanting one for ages and here it was just when I needed it. We used it for the brunkager and it worked wonderfully.

Finally, we had decided to have duck that evening and inspired by the brothers Price I was making duck dough-balls (andeskiver) as a starter. Because who hasn’t got a tin of confit de canard in their fridge (thanks to Cecile). I made a portion of the whole tin so I have enough to make some more andeskiver for Christmas.

And yes it is Christmas soon! We have already bought Lego for our usual Lego advent calender. I have also joined the Crafty Christmas Club again and begun making presents. So if you are from my close family – don’t go looking over there because you might see you present early – and where’s the fun in that.

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Knitting vests for bump

By Eddie | Published: November 2, 2011

Lately I have been knitting a few vests for the bump. I am rather into anything stripy at the moment or just anything colourful. We have decided not to find out the gender of the bump and I’m not too fussed with the whole colour coding thing so I have gone for putting loads of colours together in various ways. Its not for everyone but we rather like it.

These two are a stripy variation of Sam Lamb’s Baby Professor Vest. Its such a cool and simple knit and lends itself very nicely to stripes. The bigger one is after the original pattern and the smaller one is one I adapted to what I think is a size newborn. However, I am still scared that it might be too small.

I used the Pebble pattern from The Thrifty Knitter for this one. The pattern suggested homespun so I used some homespun I had made out of pure Jacob’s fleece and some fun yellow buttons from the lovely Cathy’s shop in Kolding.