Happily Ever After

I have made some Wedding Cards from the Happily Ever After series of toppers from Kanban's Love and Marriage collection and wanted to share these with you.  

Not really being a fan of the A5 size card I thought perhaps I should throw my prejudices aside and go larger, after all they are wedding cards and deserve that extra attention right!

It slightly annoys me that most toppers are hard to match up with existing dies I have in my crafty stash.  I believe most people must have similar issues and just mount them on to mirri card unless they find that perfect match!  In this case I found my Romantic Rectangles from Spellbinders fitted the occasion, with only a slight amount of trimming, the topper fitted on the die cut.  


The Congratulations is from a word die set I have from Trimcraft.  These are a favourite brand of dies, not least because sizing is great, but they come with a magnetic storage sheet.  I store mine in an A5 plastic wallet.  In fact all my dies are stored this way and they live in a 12 litre clear plastic storage box on a shelf.

Here are the four cards I made with the toppers.  Isn't it a beautiful die from Spellbinders.  If you don't own this already, I recommend having it.  It cuts like a dream.  In case you are wondering, the champagne glasses were cut from a Marianne designs creatable die.

Enjoy xxx

Persian Tiles - Eastern Jewels crochet blanket

Back in the spring I joined a group on Facebook that were working on making the Persian Tiles, Eastern Jewels crochet blanket.

At first it took some time to get my head around the instructions / stitches but found with the support of the group and their postings, after crocheting a few motifs, it began to fall into place.  It was fun being a member of group that supports each other in encouraging them on and celebrating their achievements.

The blanket has been made as a gift to celebrate my mother in law's 90th Birthday today so it is only fitting that I post this on my blog on her birthday.  Happy Birthday Sheila!  

The blanket took me 3 months to make.  I planned to accomplish making a large octagonal tile per week but during some time off work, I managed to increase this.  The joining together was done on the reverse side of the blanket.

Here are some images of the completed blanket.

Sparkling Engagement

Here are a few cards I have made using the Sparkling Engagement Toppers from Kanban.

It was a great excuse to bling up my cards with pearls.

I really like this style of card as it is nice to have the inside of the card on show.  The little pearl bows that I have had in my crafty stash have found a purpose and I was so pleased when I later discovered I had more of these that I put them on the rest of the cards (not illustrated here).

The rings look great mounted in the frame.

Country Walk by Drops Design

Today's crocheted item is a jacket I have made using Drops Muskat yarn.  

I purchased 15 balls in colour number 15 but actually only needed 13.  The yarn was £1.50 a ball which seems fairly reasonable.

The pattern was quite hard to follow and the although the back and sides were straight forward, the sleeves took a bit of work to get the decreases correct for my shorter than average arms.

The jacket took me 3 weeks to make but now I am comfortable with the instructions I expect I could do another in 2 weeks.  That's great as I do intend to make another one, but perhaps not this winter as I have other projects lined up!

Here is the finished item although it is waiting on some buttons.