Want to see something really scary...?

My very first Intarsia- made from copying a cross-stitch pattern in Crafts Beautiful.
Here it is - the jumper with the pumpkin pocket and matching cap I knitted for the Crafts Beautiful Forum Hallowe'en Challenge.
Not very scary?
My daughter thought it was scary.
"Don't make me wear it!" She begged. "The whole class will laugh at me!"
"Nonsense!" I said. "University students aren't like that. And if they do, it's just because they're jealous."
Teddy's scared though.
Look- he's trembling.
Boo-boo! bear!

Just when you thought it was safe...

And here is the prize I won from Ultramum for :

Jonathan's Alien Challenge.

Is that alien enough for ya?

Another Crafts Beautiful Forum Challenge!

Yay!

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Animal Sewing/Knitting Challenge

Here is the Cat I knitted while in Canada while riding shotgun in the car.
It's called Spot - naturally.
The mice are Ripley and Missy because we were watching the Incredible Mr. Ripley
and then The Missing while I was knitting them.
I smuggled them in pieces back through the customs and then did my Igor bit,
stitching them together for the Crafts Beautiful Forum Challenge.
And giving them !LIFE!
Good luck, me!
They are from a pattern in Knitting a few months ago.

Vintage Birthday Card

This is the card I made from Let's Make Cards Vintage Kit 18 for the CB Challenge on craftsbeautiful.com Forum in October.

There were some fab entries.

I made this for my cousin's birthday - and as she's called Rose the embellishments were highly appropriate!

I used the A4 support card in the pack as the base card, and punched out windows in a beige card for the centre, using the shapes as tags, and punched tiny envelopes from the papers to holdmore of the pictures.

The top picture shows the inside.



















This is the front.

I have made some folds on the right hand side for effect, and hung some tag on ribons.

The left has a panel cut from the kit's brown card.
and the paper buckle slides up and down.
the corners were in the kit too.

Apart from peel-offs everything came from the Kit -and I've masses left!

Well done, me!

Beady I's

More stuff wot I made from beads and things.
These very simple ear-rings are from pendant charms I bought in Hobbycraft a couple of years back.
They were near the button section and just begged to be made up into ear-rings.
I love red.

These green beads were also from Hobbycraft.
I was looking for some to match a necklace of a friend in Clydebank Writer's
who was off to a Big Do.
I had extra so I made this.
These pre-formed wires are so good!
I made this one at Waunifer in Wales .
I won a Crafty Break there from a Crafts Beautiful Giveaway in 2007.
I had a wonderful time away from everyone and just time all to myself in Duck Cottage- and crafting.
This set was a mixture of Fimo (lilac beads) made by me, and pink, pearl and clear glass (the rest).
I think it's lovely and subtle.
Clever me!

CHOKE ON IT!

I've just made these three choker necklaces.

The one above is crocheted from black/gold cord, threaded with a narrow yellow velvet ribbon, and hung with a glass bead.

This one is knotted and plaited embroidery skeins - orange, purple and blue threaded with tiny glass beads of the same three colours.

The third one is made from an off-cut of denim ( shortening legs of Daughter's jeans). I cut off the seams, took one half, slit it almost to the end, tied it in a knot (the way we used to do with bandages) and stuck on a silvery ear-ring and some pearly beads.

Fastened at the back with a punky safety pin!