Christmas Hand-made gift (part 1)

On Sunday 24th of June (2012) I started to think about Christmas, after all it was only six month's til Christmas Eve.  So like I always do I wrote and a list of people I needed to buy or make gifts for and wrote down the things they like.  I really wanted to make the gift's that had a little bit of love put into making the them, than those you buy in the shop's!

While surfing the net to find ideas - I came across a TY Beanie Baby of Mr Bean's Teddy. I first thought prefect, then saw the price near £6.00 - I was like I am not paying that! Like you do :-)  Then I wondered if there was a knitting pattern for Mr Bean's Teddy and yes there is.....

So I got my bag of wool out to find the colours out for Teddy

and my knitting needles and set to work.

I made Teddy for my brother as he love's Mr Bean film's and televison progamme's.

Also my brother about a month before had bought him self a Classic Austin Mini!

So I had decided to play on that fact! 

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Little Flowers

Back in May while knitting the poppies.  I wondered what they may look like in different colour's!

So the next day I decided to have a day off from poppy making,  to experiment with 

different colours - also bright ones too!

Here are some of the colours!

I have been thinking about ways to use them, apart from the brooch like way! I firstly thought of putting one on a Alice band and another one or three on a bag. 
Maybe even a charm or Keyring! 


I have not yet had chance to experiment on my ideas.   Due to work and family stuff!
So some think for me work on in the next few weeks! 

The Humble Poppy (Part 2)

I thought I would up-date you all on how we got on with the poppies!

The poppies went on sell at the end of October and within a few days they were sold out. My mum and I (plus some others) were busy knitting to try and keep up with the demands...

Over £1000 was raised and the money went to the poppy appeal..  So the race is on for next year to make enough and yep you guess it,  I've started already!

I will also keep you all posted how we do this year coming!!! 

Aunt's Birthday card (1)

Two weeks ago I started planning and designing my aunt's Birthday card.  I made a list of all the things that she likes, just like my Unlces 70th (which is her hubby).  My aunt is into fish's, westie's (dogs), cats and knitting. The theme I went for was fish, cats and knitting. I'm going to do westie's for Christmas, which I'm going to be making in the next few weeks. 

 I knew I was going to use the same template as
 my mum's 'mother day card'. 

Last week I did an special order for some die-cut cats, fish and knitting needles.  I found the cat and the fish, well fishbowl with fish, but could not find any think to do with knitting.  So I made my order and waited, I only needed to wait a day before my small parcel came.

I got out my craft mat, knife, double-sided sticky tape, embossing tool, ruler and sticky pads.  Then I looked out a peach colour card and envelope.  Then I popped the envelope to one side and opened up the card and layed it down on the mat.   I then took my embossing tool and ruler to mark the line across the top of one side of the card .  Then I took my craft knife and cut along the line I had made.


I used the same wrapping paper as I did for my mum's 'Mothers day card'.   This time I used the striped paper as the backing. Once I had stuck down the backing paper I made two square's from the same coloured card stock as the card and stuck on the wrapping paper.

I took the piece's to the fishbowl and made that up.  Then I got two cocktail sticks out and some pink wool. I then cast on about six stitches and knitted some row, it was hard work. But I got there in the end!  I then got some beads out and cut the end of the cocktail stick off.  I got out my trim-it glue and stuck the beads onto the end of each stick and made a little ball of wool. Then I stuck the knitting down onto the one of the squares I had made, and left that to set.  I got one of the cats out of the little bag (of 10) that the their came in, I had a small bit of card left over from the square's so I used that for the nose and two little gems for the eyes.

After that it was time to stick on the items. So I got my sticky-pads and stuck the square of the knitting on the left hand side in the middle of the card. I then got the fish bowl and again popped sticky-pads on and pop the fish bowl down the bottom on the right hand side of the card, just over lapping the square with the knitting on.  After that I did the same with the cat, but this time I pop the him up the top on the right hand side.

Please find picture's below:

To finish the card off, I cut to size an insert (saying: Wishing You A Very Happy Birthday). I popped a strip of double-sided sticky tape on one side of the insert and popped that in.

Please let me know what you think of the card..
I am now on twitter @Dorsetbotanybee

P.S... My uncle loved his Birthday card! I should find out over the weekend what my aunt thinks of the her card, I have a gut feeling she will love it!

The humble Poppy

Last November I noticed a lot of people was wearing a knitted Poppy for the build up to remembrance Sunday.  After asking a few people I found out that they were being sold and the money was going to Help The Heroes.  But no one could tell me where to get the pattern from.

Until the second week of January (2012), a friend of my mum.

Popped round with a pattern to asked would we consider to help make some Poppy's to sell for charity.

We both said yes we would love too.

Since then we have been busy knitted.

Here's one of our little poppy's

I will keep you all posted on how we get on.

New Knitting

At chritstmas one of my pressys were 'new' knitting looms

This is one thing I have been looking at for a while now!

So as you can guess I was so happy when I opened up this pressy to finded this inside!!

I could not wait to get these out to try. 

I will let you all know how I get on.