That's the name of the blanket, it was a new stitch for me.
Wool was a variety colour and I used two and a half balls, approx 500grams.
It measures 150 by 150,I could have done more but decided that was big enough.
Very easy once I got going with it, took about two weeks with a couple of other things worked on in between.
The orange legs are meant to pull through to a certain extent but I did use two different types of wool as I am on a no buying any more wool at the moment so using up what I have.
I did the body twice and then decided that the legs were too big to pull through properly so they are stitched in place. Hopefully some kid will get enjoyment out of it.
I have made a second one from all cotton, it's finished just need to stuff the body and then sew the sides together, it has turned out much smaller although still with very long legs 20cms I think or 104 rows.
Once a year, this charity has a delivery point at Bunnings for a few days in November.
Basically, it's bags for women who have suffered domestic violence or just doing it tough.
I heard about it a couple of years ago and did my first drop then. Last year I had bags ready to go but the week it was available was the week we had to isolate because of COVID.
I did add a few things and ended up with four bags. I had planned for one of each category mum and bub, woman and teenager.
I had been given two quite large green bags and I bought two other bags at an op shop.
Socks, knickers, soap shampoo toothpaste and brush, nail polish hand cream, no medications are allowed or food items.
Our crochet group decided to make some things for the giving tree at the local mall.
I had been gifted our tshirt yarn and made owl bowls from it. Type of a holdall for the bathroom or dressing table. I lined them with fabric from my stash and then filled them with toiletries that I though a young girl would like. Hair ties, nail polish, brush and comb, pretty soaps and bath bombs.
The Christmas " tree" this year is like a large wooden box with a shoot on one side to put the articles down keeping them safe from prying or even light fingered harm.
I ended up putting the owl bowls with their goodies inside in a snap lock plastic bag and "posted" them last week.
Working on some toys and PJs to add in the next few weeks.
With my purchase from Holland, I also bought ten balls of orange cotton. I have a pattern for a fox that I thought the orange would be very suitable.
Then I saw a summer cardigan made in white that I liked but I had already set my challenge to not buy any more wool or yarn for the rest of the year and next year.
Light bulb moment, ten balls of orange cotton that I have. I know that I can't wear yellow even though I love the colour it doesn't do anything for them at all. I had avoided orange as well, then someone in China gave me an orange scarf and it seemed to suit so orange is one of my colours.
I had my colours done several years ago and then I suited jewel colours, bright pink and orange were amongst my colour scheme.
I have a use for my cotton but ten balls wasn't enough, they are only 50gram balls, luckily in my stash I did have four balls of darker orange.
My summer light weight cardigan! It's not as long as I would normally wear and has 3/4 sleeves, no buttons. Just to put on in cooler evenings. Took me six days to make it 0lus 13 balls from my stash.
I usually buy wool or yarn that I like and then decide what I will do with it.
One of my purchases earlier in the year was cotton from a company in Holland. I bought five packs of ten balls ranging from white to black.
I thought it would make a great light weight blanket and set about making large granny squares using six of the colours, starting with white ending with black.
Each square is slightly different as I started with four rows in each colour but if course as it gets bigger, it takes more yarn to do a row so I had to change and do more rows in the middle so that I didn't run out of the black. Rather than stitch the squares together like I have done in the past, I crocheted these together, so much easier and quicker.
It measures 150 by 150. I was thinking of doing a border but I only had a small amount of black left so would need to be a lighter colour or order some more. Nah, think I will just wash it and that's it.
Last week, we were back to do parkrun at our local park. There was a volunteer from Ipswich who took the photographs.
Warren with some of his running mates, they are around the same age, first second and third in their age group.
