Whenever I have had a spare few minutes this week I have been working on my patchwork for the seat cover in my little crafty den. I have really enjoyed finding the time to sew and I really feel like I am now making progress. I have managed to get some more little rows of squares made up ready just to sew together and then attach to the first block that I made. I chose this time to make rows of 5 blocks this time instead of 4 - this just makes the rest of the numbers work out better - just another block of 5 to go until the seat cover is its full size.
I hope that these will join as successfully as the last ones did.
Today I also had a lovely day celebrating Mother's Day as well as my Nan's birthday by going out for a lovely meal with the family.
When I got home I decided that the next celebration to really start to think about is Easter which is coming up in only a few weeks now. We are having a couple of friends round this year. We're not planning a huge celebration but we thought it might be nice to have a few little special touches compared to a normal Sunday.
I was looking around this afternoon for inspiration and spotted this basket. It was one that we have had for a while now. It originally came with a selection of sweets from the era of my childhood inside and has pretty much ever since been used as a storage basket for the wool that I used for the rainbow ripple blanket.
I had seen a few days ago a pattern online to make some small crocheted eggs. I think that if I make a few of these in different colours and sizes this could be really fun for Easter Sunday. To answer the title of this blog post the egg definitely came first. I started to make a few this evening.
The tiny golden egg is made from some leftover 4-ply yarn that I had from the Christmas table runner that I made in red and white but have decided that it is best not to decorate with anything else as I had planned. The blue and green speckly egg is made from some yarn that I had a tiny amount left of from making some of the baby blankets that I donated to the local hospital for premature babies. I have now also started to make a slightly larger egg by using 2 strands of double knit weight yarn and mixing both pink and yellow together.
What does a basket of eggs need? A chicken of course.
I have found a pattern online to sew a chicken. I hope that once it is done this will be able to sit on top of my little eggs and will make a good Easter decoration.
I have found and printed the pattern off of the Internet and started by cutting out the pattern pieces so far. There was much deliberation about what the perfect chicken colours were and what this should be made out of. Again being the slightly nervous (and possibly slightly cheapskate!) sewer I decided that this could definitely be made from something already in my stash.
I have gone for a brown tweed body. This material came from one of the Crafty Creatives boxes that I got. I have always thought that it was lovely but being only the amount of roughly a fat quarter I wasn't too sure what I was going to make from it or how this would combine with any other materials. It seems it has finally found its destiny as a chicken body.
I will use some of the green checks for the wings. I still have a lot of this left from making my skirt from the double duvet cover that I bought.
And finally I think I will try to change the pattern slightly from what it says to do and make the comb and wattle from the pink checked fabric - previously used to make my sewing bag. I am hoping that I can amend these pattern pieces to include seam allowances and slightly stuff each of the pieces before attaching them to the rest of the chicken.
I am not really a huge fan of using felt for these kind of finishing touches so I hope that this will work on my chicken. The beak (if that's what you call it on a hen) I am not totally sure about yet. This is also a felt piece in the pattern and the way that this is attached I am not sure how I will be able to make this from anything else but I think that this might have to be something that I experiment with towards the end of my make and see if there are any other options that might look a little better.
This week is set to be a pretty busy one so I am not sure how much time there will be for any crafting but I will let you know of any progress that is have made as soon as I can. I still have a couple of longer term projects to share with you so I will see you soon with the progress that I have made on these even if I don't get too much further with these that I have already shared.
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