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More Christmas presents...

...but this time for a different little girl.  I didn't expect to have sewing time at this stage of my life, but I'm led to believe that when Charlie starts growing up a bit my sewing time disappears.  So, while he's sleepy I'm trying to make the most of it and made this little pinafore for my 2.5 year old niece.  It's from a fabulous Japanese book with patterns for toddlers - both boys and girls for a change!  A pleasant change if you have a boy, and I do believe there will be a few things cranked out from this book over the next couple of years. The ISBN is 978-4-579-11184-8, and it's worth tracking down if you have little ragamuffins in your life.  I bought my copy at Kinokuniya in Sydney.

 

It went together surprisingly quickly, and I'm pretty pleased with it.  I used a lightweight striped denim, and the yoke facing is a rodeo novelty fabric - perfect for my niece growing up in the country with horses (and a passion for them). 

And I actually have something else to blog about, but I've just got a wee bit of hand finishing to get out of the way first.  Happy days. 

And joy of all joys, my gorgeous boy slept for 11 hours straight last night at the ripe old age of 7 weeks.  Good boy!

Christmas presents for little girls

I'm not particularly imaginative at the moment - I made some of these for my other niece about 12 months ago but my sister really loved the tops like these I made for her girl so I went for tried and tested over exciting and new (phew, that was a long sentence but it's kind of how the old brain is working at the moment):

 

The pattern was bought in Japan - a single pattern in an envelope rather than an exciting magazine we all know and love - and the fabrics are from Spotlight last summer.  Quite nice cottons actually.  And I made an extra for someone else's little girl. 

If you're making one, you might as well make three, right?

Why blogging is good

Blogging is good because it makes you finish things.  This had been three quarters done for weeks.  I needed something to blog about so hey presto I found the time to finish it - I don't want to fall off the wagon this time! 

 

The pattern is from a Japanese book called simply "Amigurumi Book" by Tomoko Takamori (ISBN 987-4-529-04171-3).  Very cute book with lots of very cute things.  This was fiddly as I did it with smaller yarn/hook than the pattern called for, and it's about 15cm tall (6"), so really fiddly.  But funny.  And good for small hands.  Henrik insisted I put the tongue in.  I nearly didn't, but I'm glad I did because it's very fetching I think.

Thanks so much to all the lovely comments on my last post.  My intention is to get back to all of you asap, but apologies if it takes a little while...