Every year I make jam, chutney, fruit vodkas, cider, wine and assorted other preserves.
2014
- crochet granny squares - 45
- sewed together fabric squares to make more 9 patch squares
- pieced together the strips of squares to make the quilt top,
- 4 more crochet cotton dish clothes made
- Many small sewing repair jobs carried out
- Needle felted flowers, motifs, small animals as gifts.
- Fabric bag
- Fabric purses x 2
- Fabric cover for note pad
- Cut lots of fabric from charity shop and rag bag at home, for quilting
- cut up lots of cotton tops to make quilting/crochet/rags.
- Handmade paper, notebooks.
- Many handmade cards and envelopes, made from handmade paper and recycled magazines :-)
- Interlocking origami gift boxes made from reused, expensive (!) scrap store gotten wallpaper sample books
- Soap made 5 bars (some as gifts)
- Balm made (beeswax and oils) 5 jars (some as gifts)
- altered 5 tops to fit Compostgirl
- altered 3 pairs of trousers to fit Compostgirl
- Repaired 5 shirts for Compostman
- Mended 2 pairs of Jeans
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2013
- crochet granny squares - 85
- sewed together fabric squares to make 9 patch squares
- pieced together the strips of squares to make the quilt top,
- part quilted the ( king sized) throw
- eight more crochet cotton dish clothes made
- Many sewing repair jobs carried out!
- Cut lots of poly cotton shirts from charity shop and rag bag at home, for quilting
- cut up lots of cotton tops to make quilting fabric.
- Handmade paper, notebooks.
- Many handmade cards and envelopes, made from handmade paper and recycled magazines :-)
- Interlocking origami gift boxes made from reused, expensive (!) scrap store gotten wallpaper sample books
- Soap made 10 bars (some as gifts)
- Balm made ( beeswax and oils) 10 jars (some as gifts)
- altered 3 tops to fit Compostgirl
- altered 4 pairs of trousers to fit Compostgirl
- Repaired 3 shirts for Compostman
- Mended 6 pairs of Jeans
2012
- Compostgirl's duvet - restored to full use by a fabric flower and some needlework :-)
- Papercastings, painted and used for gifts(plaques, as brooches, mounted on cards, etc)
- Handmade paper, notebooks.
- Many handmade cards and envelopes, made from handmade paper and recycled magazines :-)
- Interlocking origami gift boxes made from reused, expensive (!) scrapstore gotten wallpaper sample books
- The crochet lap rug. My first hand made crochet item as I only learned in May 2012
- Tea cosy replacement liner. Very expensive tea cosy, liner fell apart - I replaced it with a nce bit of fabric cut from a cotton t shirt
- Crochet cotton face flannel and drink coaster
- Many, many mending, alterations and repairs in clothing
- Crochet cotton dishcloths
- Knitted cotton dishcloths
- Many rag dusters, neatly hemmed.
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