Gloves for my Grandma

Who'd have thought that 2016, would start off so busy? How's the start of you're 2016 been?

Where I live, it's suddenly gone very cold and so I thought this change in weather would be the perfect opportunity to crochet something, as I haven't crocheted in a while. When I started crocheting these gloves/ mittens or whatever you want to call then, my Grandma immediately expressed how much she would like a pair like them.

To be fair she had been hinting for a while, that she wanted me to make her something. So I thought why not, if she'd appreciate them, then she's given me a great excuse to make them.

I would love to be able to tell you what wool, I made these out of but I honestly can't remember, as they are left over from various other projects I have completed over the years. Hence the reason why they aren't exactly the same. I basically ran out of wool.

I hope this has inspired you!

Sneak peek of the week

My normal posting schedule has resumed! So here is a sneak peek of what I'm posting about this week.

Most popular posts of 2015

So I wanted to look back over 2015 and I thought the best to do that would be to look at the top 3 most popular posts of 2015.

My Tartan Skirt

The owl dress

Old t-shirts to new pyjama bottoms 

I don't know about you, but I can't wait to see what 2016 has in store.

The Grand Reveal!

So here it is, I'm not going to write much as I'm keen to rejoin my family to enjoy the celebrations.

The unwrapping

Grandma

Mum

Dad

My Sister

In the end my sister, as she her self said, decided to "go solo" and she choose not to match my Granddad.

Granddad (and his interesting way of styling pyjamas)

And finally, Me

I hope you have a very merry Christmas!

Final Wrapping

It's that time again, when I finish wrapping my presents, with Christmas music playing in the back ground.

This year as you know, I've been making pyjama bottoms for everyone who's in the same house as me on Christmas Eve. So when it came to wrapping them, I wanted to make sure that not only where they individually wrapped, but that they where also all in the same place.

This will make it easier to makes sure that they're opened on Christmas Eve. To do this I placed all the individually wrapped presents into a parcel box and wrapped that up and placed it under the tree, with a label explaining that the box needs to be opened on Christmas Eve.

My pan is that everyone gets their present and opens it at exactly the same time, so that it's a surprise as to what's in the wrapping, when everyone first opens their presents. Otherwise if the presents where all opened individually one at a time, it would soon become clear that everyone is getting a set of pyjamas.
If you'd like to see all of the pyjamas, I've included links for them bellow:
The Plan
Pyjama No.1
Pyjama No.2
Pyjama No.3
Pyjama No.4
Pyjama No.5
Pyjama No.6
Pyjama No.7

I hope this has inspired you!

Pyjama No.7

Here it is, the final Pyjama. I hope you've liked this slightly weird series but don't forget there will be a grand reveal soon and an extra post at some point this week.

I made these pyjama bottoms for my Dad. Again I had the same problem with finding fabric, as I did with the pyjama bottoms I made for my Grandfather, there wasn't much selection when it came to buying second hand bed sheets that would make reasonable pyjama bottoms for a man.

Top: Primark (£3.00)

Trousers: Made by me from a second hand pirate themed bed sheet.

I realise that this top is might push the pirate themed trousers over the limit but it's my Dad, I'm sure he'll see the funny side. Besides it was this or getting him an ugly Christmas jumper, so really he got off quite lightly. Also I really struggled to find a top that matched and so in the right size, so I decided to pick up on the white and red in the trousers.

Again the trousers where too long to fit into one photo. For the trousers, I used both the front and the back of the bed sheet, so that one leg would be covered in stripes and the other would show case a pirate ship. You might be starting to see why these pyjamas could be a bit over whelming.

I hope this has inspired you!

Pyjama No.6

Hey, here's another one! I'm so close to finishing them now that I'm starting to get really excited about my family opening them on the 24th and already, I'm forgetting about the stress of making them.

This set is for my Grandfather. I really struggled to find suitable Christmas-ish fabric for the men, so in the end I opted for this angel fabric, which originally came from an awful ruffled bed set from the charity shop. You should have seen the shop assistants face when I went to buy it.

  Top: Primark (£2.50)

Trousers: Made by me, from a second hand bed sheet.

To make the trousers, I 'borrowed' a pair of my Dads trousers, as they're roughly the same size but made them slightly longer. As my Grandfather is a little bit taller than my Dad and yes the trousers where too long to fit into one photo.

When buying a top, I went for a light grey top, mainly because it was the only one I could find in the right size that matched colour wise.

Like I state earlier, I'm so close to finishing. So stay tuned for the last pyjama and the grand reveal.

I hope this has inspired you!