Plain white t-shirt

Boring shirt --------> Less boring shirt!

I saw this post on Trash to Couture about adding crochet trim down the sides of a t-shirt which is what I was going to do with this plain white t-shirt, until I thought that putting the crochet trim round the middle would look better.

This piece of crochet has been in the fabric drawers forever, so it was nice to finally find a use for it.

I cut the t-shirt across the middle as straight as possible and hand-sewed the crochet to the two pieces.

Bit more skin on show. Goodness!

I also cut a new neckline for the shirt and gathered the middle for a more flattering fit.

My Mum very kindly crocheted some new trim for the neckline to match the original stuff.

She's got skills.

Have you got an favourite ways to fancy up a plain white t-shirt?

Christmas Lights

Whilst perusing the internet I found a pattern for crocheted Christmas lights and decided that I needed some of those.

So I asked my Mum nicely and she agreed to make them for me.

(She did crochet a Doctor Who for my sister, so it's only fair)

You can find the pattern here.

The only question now is what shall I do with them?

I did consider sewing them to the front of a red jumper to make an obnoxiously festive sweater, but that might be kind of uncomfortable...

More hairbands

Things I need more of :

Words on my dissertation.

Things I don't need more of :

Hair bands.

So guess what I did this weekend...

Made more hair bands!

Yay!

Well, assembled more hair bands, rather than 'made'.

I just took some of the butterflies my Mum crocheted and attached them to some new elastic hair bands that I bought.

I've used these butterflies to make necklaces before, some of which you can find in my Etsy shop.

*cough* shameless promotion *cough*

Here and here.

Is ombre hair still on trend?

I hope so, because I'm never on trend but as my dyed hair (that I dyed well over a year ago and was supposed to be semi-permanent!) grows out it's kinda looking that way. Aces!

And welcome to new followers!

And of course hello to y'all who have been with me for longer.

Thanks for being here.

I wish blogger had a better way to reply to comments to we could actually have a proper, like, conversation.

Or as we say in the art school world 'start a dialogue'.

Doctor Who?

Remember this post?

Well the Doctor Who loving strikes again. Only this time it was all my Mum and sister's doing.

Not that my Mum loves Doctor Who. It's just she's the only one of us who knows how to crochet.

It's a crocheted plush David Tennant!!!

The pattern is from the Pixelated Mushroom who has loads of Who related patterns and other geekery.

Here he is preparing to fight aliens....on the washing line....

Oh hi!

Crochet Beads

 My Mum offered to make some crocheted beads for me after we saw some in Hobbycraft (otherwise known as my favourite place ever).

When they were done I threaded them onto some ribbon to make a necklace.

My Mum also tried making one using a ping-pong ball but I can't decide if it looks too big as part of the necklace. 

So I took it off to have it like this.

And I also tried spacing out the beads for a different look.

Which one do you prefer?

Hat-cessories

My Mum crochets the hats and I make the brooches. It's a winning combo!