I thought I would share a quick make with you all. I had some fabrics lying around and wanted to make a Patchwork baby blanket for my youngest daughter. I wanted something lightweight that i could use when out and about, but at the same time wanted something warm. I decided to do a patchwork quilt that was backed with a minky fleece lining to make it nice and snugly.

I felt it was lacking something at this stage, and decided to add a crochet border. I had some 4ply cotton that I brought and hadn't done anything with, so I set to work. 

I started by using a large needle and sewing a blanket stitch around the outside of the blanket, making each stitch about and inch apart. Once i had completed this, I ran a round of dc, placing 4 dc in each stitch space and 3 dc into the corners.

After this round I joined with a ss, then dc, skip 2 dc, 5 tr, skip 2 dc, repeat until corners. 3 tr into corners.

 

I have done a few of these blankets, they make fab baby shower gifts :)

 

Minion Beanies

So my past few weeks have been spent perfecting these little beauties! Inspired by my daughters love of Despicable Me, I felt they needed to be done. That also led to friends putting in their requests. Its Kept me busy!

 

For my very first post I'm going to share one of my latest makes. I stumbled across this chandelier on Tesco's website. Thinking it would be fab for my girls room and not having the budget that would stretch to buy it, I set about trying to create something similar with slightly less pennies. I also thought it would be too long to hang from their ceiling, so decided to hunt for something I could upcycle.

I managed to find this rather drab chandelier style light fitting on a Facebook selling page, for the grand sum of £3!! I love a bargain!! (please excuse the table, that's a project for another day...)

 

I then decided that I was going to spray paint the whole thing pink. I also decided that I wanted to have lots of faceted beads to shimmer in the light, I found these quite cheap on eBay. I chose both acrylic and glass in a variety of colours. I also have a fresh shabbychic theme that I want to run in their room, so I also wanted some 'ditsy/flowery' beads and some pearls thrown in there as well. A friend also gave me some tear drop acrylic Christmas decs and a wedding cake decoration that have also been thrown in for good measure.

 

I Started by priming the light fitting and then applied a few layers of the pink spray paint. I also decided to incorporate some decoupage on the ceiling rose and then moved on the working out how I was going to arrange the beads, this took a few attempts, but I decided on the arrangement below.

 

 

I'm pleased with how it turned out and can't wait to put it up in their room. I spent less then £20 on all of the items I needed and have some spray paint and loads of beads left over for another project :)