What are you making?

I knit all the time but I bought myself a sewing machine 9 months ago and need to get down to using it for something. I have a pattern for patchwork bags I would like to try. I did a crochet course 2 years ago but I've only done one blanket in granny squares and not picked it up since. I would like to have some discipline and do something other than knitting. So much wool so little time.

I'm planning to finish a taperstry cushion cover of VW camper vans which I'm making for my 5 year old GS's room. It was meant to have been completed for his 4th birthday, so I'm behind schedule. Also I'm going to use my Inktense pencils to create a card of some sort.

I am planning to do some more Smilestones ~ painted rocks that you hide to give someone a smile when they find it. Have a Pinterest board where I post lots of great ideas and I am going to try and take one out with me whenever I go anywhere different. Amazing how far they travel ~ someone posted a picture on FB of a stone found on a beach in the Caribbean ??

Getting back into sewing after many years. Currently making felt animals, embroidery and on the cards is making summer dress over the coming months.

I'm 'planning' to make two new cupboards out of currently empty spaces. Have a feeling I might be saying the same thing next year! I've made a good start on the theory though........

I’m a weaver and have two wall-hanging commissions planned and one scarf project just started.
I love weaving as you can work with the thickest or thinnest of threads. It does need lots of planning but it’s the most miraculous and satisfying craft I know.

If I were to try something new it would be Battenburg lace - probably much easier lace than yours, Growing0ldDisgracefully, but beautiful just the same. Also, I would also love to find someone with an old Cornelli machine to have a go with. My daughter used one at university and it looked pretty simple. The “embroidery” was so striking though.

Currently finishing off this year's Advent calendar I haven't numbered it yet but was planning to use Lakeland chocs which had numbers which made a Father Christmas picture. I thought After Eights might do as an alternative.

Growing0ldDisgracefully - have just googled Honiton lace and love it! So pretty. And how beautiful is the contrast between the little “woven” strips and the “twiddly bits”.

Oh, I'd hoped this might be a thread on things to cook for Hogmanay, having just received and invite to neighbours tonight.......

Have done papercraft for years. I am now doing a lot of mixed media & learning to paint. Have some nice canvases waiting to be put up when decorations come down.

Try to finish the lovely scarf with the pattern and wool I purchased in Victoria Canada two years ago. I may have to unpick it though and start again, as I cannot remember where I am up to and it is not easy to tell.

Absolutely nothing!

Knitted three teddies, made a child's cot quilt and a quilted Xmas table runner plus knitted three scarves for presents... so am having a short break; B4 I make next years gift tags and cards from this yrs xmas cards; then I will finish my GD sgl bed quilt, knit some fingerless gloves ( friends request) and soon will be looking out for Seville oranges for my marmalade! Phew exhausted just writing it all down!!

Cross stitching samplers for special occasions and probably more poppies in the autumn. I also have a quilt to complete - only 10 years behind schedule

Right now I'm having a crafting break as I have the most dreadful cold. But it's not stopping me planning projects for the New Year. My first project will be to create 3 pairs of full length curtains for our kitchen/diner. I say create rather than make as I will buy ready made lightweight curtains and hand paint and stencil a summer meadow design on the lower half of each curtain - think poppies, cornflowers, cow parsley, rambling ivy, butterflies, swallows and perhaps the odd squirrel. I want each curtain to be different but for each pair to create a 'scene', if that makes sense. It sounds ambitious (even to me) but painting on fabric is easy and great fun.

Later in the year I will be making Christmas stockings and Santa sacks for the village Christmas Fair.

I was also given a candlemaking kit for Christmas, something I have never done before, so that will be fun to experiment with.

And I really should get to grips with my overlocker which I've had about two years but only used a few times. Getting the tension right for various types of fabrics seems to be unnecessarily difficult, so more practise needed I think.

A Happy New Year to everyone and good luck with all your crafting ambitions.

I'm on the lookout for some good Tunisian crochet patterns, as I've just taught myself how, and I'm collecting Tunisian crochet hooks!

I made some peg doll and snowmen Christmas decorations to sell for the hospice, but had some left. Made a baby blanket with the parents' initials in the middle for expected grandchild due February, they wanted bamboo, which is very expensive, but turned out okay I hope!

Will start on baby clothes now I think.

This is the fifth pram cover that I have made in this pattern. I really like it, and I'm thinking of making some for charity, using up some of my yarn stash! Currently knitting doll's clothes for DGD. They are so 'scuttery' ,but, a labour of love!

I’m an amateur painter so hoping to sell some pieces next year to recoup some of the framing costs.

What a crafty lot! I've finally found a few things basic enough for me to knit while I'm watching TV - chunky scarves for our local Oxfam shop's appeal for warm clothes for local homeless people, and hats for premature babies. If I had a granddaughter I'd be resurrecting my favourite old craft of smocking and embroidery, but I can't see any of my grandsons appreciating anything on those lines.

After many years as a seamstress making everything from cushions to wedding dresses, in retirement this Christmas my only "makes" were outfits for the grandchildren's favourite cuddly toys. So Dexter the PG Tips chimp got a silky shirt, suede trousers & an embroidered Christmas jumper....Bluey the Ty Penguin apparently only needed a ghost costume & mask, to scare Pinky his Penguin friend!

I've promised DH an Aran sweater and I am just waiting for my favourite woolshop to open when I can get 15% of the price which on a garment like that is well worth waiting for. In the meantime I am knitting a lovely Aran hoodie for a f. friends daughter. I've done it so many times I don't nrrd the pattern but it is very popular.

Apologies for the typos - I'm using my phone not the laptop!

I am currently crocheting a holder for the remote controls. Going to attach velcro to each remote with a long crocheted 'ribbon' to the holder. Hopefully, this will work and none go missing. Next project is a crocheted Winnie the Pooh for a friend of a friend's baby expected in February. Third one I will have done and a little bit fed up with them (including all the other characters). I then intend knitting a shawl as complicated as possible.

That reminds me - I must have a sort out of my stash of yarn. I’m sure I’ve got enough to knit another jumper and the rest I will use to crochet a blanket to throw over my sofa.