What are you making?

I'm going to try and finish some quilting projects too. I must finish the quilted balls...nothing like being prepared for next Christmas!

The doll on the right in the front of the picture needs a new cloth body and new lower arms and legs.

She apparently has had a hard life, before I found her in a jumble sale. All her china fingers are missing and her lower legs and feet have been broken and replaced with old plastic, which is now cracking up. The cloth of her body has rotted, so her arms are falling off.

I have a pattern for her new body, but am currently trying to find affordable arms and legs, but will probably have to make them myself.

started a slipover for my DGS who's 4 with wool I've had for ages - just realised that I've got to the armhole shaping and am using a slightly smaller needle (3.25 rather than 3.5) so hope it won't matter!!! Not much of a knitter but it's a simple pattern (I hope )

Ooh!! You are a clever lot.
I can’t knit, crochet, or quilt or embroider.

Although I did some patchwork cushions way back in the eighties. I don’t seem to have any creative flair anymore.
Patchwork sewn by hand is very fiddly and I just can’t be bothered.
Do you sew by hand, love Beige Cardigans1955?

I got a present of a needle felting kit and have been trying it, but looking for interesting ideas. The ones in the book with kit don’t appeal to me much- I’d like to make nice flower brooches. Flowerofthewest is trying it too I think.

I was lucky to receive two knitting books for Christmas. One is ‘Knitted animal scarves, mitts and socks’ and the other is ‘Knitted pirates, princesses,witches and fairies’
Know which project to dive into first. Plenty of wool in my stash too!

Stansgran. That quilting in the photo is beautiful! Please could you tell a beginner how to get started?

I'm currently making my own version of a bedcover/day bed throw, because I have to lie down so often now due to pain. I am using a very thin something like 2tog summer duvet that seems to be made of washable paper (!) and am sewing a lovely piece of pretty, (looks like a Liberty print) but inexpensive poly cotton fabric one side and a brightly patterned fleece fabric the other then making a quilted/puffy effect by "Buttoning" it in a diamond pattern with little daisy embroideries - yet to invent these! It will all be washable. The idea came to me because the thin duvet was horrible with a duvet cover as it slid about.

I always make all my Christmas cards and, at the moment, I'm working out the design for next Christmas' batch. Well organised? Sometimes!

Billybob4491 If you can knit such complicated things then you would find crochet easy! Honestly! I'm in awe of your chef and cake and all... Amazing! I taught myself to crochet - and knit come to that as my mother was most discouraging! I took up crochet because my knitting needles used to jab into people sitting next to me on the bus coming home from school. You could probably work it out without even using a book, to be honest!
Good luck with all your amazing creations!
I'm on a wool and fabric amnesty at the mo while my house is being repaired and there's too much to do à propos of that. Too much mess around and I'm too busy trying to paint what I can within my limitations - disabilities. Missing it though.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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 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.

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!

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.

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

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!!

Absolutely nothing!

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.

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.