My Creative Space - Strawberries

I haven't officially posted about it yet - but I have joined in the sew-a-thon over at Describe Happy. Our first project that we are embarking on is strawberry pincushions. (Recognise my crochet phone sock from here, and here? It's kinda the same as the knit pattern from here and here)

The first one I made I sent to Karen as as a little "I appreciate you" gift. I made some changes to the pattern as I decided to hand stitch the strawberry top instead of machining it, and then I added a little detail down the middle of each leaf section. I'm not sure it I will do the leave detail in the new ones or not.

I am now in the process of making a larger one for Jess, who won my Valentines Giveaway, and a bunch more of them  - because... well... they are just fun. I will find someone to give them all to :D

These creative people might inspire you to make something today too...

First Day of Spring!

Yay! I have been waiting for Spring to arrive since (it seems) forever, and now it has finally arrived. And with it some explosions of wonderful.

Some strawberries that the Jellyfish, Little Clam and Mr. Kelp helped me eat for lunch. These were a first for Little Clam, and he seemed to have an exquisite time revelling in the squishy sweet juiciness of it all!

Some sweet Daisy thing that decided to put itself in my veggie patch

Some Clivias just coming out in my garden. Sadly these are a little sunburned.

Freesias.

Spraxus.

A miniature Azalea.

AND...

A GIVEAWAY! :) Aneela of Comfortstitching is having a giveaway of some of her gorgeous quilting scraps. Pop into her site to have a look and enter.

Lots of lovely designs to play with (if you win!).