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A Little Secret

I'm working on a new project, here's a very little sneak peak, just for funsies!

Haylz x

 

My First Crochet Project

 

When my mum was about 19 she crocheted this blanket. It's a traditional granny square but supersized! I remember first seeing it at my grandmothers place years ago and loving the colours, but my mother hates them. "Nan had a thing for Autumn tones, yuck." she says. I remember planning to make the same blanket one day, typing the pattern of colours as a note into my old mobile phone (back in the day of the old Nokia 3110, there were no mobile phone cameras just yet!), then promptly forgot all about it.

A few years later I was home from uni holidays and came across the blanket in the linen closet, mum said I could have it and I was stoked. I took it back to uni with me and kept it at the end of my bed for years. I love having something that my mother created so young, and it reminds me that my crafty behaviours don't just come out of thin air.

A couple of months ago whilst in the studio with Bo Banta I started crocheting my own granny square blanket. It's my first attemp, and I've been a touch lazy with it of late, but I'm starting to pick it up again. I'm planning for it to be big enough to cover our bed.

 
 

I'll keep you posted with my progress!

Haylz x

Uni Flashback

This evening I did not do a lot. I wasn't feeling too crash hot so my original plans to head to the gym for a pump class then follow it up with a few drinks at Freaky Tiki fell through, and I spent the majority of the evening watching 30 Rock, stuffing my face full of Crust pizza and trying to perfect my cover of "Crazy in Love" by Beyonce. Charming, I know. Then, whilst rummaging through my fabric cupboard for heaven-knows-what I stumbled upon somthing that I haven't touched since my second year of University - bags!

My uni was out west so I had to move away fromhome to attend, and given that it was also one of the more particularly laid back unis in Aus, I also had around 13 face-to-face hours per week. So other than working around 20hrs and, well, socialising, I had a HEAP of free time on my hands to create. So I did. I also received a Janome from my lovely Grandmother in the same year so I went on a bit of a sewing rampage - the main project was these calico bags that I used to customise with felt (see below!).

In my third year I was sharing a room so my sewing got a little left behind, then in my fourth I was an RA, ran the uni paper and had a BF all on top of finishing my double degree - so my time was significantly tighter. But finding these has sparked my creative bone and got me thinking about picking it up again... hmm...

Haylz x