Kaffe Happiness



I bet you all have had a time where you just needed to make something to make you smile. Well these rose petal and lavender bags in a Kaffe Fassett fabric made me smile this week. This awful wrist is still too weak to be practical but it did iron a strip of 2012 hoarded Kaffe. I filled a couple with dried traditional rose petals from the garden, and the other 2 with dried lavender. The smell was heady and uplifting. Just what I needed! I really like how they came out.

I have officially used up all my scraps of cotton yarn in the base of this pot cover. The pot was one I had fired earlier but it has a weak spot in the rim, so hopefully this cover will be practical as well as pretty.

The sides are a row of trebles followed by a row of half trebles and a row of double crochet. I like the effect.

Another tick is finishing off the red 4 ply yarn I moved in with. The hat is a circle base, straight sides, then 2 stitches into every one, to form the brim, and straight afterwards. I think a little girl will like it. I've added it to the Grandma's Motif blanket pile for charity. 

I used Attic 24's Woodland Ripple to finish using these DK yarns. This will be one section of a landscape kind of quilt I will experiment with. 

This is an idea I'm playing with at the moment. Any odd strands and ball ends make a square or get added to this. It wont be beautiful, but I'm hoping that it will be practical enough for an animal charity to be able to use it.

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Anne-Lise at Rag, Tag, Bobtail said…
You make me feel lazy :)) using up odd strands of wool for animal blankets is a good idea, I must ask around if anyone would like some - have got bags of odds and ends.
Remember to let that wrist rest :)
Hugs
9 August 2018 at 07:33
Tracy said…
Rose & lavender bags... summer in lovely little parcels! :) LOVE the Kaffe fabric! I just made a lavender & herb-filled eye bag for when having headaches and such. I used some rice to stretch out the lavender-herb mix. Very soothing having it resting over the eye, or on the forehead--relaxing! And HOORAY for more of your using up the yarn stash! LOVE the pot cover--great idea, and beautiful! The blues ripple is a gorgeous...looking forward to seeing how you'll create you landscape blanket/quilt with this! And, yes, don't forget to stop and rest sometimes... ;) ((HUGS))
9 August 2018 at 09:57
annemariesquilt said…
Hello Melanie... Nice finishes at your place :-) Thank you for your sweet comments on my blogg! Somehow the comments do not reach my mail books, I do not know what is wrong.. Take care ....
9 August 2018 at 18:37
Terri said…
Love your pot cover. You've been busy again.
Hugs
9 August 2018 at 20:07
Ulla said…
Congratulations on your using up your stash so well! The wild granny square is a great idea for those final ends of yarns.
11 August 2018 at 07:49
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