A little bit of this and that

Believe it or not I took this picture this morning. 

I can't remember having this much snow in May ever. 

Yesterday I was a bit feed up with all the snow and wanted to cheer myself up with buying some craft supplies. But then I remembered I have restricted my self from buying new stuff until I have used more of my stash. 

So I went to the second hand store instead. 

I found a lovely floral jacket. But it was not my size. Some how it seems to have found it's way into my bag anyway. 

It just needed a little alternation to fit. 

Unpicking the seams in the side and most of the waist  band and cuffs. 

Adding a side panel from a xxl t-shirt i bought earlier to use for some thing else. 

While I was in a good flow I did the same to another jacket. 

I'm notorious buying clothes that I plan on alter just because I love the fabric. 

When I finished the socks 🧦 I was knitting for my son I realised I was out of knitting and crochet projects. I'm not sure how that is possible. 🙊I always have several projects going on. 

Luckily my hubby reminded me I had promised to make him another pair of felted slippers 👌

I need to find some inspiration so I don't run out of projects. 

I have not done so much mending lately but I did mend some trainers. They was very worn and had spots that I wasn't able to get off. 

I used some cotton thread and wove it in the mesh fabric. 

I think they turned out pretty well 

This is what the shoes looked like before 

I also machine darned a few socks 🧦 

Some with previous darns. I really do prefer to darn by hand 🖐️ 

Snow on apple flowers does look nice 

More snow pictures 

Not really looks like spring 

We are hoping for better weather soon 🔜 

In the mean time I will be busy crafting. 

Thanks for stopping by 🌷

Stay safe and well ❤️ 

Wishing you a lovely weekend 💐

Katrine 🌼 

Crochet hacking

My latest crochet hack is finally ready.
I bought a shiny sequins sweater at our local second hand store @bazarium a while back. Thinking I would make a jacket out of it or something fun.

But it ended up being a sweater after all.
I don't like the short arms and cut them off and crochet a bit between.
I used running stitch as a base for the crochet

The neck line was removed and got a crochet one instead.
I also made it a bit longer removing the ribb and making a crochet one instead using single crochet.


 After finishing I didn't like the sequins and spent quite a lot of time removing them 🙈🙉🙊

And had to make a little seam outside the original seam as I did want the sequence fabric to show.
I spent quite a bit of time hovering up sequence too 😂
They were all over the floor.

 I'm really happy with how it turned out, and I got to use this lovely variegated yarn from my stash. 👍

As usual I had a very good helper