Miniature Knitting Patterns 3" Sean

I had made a very similar design called Antionette but I found it a little too wide, so have reduced the width of the skirt and knitted it with a different stitch calling it                                                                                                                                               

 

AVA for SEAN

The pattern includes, dress, 2 bonnets, knickers and booties.

Days of Our Lives

This is a GOOD DAY as I received such wonderful news yesterday!

Hi Sharon

Congratulations and well done! This is a brief email to confirm that on Sunday, May 1, 2011, you were elected a Fellow member of The Guild by the IGMA Board of Trustees. 

Best regards

Pat Hartman

The box was made for me by Brian Coetzee a South African wood artist, he made it for me in a week which was extraordinary to say the least. I love the masculinity of the box..... then upon opening it one see's all these feminine little things

I have this stupid grin on my face that is so very difficult to remove......I thought I would share some pictures of my submission.

A friend Ana Esteves made the little teddy, bunny and lamb. The teddy and bunny have moving arms, legs and head. They have been flocked and are perfect replicas of a large teddy, they are only 1 inch BIG/SMALL. Ana also did the flowers for me, at that point after my Mom had died I simply was not up to it any more.

            

   

I used Madeira Catona 80 thread for all the outfits.
They were made to fit the 

Belly Button Baby

I hope you enjoy!

      

SEASONAL

Happy Easter to You All

My special Bunny with her Easter Bonnet wishes you the same and welcomes all new followers to my blog 
Elly, Connie, Beatrice, Jan, Rosa, Miss Amelia, Olga, Ana, Morena
Thank you!

 

Taking her out the cupboard ready to put her in a box box which will accompany me to Cape Town, made me realize what my treasures actually are.

I am beginning to feel that my car won't be big enough! 

I am so enjoying reading the blogs of miniaturists, you feel like friends somehow not just pictures on a website.
Great fun to see what you are up to and looking at blogs with similar tastes to ones own.

Days of Our Lives

One of the most important eras in South African History

was the "Great Trek" from the Cape to the interior of South Africa. 

I am now doing the whole process in reverse.

 As much as I am looking forward to it all I know I will miss this little cottage and my two "landladies" with their 12 poodles. 

Julie my Yorkie has become an honorary poodle.

She looks so cute amongst the river of poodles when I go and fetch her. 

She always had a play date if I went out shopping for more than a few hours.

I can see me buying another little girl to keep Julie company, that will be so much fun and help celebrate new beginnings.

The boxes from the removal firm arrived today and packing starts tomorrow...three weeks today the huge truck will be in the road and packed to the rafters, and I will have my last sleep as an official resident of Durban.

I opted on packing myself as each and everything is going to be studied carefully and much stuff is going to be gone over with a very fine tooth comb, before it finds a home in Cape Town.

I have given notice to all my friends who were kind enough to look after things for me, that I will be collecting shortly, friends have been so kind. 

Am I happy now that I did not sell anything.

Can't wait to get my dishwasher back....silly but I can't say I enjoy washing dishes.

I'll also have a studio again yeah! yeah! yeah! 

All I want to do is play with fimo, I'm all knitted out at the moment. 

I know my box of goodies for my fellow application has arrived in US of A 

DHL tracking has told me so. This is a great relief. 

Never in my wildest dreams did I think knitting for fellow could take so many hours and so many decisions. 

A bottle of Boschendal Le Bouquet 

which is a delicious white South African wine, which has a delightful fruitiness, 

was shared with my friend in celebration of a job completed at last.

I look forward to sharing the photographs  of the box, but need to wait until after judgment day. 

Even if it turns out to be a no go, it is a wonderful feeling of satisfaction that you have tried and done a project to the best of your ability, one cannot expect more than that from oneself. 

I had promised my husband Rein that I would do it and now I have, so I am off the hook. It would have been my 35th wedding anniversary tomorrow so that is a good day to start packing for a new future.

Days of Our Lives

I have returned from Cape Town having found a home which I will rent for myself for the next 6 months, or until I come across the home I wish to live in until age issues take there toll.

The saddest of news is that while away my mother died, she passed in the early hours of Saturday morning the 2nd April ...One of the strongest and most capable woman I have ever known.

Mom was an inspiration in so many ways, she always seemed to have an answer for so many things.
Simple hone truths, she was a wise woman indeed, if I could only be half the mother she was, I reckon I would be doing just fine in the mothering department.

It was wonderful for me that we shared our passion for knitting and baby dolls. Mom appreciated what went into a design and always looked forward to what I would come up with next.

Showing Mom my work was so much part of what I do. Seeing her delight in the tiny garments always gave so much pleasure.

The hardest thing in life is to let go the people we love. Having had one stroke after the other.... had changed Mom in so many ways which are so difficult to explain. It is a blessing that Mom no longer has to live as she has for the last 18 months.

I'm calm but so very sad in my heart, loosing a parent, who one admired and respected as well as loved dearly does not settle easily....

In my minds ear I hear her voice...."Sha a still tongue makes a wise head....and I smile.
I know I will be smiling about a lot of memories in the months and years to come.