Whimsical Tea Cosies and Vintage Inspired Calendar: July

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 A couple of weeks ago, I reserved 

this zany book at the library

(essential the reservation.. it's very popular!!)

Ah, I so fell in love with this

so out came my wool & 

my knitting needles

& some more wool was bought,

especially since Spotlight 

had all yarn at 1/2

price for a day or two.

 Then what should I see,

but the

Vicar Calling for Tea 

at Magpie Chic

 Her dear Magpie Chic mum had just made her this : )

however..I find I am still positively crap

at knitting! So in the blink of an eye 

the knitting needles

were sent away in disgrace

and my dear trusty crochet

hooks retrieved for service.

Phew... the book also has 

patterns for crocheted flowers.

Here was a completed rose 

flaunting itself shamelessly

atop a teapot.

Bit of a trick all this wool!

But that looks better!

I (we! Matt gave me a hand) lined this

old suitcase with this lovely old

lavender wallpaper

 so that now the suitcase is upcycled

& the yarn has a new home

Yes! I thought with relief, we can do this after all : )

I made up the body part & lined it with a wee 

piece of lovely old green vintage blanket,

blanket stitched the two together

& attached the roses to the top..

now here's the trick..the instructions were odd

so I made a little blanket platform for the flowers

to sit on & blanket stitched around that edge too

so that eventually I ended up with this!

Vintage button to secure the front

as we don't want to be revealing 

too much cleavage now do we!

I have also been making crocheted

flower brooches but I will have to save

that for another post!

I did however, find this lovely old 

basket at the Sallies recently

It's in very good condition.

Plastic lined but no tears. 

I have a feeling it has quite a bit of age on it.

What do you reckon?