This mitten (singular) was made to match the olive green scarf I posted last week. The pattern was sent to me by my Grandma and I ended up using the pattern for the mittens that the woman in the middle is wearing, except I excluded the cabling because I have only just got the hang of that. I used the same wool again - olive green 100% acrylic yarn from the charity shop I work at. It's one of their new good products, not a donation so I don't need to be too concerned about running out of wool mid-project.

This is the bib necklace that I posted sneak peak photographs of last week. I recycled my old school skirt into the main body of the necklace, the beads were bought from a market, the ribbon was just lying around my house and the gold fastenings were bought in a bead shop in Birmingham. I wish I'd placed the beads a little higher up on the fabric or just sewed closer to the beads since there is such a big gap. The ribbon is also falling out of the ribbon crimps so I need to find a way to make that more secure...

I recently ordered some fabric online and it arrived yesterday. The red floral and the navy polka dot are both cotton. I also ordered some fabric for coursework so thank goodness its arrived already so I can have time to make it before I go back to school. That's what the grey and beige chiffon are for. Not particularly exciting colours but it works with my project so fingers crossed I get a good grade. The last fabric I ordered was PVC. It is actually transparent and not silvery as the photographs show. I'm planning to experiment with making cosmetic bags or clear pencil cases with a floral trim. I'm not sure about other countries, but in England, we can only take transparent pencil cases into exams, so if I have a pretty pencil case, I will feel happier. Well, as happy as you can be in an exam. And finally I bought a few zips for making pencil cases and elastic for simple pyjama shorts or skirts.

This scarf was my first attempt at knitting. It took me about a month from start to finish and it's made out of 100% acrylic yarn in an olive green colour that I bought in the charity shop I volunteer in, for £1.49 a ball. I used stocking stitch and reverse stocking stitch to get the striped effect. It's about 1.20m in length. I started making a pair of mittens to match but have only got round to making 1 so far. It almost seems not worth it since it's not cold enough to need gloves.

Just a few photographs of an upcoming project. It's just a quick one since I really should be concentrating on coursework but I've been hit badly by the procrastination bug. I was supposed to be working solidly this half-term break but I've gone into holiday mode and can't be bothered to do anything school-related. Not good since the deadline for my coursework is the first day back on Monday. Eek!

These photographs are only snippets of what I've recently been getting up to because if you can't tell from the photos, I've been experimenting with making simple underwear and I don't feel comfortable showing any more than this. 

I used an old t-shirt, stretch lace, elastic and 2 buttons. To get the pattern, I chose an old pair that fits me comfortably and just traced around it. I specifically chose a pair that used stretch lace around the leg holes because I already had a few metres of this lying around and didn't fancy buying anything new for this quick project. All in all, I probably spent about an hour on this, which included making the pattern so I think I'll be making more of these in the future.

If you want to try this yourself, I recommend that when your tracing your pattern, that you stretch your underwear as much as possible since my first attempt went wrong and were a wee bit too small.

This post is just to show more photographs of my Pre-Raphaelite inspired dress. I'm sorry for the image overload. They're not even good quality photographs since didn't use a nice camera and the dress wouldn't fit over my dress form due a short zip (my fault) so I have no photographs of what it looks like on. Perhaps when I get it back, I'll be able to post better photographs.

Some of the things I didn't mention in my other post were that I lined the bodice with a Liberty of London cotton lawn which happens to be designed by Pre-Raphaelite member, William Morris. I also had to add extra support to the shoulder strap to hold all the draping down or it would do its own thing. The skirt is made up of a base skirt which is just a simple A-Line skirt with a few darts in the back. I then draped chiffon over the sides to create a petal/ tulip look. My photographs make this look confusing so new photographs really would help. Oh well... I'm just glad to have handed this project in already.

Phone Sock

This little thing was knitted out of pure boredom and the fact that my other phone sock was looking a little grubby. This one was knitted from some of the wool I found in the attic. It was supposed to be a Phone Sock, but I'm thinking it's more of a Phone Jumper. I just made up the pattern as I went along. I'm only a beginner knitted which shows that anyone can make this for their own phone or iPod or whatever you need it for. I apologise for the awful quality of the photographs. Thats what you get for using your iPod touch to take the photographs in bad lighting. 

cream lace collar hand

The cream lace collar was bought from the Rag Market just outside of the Bullring in Birmingham and the 16" gold chain necklace came from My Vintage Charms. I painstakingly hand sewed the two together with a beading needle since it was the only thing that would fit through the links. It couldn't be simpler to make so I recommend this as a beginners project.

Handmade chunky scarf (taken with instagram) I'm quite liking the effect that this app creates.

I bought the wool at the charity shop I volunteer at. It's true colour is this lovely slate grey but unfortunately it's 100% acrylic. I ended up using almost 4 skeins. It would have gone a lot further if I hadn't decided to use a knit 2 purl 2 rib stitch because you can't even tell it's ribbed and it just make the scarf twice as thick. Not quite what I was going for, but I've still been wearing it. It was my first time experimenting with adding tassels too and I would call it a success.