Crochet Placemats - 1 a night - a crochet binge

This week, the last week of holidays, I was taking a bit of time off the blog and the machine after the huge sewing stint to make things for the flood auctions and I went a little crazy every night with the crochet while working our way through season 1 and 2 of The X-Files til the wee hours of the morn. Now that work is starting again, late nights and lounge time are over and it's back to regular scheduled sleep for 6am alarms...eep.
So..this week I Started and finished about 14 squares from The Art of Crochet magazines I've been buying each week. I find the squares mostly boring and repetitive, but sometimes they throw in a cool one here or there just to peak your interest again. I buy it more for the other projects in the book each week, the squares are good practice but I don't think I will ever want to make the squares into the blanket.
One of their projects was a table mat. So I made 4 of them. It was supposed to have a picot edge, but I didn't like it as much as without it, so I took the picot edging off and just left the underlying plain edge.
So here are the finished 4 placemats. They just add a little bit of colour to the table I think.

Green centre, green edging.

Lavender Centre, and edging.

Chocolate Brown centre and edging.

Orange centre and edging.

I just have to dampen them and block them out properly and then they are done.
Last night I started in on some crochet slippers for my sisters 1yr old twins. They have grown SO much lately! I didn't have  a pattern to fit a 1 yr old so I read through a couple of other patterns and adapted them as I crocheted I wrote it out if it worked, or unravelled it and started again if it didn't! I have one finished, if the second one makes it to completion and looks the same, I will post the results;)

SOFTIES Auction and a doll for Hope Softies for kids - QLD Flood

I've been making a doll to send to the lovely Steph at mon petit poppet who organised a softie drive to help ease the suffering of the little ones who's lives have been turned upside down by the QLD floods. With so many families having had their houses and all their stuff destroyed and living in shelters or other temporary accommodations, kids are really going to be doing it tough. I can't imagine dealing with any of this at their age, most of us adults can't believe the devastation we watched on tv.



This is the doll I made.

I have not named her,

She can whisper her real name to her new friend when they meet together in QLD.

She's very good at listening, cuddling and whispering. She likes twirling.
She's all wrapped up ready to be on her way to the lovely Steph at mon petit poppet.

Quick Reminder today is the FINAL DAY for the auctions to raise money for the QLD flood appeal.

These are the 5 Softies of mine being auctioned off, Have a look and bid please! All the money goes directly to the QLD flood appeal and they really do need every cent to help lots of people cope with and clean up from a disaster of this magnitude.

Seth the Robot Softie.

Falafel the Cat Softie.

Dave the Giraffe Softie. 

Arcan the Owl Softie.

Bunky the Bird Softie.

My Creative Space

My Creative Space is all about Raising money for the QLD flood by making softies.

These 5 Softies are being auctioning off, Have a look and bid please! All the money goes directly to the QLD flood appeal!!

Seth the Robot Softie.

Falafel the Cat Softie.

Dave the Giraffe Softie. 

Arcan the Owl Softie.

Bunky the Bird Softie.