Full On February

Life has been rather hectic here since the end of January.  Mr TMC has had a lot of upheaval at work meaning we've hardly seen him for the past 3 weeks.  Of course when he was away life sent a few little annoyances like the car breaking down and the baby monitor breaking too!  Oh and sick children, mustn't forget the sick children.  There are so many illnesses going around at school right now and they're finding their way to our house...

Anyway I've certainly kept myself busy during this time and in no particular order (because I still haven't figured out how to put my pictures in a particular order) this is what I've been doing...

First up is a dolls/teddy blanket, complete with a little 2 year old arm creeping into the shot for scale.

While Mr TMC was away I decided to surprise him by building the flat pack chest of drawers which had been sitting around in its box for a while.  I knew he wouldn't have time to build them.  I felt faint when I saw the sheer number of parts and the very tiny picture only construction leaflet!  The build needless to say wasn't without its problems...

Here is the 2nd dolls/teddy blanket I made.  It's just slightly smaller than the first.  I made one each for my girls who have an abundance of baby dolls and teddies.

This was my attempt at working out where to put the squares.  I thought if I took a picture it would help with the placement once I started hooking them together.

I hooked up this little chick last night.  My eldest daughter came out of school with her normal 11th hour request of making something to take into school tomorrow.  The pattern is by Heather Casavant at snoodlestudio.etsy.com.

I've also been experimenting with mug hugs and mug rugs.  This one I made for my own mug although it is a bit high as my lips touch the wool!

I made another 4 squares for the charity blanket for Crafts Beautiful/Lets Knit.  The response from the forum members has been fantastic with loads of squares already made and sent off to be hooked together :-)

This set of mug hug and mug rug (complete with spotty mug) went to my eldest daughter's teacher who was leaving due to the usual teacher returning from maternity leave.  She was such a lovely teacher and I was sorry to see her go.

Yet another mug hug, this time for Mr TMC for Valentine's Day for his very tall mug. 

And I finally finished the shamrocks and thistles for my friend's wedding.  This is a small selection of those made as there were 32 of each.

And finally a very tiny blanket.  I was inspired by the mini granny squares on Attic24's blog but my sewing together skills were, well quite frankly awful!  I managed to put 12 together before I decided to call it a day and made it into a very tiny blanket, probably suitable for Barbie.

Hopefully I won't leave it so long before I next update my blog and hopefully I will find my misplaced camera too as I had to take a lot of these pictures on my iPad.  I have quite a few WIP's I need to finish and projects I either want to continue with or start.  Oh and of course 2 extra chicks for my girls :-)