Giveaway Winner :)

We've had a birthday in the house. The Little One turned 12 yesterday and had a 
sleepover party last night to celebrate... of course there was very little sleeping ;) 





Anyway, birthday girls still get to do the choosing... and she chose the gravity-
bound-randomness of the throw-everything-in-the-air method...





... I think this bit of paper chose itself actually by being the only one to fall 
into her hands after the throw...





CONGRATULATIONS JO from Luna Landing!! Very happy that these cushions 
will be finding a home with you :)





Thanks everyone for participating and thanks for all your lovely blogiversary wishes :)

Everything in 3s GIVEAWAY

Have I told you about our new friend? He just arrived one day and has stayed.
Funnily enough, this happens a bit here... cats just adopt us, don't know why ;)
Anyway, it's been three months since this gorgeous boy arrived and we're very 
fond of him :)





He's also adopted one of my cushions (don't worry I've pulled it from the shop!) 
I'd kind of already decided I was going to keep this one for myself as it was the
first one I made and special to me for that...





Anyway.... I also seem to be making a habit of missing anniversaries... 
April 10th marked my third year of blogging and of 3 Sheets. 
So, better late than never I'm going to have a giveaway. 


These two matching crochet triangle cushions will be the prize. It's open to both 
local and international peeps, but I would like you to be either a follower of the 
3 Sheets blog or the 3 Sheets facebook page.





What do you think? Would you like these cushions? Tell your friends!
Winner randomly selected on Sunday 6th May :)

Spell it out...

F...I...N...I...S...H...E...D !!!





Chevron cushions are done, that means the whole order is done...





I'm delivering them today...





... and then I won't know what to do with myself ;)






Hope you have a great day too :)

Creative Space: Finished Crazy Chevron

You might remember this crochet design... It wasn't chosen for the shop order 
but it was still liked by some. In fact, someone liked it so much they're getting 
it for their birthday :)





I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but the shop order is almost finished! 
I have finished crocheting the front panels, have washed and blocked them 
and waiting for them to dry. I've also pre-shrunk the linen and waiting for that 
to dry too.





Anyway, it was a good project to do while waiting for all this drying ;)
Hope you've had a creative week? Find more spaces here.

The chosen one

Remember the quandary about the chevron designs?
Well, the client has made her choice... and the favourite won :)












So, I have another 3 to do and the design takes about a week each to complete. 
I just have to get back into mad-crochet mode again now!


I had a lovely weekend off. Hope you had a good one too :)

Our Creative Spaces: Finished Ripple Cushions

Apologies to everyone and anyone... I haven't been answering the phone, 
not looking at blogs (let alone commenting), forgetting promises, letting 
people down, working into the night... I cannot believe how long it has taken 
me to finish these cushions!






But finished they are!! So happy :)






Hope you've had a great week. You'll probably be seeing more of me now ;)
See more Creative Spaces here.

So in love :)

Look at what arrived in the post today! 





I love it so much and wasted no time putting an insert into this delectable 
creation and getting out my camera. Isn't it gorgeous?





It's the work of Mrs Eliot Books, otherwise known as Francesca. You can 
find her envelop store here and her fabulous blog here, where she designs 
other wonderful things like this...





Thanks Fran - I love it :)

Moment of reckoning...

So, the moment has come... I've finished the 'new-improved' chevron 
but now I really can't choose between them.


You remember the first one? I thought it looked like a football jersey 
and decided to try again...



Well, this is the 'try again' chevron... I think I prefer it, but it's not really 
up to me I guess. I'll let the buyer decide which design she likes. 
Which do you prefer?





It's been a tumultuous week full of teenage angst and drama in this 
household. I'm ready to slump in a heap ;) 
The Little One has her indoor hockey grand final tomorrow... I'm hoping 
to rally by then ;)


Hope you're having a lovely weekend!

Cost Price Sale!

I'm having a cost price sale on my cushions... Have a peek at my Etsy Shop.

Crazy Chevron in progress

The ripple cushions are all crocheted - yah! Now I just have four more cushions 
to crochet in a different pattern... this one I call Crazy Chevron.





Based on my original triangle patterns, this one combines different sized 
triangles to form a large chevron pattern. The cushions will be 50x50cms to
give you an idea of its size and scale.





The yarn is an Australian made first cross merino from Biggan Design in 
Lime and Dark Turquoise.





Thanks so much for your wonderful encouragement on my last post. 
Have a lovely week!

Onto the green

I'm going to be busy busy busy doing green ripples this week.





I'm running behind schedule. This is only no.13 of 20 cushions... Was it a full 
week ago I was on no.11? 





The first week of school has been very distracting. Yes, I'm starting to panic.





The pattern is Lucy's and the yarn is Jo's.





Hope it's a good week for you :)

Been busy + getting distracted...

I've been a bad blogger lately, but I have been busy. 
There's been a lot of crocheting going on hereabouts... I'm currently working on 
the 11th out of the 20 cushions ordered. I still have a baby blanket to do as well, 
so not quite halfway yet. 


It's been quite a lesson in staying focussed for someone like me who seems to flit 
around from one idea to the next ;)

















I haven't quite managed to stay focussed though... I've been crocheting some 
more covert bunting... My cousin had a baby girl the other day, so I dropped 
everything to get together a little something for her. (Thank goodness I have 
so many triangles I've already crocheted in my stash).


I tried something slightly different from last time. What do you think of the white 
border?... or does it look better plain?





As per usual, though, when I must be doing something all I can think about is 
something else ;) I've been dreaming about getting back to printing some fabric.
Hope you've been doing fun things?

Big News

I'm still reeling here from the amazing events of today... I have my first stockist!
They have placed an order for 20 cushions... and it's all come out of last Thursday's post! 



I think the word for how I'm feeling is  bemused ;)


The best part is that they insist on paying me what they are worth (wow!)... no more
simply covering costs with a little extra on the top... it's strange even contemplating it ;)



What to do with my pricing on Etsy though? Do I leave that at subsistence levels, 
ie. just covering costs? It's a difficult question. Maybe if I don't have the same 
products crossing over in both arenas I can get away with keeping things as they 
are on Etsy? So, from now on Etsy prices will be like mates-rates for fellow Etsians :)



As you've no doubt noticed by now, the red ripple is finished and made up into a 
cushion with natural linen and red buttons on the back. My other good news from 
today is that someone has already asked to buy it  :)



I don't know why I feel so guilty to be feeling so happy...  How ridiculous am I?
Hope you are having a wonderful day and week too.

Our Creative Spaces - Red Ripple

I've been wanting to do a ripple for a while. Actually, what I really want to crochet 
is a proper pointy chevron but have been unable to find a pattern. Anyway, I thought 
I'd start with a ripple for the time being.





I've used Lucy's pattern at Attic 24. Her explanations + photos are always so easy 
to follow. I haven't had to pull it apart and start again, not once.





There's something so fresh and happy about ripply stripes. 





I've started on a chartreuse stripe already and plan to do a yellow one next.
Figuring on getting together a mass of rainbow stripey cushions. (Can you tell 
I've been watching The Dukes of Hazzard? The late 1970s version was on TV just before while 
I was crocheting... I always end up speaking like that after watching it! :))





Anyway, for all my plans I haven't finished the red ripple yet. This one's still 
a front panel only but I've draped it over a cushion to see how it will look. 





If you know of a pointy chevron pattern for crochet I'd love to see it.
Hope you've had a lovely week. See more spaces here.