When I dove all the way to the bottom of that unfinished pile of works I caught glimpses of other projects that were well on their way to get lost into oblivion. 

With my crochet hook still firmly attached to my hand from the previous unfinished yet now finished project, I picked up another blanket. This particular one had only been in there for a little over a year... yikes... and was in a further stage of completion even though the blanket was quite a bit larger than the previous one. Four squares and some edging were missing...

Miss Declutter put her focus on sharp and voilà... another finished blanket!

As you can see this one also is already in use. That's what happens when winter keeps throwing tantrums and keeps spring at bay with freezing cold temperatures and snow! Yes, snow! A lot of it. So late in March... and then to think that usually snow in winter is an oddity of itself around here.... Tantrums I tell you. 

Anyhow. The blanket is a large version of this one. I was left with bits of wool and decided to use them all in a full blown blanket... sized to cover a single bed. 

The dense effect that this blanket has by doing all the rows in double crochets, makes it wonderful to combat cold. This one really keeps you warm above all else. Due to the fact that I've used wool and a 4 mm crochet hook, the blanket still remains surprisingly light.

I finished the thing off with a simple picot border just like the small version I made so long ago.

And yes, as a lovely reader already remarked, finishing off those lingering things is just the greatest feeling. I could swear I'm the best housewife of all times right now. Until I realize I'm late making dinner... then that award passes quickly on to someone else all together. 

But for now.... ahhhhhhhhhh.... that feels good. 

I seem to be the favorite person on the internet of brands such as Prada, Burburry, Louis Vuiton, Gucci and Hermes... or at least their fake counterparts.  They keep spamming me to death thinking it will make me buy a handbag.

And so the husband installed an aggressive spam filter. But when it is experiencing a spam wave it sometimes goes into overdrive and also puts some genuine comments in the trash. 

Having deleted several hundreds of these spam things earlier tonight, I came across some lovely comments of dear readers who are in no way trying to make me buy bags I would never buy in the first place. 

So should you leave a comment and not see it published any time soon, feel free to mail me so that I can check up on my spam filter and give your comment the place it deserves. 

In the course of the previous years a couple of Blythe beauties made their entrance in the life of my daughters. After a bit of time I was made aware that they had nowhere to sleep as all the other doll beds were occupied by more sizeable dolls. And sharing was no option due to snoring issues.

It's odd how my girls seem to be so occupied with sleep now.... I wish they'd been like that when they were babies themselves... that would have been very welcome back then.

But sleepless Blythes we had on our hands and so Christmas brought them a pair of doll beds.

Now, sleeping on a steel bed without bedding isn't much fun and in anticipation of the complaints of the owners, I set aside some time to make a double set of bedding. This bedding:

Don't they look peaceful now? Almost of to the land of nod.... hmmmm.

Well, the bedding I made consisted of a densely stuffed matress, a pillow, a sheet made out of the embroidered edges of an actual vintage sheet, a pillow case and a quilt.

The pillow case is in fact a miniature envelope pillow case with some lace trimmings. On the side I did some tiny embroidery. You'd think a small thing like this would take you next to no time to make but don't be fooled. Changing the colors of embroidery floss and tucking away all the little threads is in fact quite time consuming. But it all looks just so right together... in keeping with the feeling of that bruised and battered steel bed. 

The quilt measures about 30 by 30 cm. And at the centre there is a square made of up 111 tiny hexagons. To make these I took a dive in my 'ridiculously small scraps' bag and I went for everything that had a really small pattern on the fabric. Then I just sewed them together randomly. The outer edge of the quilt is done in a small leftover piece of quilting fabric that made it home with me from a trip to Japan around 15 years ago. But I absolutely adore this print. What a shame I only have a couple of inches left by now. 

I decided to tie the centre piece of the quilt in order not to fuss too much with these tiny hexagons and then I just added two quilting lines through the outer edge using the same DMC cotton perle floss in that soft minty green. 

And just to show you what a teeny tiny little work that was, here's my hand (and I have small hands, being a smallish person) compared to this vast quilt....

If I didn't know how long this little thing actually took me, I might have been tempted to make a similar quilt on a larger scale... to.. for example... cover an actual bed. But as much as I like the outcome of this, there's no way that my impatience would be able to cope with the no doubt years and years it would take to make this in a size acceptable for daily use. Bummer.

But what do you think? Could you see yourself sleeping in a bedding set-up such as this? And what you give it a go to make this in a grown up scale?

I haven't exactly been idle in the time I was away from this blog. There is in fact quite a lot that I made and did. Not everything however got captured by my camera before it left my house in the shape of presents. Other things have been put to use straight away and are showing signs of ware and tare. 

Playing catch up isn't my strong suit but I'll give it a go.

This little fellow was given to me for Christmas by my girls and husband in the shape of a pattern and a parcel of supplies. It took me two days to end up with the most friendly of all elephants... Eli:

Isn't he a cutie? 

A heavy, slow, creamy and mellow elephant ... and all dressed up for a little party somewhere.

I feel he always looks as if he's having a small party by himself, a traditional and somewhat melancholic do I imagine. But mostly I feel he could have been picked up from the toy shelf of a little boy or girl in a long lost era. 

I am so happy he is now partying away on our shelf. 

If you would like to have a go on an Eli yourself, then head over to the lovely shop of Jennifer Murphy. She sells the most beautiful patterns (ranging in difficulty) and supplies for Eli and a couple of his animal friends.