Another crazy Freeform Crochet Coat!!

It's been ages since I last wrote a blog post! One of many good reasons is that my now 2 year old little Gwenda has killed my laptop!! :-) I just found an app for my mobile phone & so it might be possible I can actually get this post done while breastfeeding my 8 week old!! No excuses anymore!! I guess I finished this coat in October, obviously I was still highly pregnant!!

The special thing about this coat is that it contains uncountable projects I started & never finished over the last 10 years or so! :-) I really got fed up with all these WIPs (WIP means 'Works in progress' for those of you who don't understand crochet language) & so I decided to turn them into something wearable. You can never have enough coats & so that's what I added to my neon wardrobe!!

For those of you who are wondering how I get the yarny puzzle pieces in the right shape: I took an old jacket and used hundreds of safety pins to attach all the crochet pieces onto it. Then I simply crocheted the pieces together!!

As you can see there are still some yarn ends to hide but nothing is as boring as perfection so I guess it will just stay this way!! Hard to recognize the ends anyway in all this neon chaos!!

I might just make a little coat for this little miss as well, I've given up on crocheting things for little baby Gwenda as I could just watch her growing out of her crochet clothes. Now that she is a proper toddler she fits in her clothes a bit longer, finally!!

Another photo of the coat, just to show you it's dimensions and all these projects I never managed to finish!! So satisfying I actually 'completed' them!! :-)

And a last picture with my 8 week old little Zelda!! I'm so thankful that she is such a talented sleeper (Mami gets all in all 10 hours of sleep a night!!) & she enjoys sitting on me whilst I can crochet! Nothing better!!

Much love to all my princesses & princes,

DaDa, GwenDa & ZelDa

My Freeform Crochet Coat!

I haven't posted anything for quite a while

as I've been pretty busy.

Online breaks are important to me

in times when so many things are

happening in the "real life".

The reason why you can see me

presenting my new coat on the beach

is that I've moved to Scotland

a couple of weeks ago!

Edinburgh is just such a beautiful

& open-minded place to live

& I already met many new crafty friends!

With this coat I got rid of loads of unfinished projects

& scrumbles I've made over the last years

- I still have more than 400 left which is pretty good

because I'm also working on a even bigger

secret project! ;-)

It never gets  boring as long as you are a crocheter!

I could only take one of my Nanas

with me to the ocean

but of course ALL of them have moved

to Scotland as well!

I always find new doggie friends here

in Edinburgh to play with

but I'm also pretty sad

that my best doggie friend has recently

left us - Samson.

He has been the best nephew for me

you can imagine & it's just heart-breaking

that he had to leave his loving

grandma Barbara.

My future dog has to be a rottweiler,

hopefully it will be such a great cuddler

as Sam was.

❤❤❤

Farewell Samson,

this world is missing you badly.

❤❤❤

Some more coat pics...

...and here you can see Alex

wearing my coat!

Looks pretty awesome on him!

While I was puzzling together this coat

Alex was so lovely to make some

scrumbles for this coat as well!

Here you can see 2 puzzle pieces he made

for my freeform coat!

Sooo, one last pic...

I will try to post more often again

& I wish you a wonderful day with

many beautiful stitches!

Your friend Dada

❤❤❤