Made Marian: Oozing Crafty Goodness

We’ve decided to give hampers as gifts to some lucky people this year.  I’m in the process of making them up at the moment and will post pictures as soon as they are ready. But if you are like me then you like to get a head start on these things, so I said I’d post a list of my chosen suppliers for the hamper goodies.

The hampers will contain things from the following list:

• Wine from Olio and Farina
• Wine from The Wine Buff
• Spice Mix from Spicendipity
• Olives from Olio and Farina
• Stuffed Peppers from Olio and Farina
• Ginger Girl’s Cranberry Chutney
• Ginger Girl’s Seville Marmalade
• Chocolates by Lorge
• Red Onion Relish by Bellish Ltd (087 9477669 - available in the Milk Market in Limerick on Saturday)
• Seaweed cheese by Maja of Dingle Peninsula Cheese (available from the WIld Side in the Milk Market)
• Crackers of some sort for the cheese/relish

I’ve bought some baskets in Dunnes and some nice festive Ribbon to decorate them, photos as I said above to follow.  Margaret has been giving hampers for years and they are always well received, she does one better than me though, she makes a lot of what she puts into the hampers.  I am way too busy making yarn related products to make food as well but if you’re so inclined it is a great gift to give.

I’ve posted about flower pins before and many of my readers have some of those.  But this one here is a little bit fancier than those as it has two layers of petals.   The pattern is again from Debbie Stoller’s Happy Hooker, this time from the pattern Spring in Winter.  I made this one to wear with a pink bolero and a black dress.

I’m thinking of making these ones to order so if anyone would like one, or if anyone would like to give them as a gift to someone get in contact through the link at the side.   I’d be looking at charging about €8 - €10 each for them as I’d be using good quality yarn and they take about an hour to make