Geographica-Lee

These are the maps I have created for my Honours thesis. I think they are great! They turned out just how I wanted them to. I am going to get people to draw on them how the river is significant to them. I am so excited!

First-Lee 2

I crocheted this vest awhile ago. It was the first thing I crocheted. It got me hooked! (haha!)

My mum crocheted a poncho with a similar stitch to this and one day when I was visiting my grandparents I asked my grandma to teach me to crochet. She is an amazing crochet-er and has made me things before. So she taught me using this ugly brown acrylic yarn and when I got home I took the left over black cotton from mum's poncho and made this vest. 

It was just 3 panels sewn together. One wide one for the back and two thinner ones for the front. If you look carefully at the pictures you can see I did a border at the bottom. It was actually by accident, but I really like it there. 

Warm-Lee

These are some hand warmers I crocheted about a year ago. They are very handy (pardon the pun!) for keeping my hands warm but still letting me do things.

I made them from a brown acrylic I bought from Lincraft and adapted them from a pattern I found. I think I used a triple crochet stitch (depending on where you are from), but as it was my first time crocheting I didn't take much notice of the stitch. 

They are super easy to make, just crochet two rectangles and then join the ends to make a tube, leaving a gap for your thumbs. 

When I made the thumb holes, I did it before I joined the ends by stopping my original stitch and doing a chain for a bit before joining again and doing my original stitch. I then finished with a few more rows of my original stitch before joining it.