black wolf knitting

Monday, April 4, 2011

Saturday, April 2, 2011

The idea for this bed came from Flair's mum, who has apparently made these for Ben the dog. It is a single duvet ($5, op shop) with a pillowslip style cover made from a 50c piece of fabric (op shop) and part of a sheet ($1, op shop). Better than a $100+shop bought dog bed!. You fold the duvet into quarters and stitch it into place, then make a cover like a pillowslip. Sirius is growing so fast he no longer fits into his laundry basket bed. As you can see he has a cosy spot in the laundry next to where the hot air comes out of the freezer. That tartan scrap is his cuddly which was rubbed all over his mum and brothers before he left home! The other picture is what happened when I tried to take a photo of him having a tug of war with a huge bunch of bananas. He has learned how to 'sit', now we are working on 'stay'.

Monday, March 28, 2011

Baby Black Wolf!

So here is Baby Black Wolf, at 19 1/2 weeks old. Looks like a no-armed alien, but we did see the correct number of arms and legs! Did not find out the baby's gender so it will be a surprise.

Lots of love to you all xxxxxxx

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Bananaman!

This is the first bunch of bananas we have harvested. There are about three more bunches ready too. The freezer is filling up with bananas and I have found a banana wine recipe to make with them. It's cheating really to put these on the blog as really I had nothing to do with their growing. I did water them once. But I thought you'd be interested. The second picture is the first smoothie I made using: bananas from the garden and mandarins from the orchard. I guess we really need our own cow and berry patch then they would be properly home grown. (Maybe next year!) Richie's dad just offered us charge of the macadamias for the season, so we need to see if that is a feasible and desirable thing to do. It sounds cool in theory!

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Denver the last dinosaur...

So, I was going through a few pics in the computer in an effort to make space for the pictures from the recent NZ road trip (and the thousands of Sirius the puppy pics) and I came across
these.... which I had basically forgotten I even knitted.
T-Rex was a present for baby Toby - I was embarrassed to give him to Hannah after Rowan's super starfish jumpsuit and Little Blue Penguin. However Hannah received him with enthusiasm anyway. I have realised that toys are not my forte (too much sewing up!) but he does look OK in the picture!

This hat was knitted for Kamilla, after she requested a "Barbie-pink" hat for her 40th birthday. I did start knitting it inside out but soon realised something was wrong....
I have many more things to update and post but they will have to wait for another day.
Lots of love Black Wolfers xxxxxxx