Tips & Tricks: Organised bed linen

Do you have a linen closet at your house?

Well boo, so jealous.

My house doesn’t have one, so for the past four years we have kept our linen on the top shelf of one of the spare bedrooms. The only problem with the top shelf is that sometimes when you pull one thing out, other things fall down. Or when one of the pillow cases becomes separated from everything else, you end up taking out the entire wardrobe more items just to find the item you’re originally looking for. And before you know it, all your linen is on the floor looking like this:

So when I came across this simple way of organising bed linen on Pinterest, I just knew this was the solution I was looking for. (N.B and in the interest of not being sued the original source comes from Martha Stewart).

It’s such a simple, practical idea it’s funny that not everyone does this (or do you?) First, get all items of a sheet/quilt set together and fold them (you probably do this already). Get one of the pillowcases and put the entire set inside the pillowcase. Now all items belonging to this sheet/quilt set, are all together. Easy.

So my mess linen went from this:

to this:

Thanks Martha!

xoxo Bronwyn

Pattern Review: Bubba Booties

Recently when someone asked me,

“Have you made anything for the baby yet?”

They were shocked, horrified, appalled, puzzled by my “No” response.

It’s not surprising, I do enjoy making handmade things, and at every single baby shower I’ve ever been to, I have included something handmade. I have wanted to make something for the baby, in fact I’ve been dying to make something, but I’ve just been:

a) distracted by all the other bills purchases for the baby

b) getting bored with gender neutral colours (white, beige, brown)

c) too excited on what to make first

d) all of the above

So since it’s a long weekend, I decided to make some booties from my good ol’ Patons Quick & Easy Baby Knits #6000

And here is the end result:

This was my first time making booties, and I love them! I especially loved making the twisted cord for the ties, they look difficult, but were so simple, I really like how the grey and aqua mesh well together. The booties are imperfect, and mr. gasket says one bootie looks bigger than the other, but even if they are flawed, I still think they are precious.

The grey wool is the Spotlight brand 8 ply pure wool, and the aqua wool is some scrap 8 ply wool I had lying around (possibly Patons?)

I’m so amazed at my awesomeness that I have signed up to ravelry, an online social network of knitters, crocheters, weavers, and spinners who share their projects, review patterns and give wool help to the needy (yes please!). If you’re already on ravelry, come and be my friend, I’m gasketsforgirlies.

Anyway, here is another picture of the booties.

(This picture does make one look bigger than the other)

xoxo Bronwyn

P.S. on a silly side note, my theme song while knitting this project was Flo Rida “Turn Around (5 4 3 2 1)”. Leave me a comment if you can guess why!

Holiday Snapshot: Babymoon in Hawaii

Aloha!

Sorry for the absence, but I’ve just returned from a two week babymoon in Hawaii.

What is a babymoon you ask?



Well, depending on who you ask or where you come from, a babymoon can be one of three things:

1) A holiday that you and your partner take together in the hopes of creating a baby

2) The first holiday you and your partner take together as a family, after the birth of your new baby

3) The last holiday (but not your last EVER holiday) that you and your partner take before the birth of your baby

As you can probably guess, my babymoon was number three:

3) The last holiday (but not your last EVER holiday) that you and your partner take before the birth of your baby

As mr. gasket and I went to Hawaii for our honeymoon, it seemed appropriate to go back there for our babymoon. The weather was perfect - not too hot, not too humid, and not too rainy – ideal for this girly.

So here are a couple of my Hipstamatic app pictures for your enjoyment!

Mahalo!

xoxo Bronwyn

P.S check out these beautiful Moda charm squares I ordered with free delivery on eBay. I’m going to use them for something on my Mrs Bucket List, can you guess what?