Get motivated Tracey!

Hello exhibitioners, with a little prodding the moment has come where I have become intrinsically motivated to crochet again. Perhaps it was Bec posting her sweet cuppie cake. Perhaps it was this cool spell after the heat of the last 2 weeks. or... it may just be quite simply for fear that if I don't crochet now it will suddenly be March and I will not have a thing to show for it!

My plan for the fringe involves crocheting cans of food. Some ideas are

• canned baby carrots
• canned peas
• canned SPAM (eeeeew!)
• canned corn
• canned pineapple rings
• tinned sardines

Why cans of food? I don't quite know, it just came to me. I Googled it and found a couple of inspiring crochet cans of food but not many. I like that it's not a commonly crocheted thing :)

So here are some photos of the first can - Canned Peas. I will embroider the label onto felt or straight onto the can - not too sure which will work/look better :S

More to come soon (I hope!). I hope to be putting some snaps up in the next few weeks on my blog thrift.nest.sew, do pop by to see how my motivation and eagerness is going x

in which I say hello

Hi all, I haven't met most of you so I thought I'd better make an introduction!

My name is Bec and I'm a 5th year law/behavioural science student at Flinders Uni and I dislike it immensely. I've done a bit of politics this year and found it much more interesting than law, which is saying something...

Most of the time I try to be more interesting by making things! This year under the name MadeByBecca I started selling (and making) polymer clay jewellery and knits (at www.madeit.com.au/MadeByBecca and Irving Baby!). I love cute things, kitsch things, fancy things, vintage things, bright things and mostly things that do not involve textbooks, legislation or note-taking in any form.

Wool-wise I started out make scarves but now also make cushions, fruit and cupcakes.

Hope to meet you all soon!