Another Shawlette

Evening Peeps. Another glorious day although a little more comfortable with the gentle breeze.

Here's another shawlette I've made, this time knitted in a fab 'eyelash' type wool. Beads just didn't work for this one as they were overshadowed by the yarn, so instead I made a tassle out of a similar wool that has a silver thread running through it.

The only problem now is I'll have to wait until the weather cools down before I can wear it.

Hope you like it and see you again soon, x

Cards to Share

Hello from a very warm and sunny West Yorkshire. It was quite dull this morning but its just got warmer and warmer as the day's progressed.

This first card I made for a crafting friend who had a birthday yesterday. I fell in love with this stamp where I saw it and was able to co-ordinate it with some Craft Individuals DP and flowers.

The next 3 piccies show different aspects of a recent bookmark card which I made with instructions from the very talented Diane Whitehouse. It was for a teenage girl who loved it.

Close-up of the bookmark.

Hope you like my brief return into card-making which may be on hold again for a while due to home circumstances.

Enjoy the sun if you have it. Hopefully it will last, x

Knitting and Crochet Update

Well I don't know. You don't hear from me for weeks and then you get 3 postings in an evening. Thought I would catch up with blogging while I was on a roll.

Here are a couple of piccies of a really pretty summer cardi I made for my grand-daughter. I was so chuffed with it.

 Even the intricate lace edging which took me a while to fathom out.

Then what happens......it barely fits her. Back to the drawing board. #2 on the needles now.

If anybody has read the plight of the little 'fish n chip' babies you will know about the little outfits knitters all over the country are making for them. Here is my first contribution. Plenty more wool lined up for future outfits.

Here is my first completed crocheted article. A 'shawlette', pattern courtesy of JoZart. I wore it today and apart from certain embellishments falling into delicate parts of my anatomy the overall feedback was postive.

A close up of the offending embellishments which are in fact buttons.

  Making use of some beautiful beads I got as a birthday pressie.

And, finally here is my finished blanket which was my first practice piece of crocheting.  I say finished, it may well grow some more rounds at a later stage.

Well that's me done for now. Hope you've enjoyed my piccies and see you soon, x

Can you RESIST a peek...

Yep! You guessed it, I've been having a bit of a resist moment of late and these are some of my latest creations. Still finding it difficult to get my mojo working but at least I've made some cards.

Hope you like them, x

Birthday Eye Candy

It's now almost 2 weeks since my birthday and I have at long last taken down my fabulous display of cards. I have met some wonderful people since I starting crafting initially through Katy's Corner UK and many have become very good friends probably for life. As you can see I received a beautiful array of artwork and all so different.

Enjoy!

I'll be back shortly with a crochet update, x

Life, New GrandDaughter, Photos and Stuff

Why is it when you think you're getting back on top of things life throws more stuff at you to deal with. Anyway this first picture is of our newest Grand-Daughter, Faye Marianne, born on 16th March. She was almost 3 weeks old here, pictured with her big cousin, Casey. At the last minute we had Casey join us for a week caravanning in the Lakes and we took a day trip to Scotland to see all our other Grandees. Casey was enthralled with Faye and didn't want to put her down.

 Here is Faye's big brother Dan, although not so big at only 21 months. Casey was fascinated with his ginger curly hair and kept touching it , lol

Here she is again this time with cousin Rose who is my other step-daughter's eldest. They had an absolute ball playing dressing up and hide and seek etc. Granddad got into the spirit of things and chased them with a toy spider.

And here is her little brother Max who is the spitting image of her. He kept trying to join in and was getting knocked over but just jumped back up grinning.

Finally, here is a picture of Casey at my Mum's nursing home with the newly hatched Easter chicks. For the last few years the home has had incubators of eggs leading up to Easter for the residents to watch the chicks appear. I think its a lovely idea and the residents love it. Clearly so do the visitors.

Apart from family taking up a lot of time at the moment we have our house up for sale. Anyone want to buy it??? We've put a deposit on a plot in Cheshire so we're coming back over to that side of the Pennines. 

Sadly we also lost our old cat last month. He had been poorly for a while but still sad.

We've just celebrated our 20th Wedding Anniversary which is 'China' and to mark that we are holidaying in China later in the year. Of course it helps that Hubby is retiring next month so no work ties for him.

As for crafting, I actually made some cards last week at a local workshop I go to but other than that its been knitting, more knitting and practising my crocheting.

Off to Budapest on Friday for a long weekend to have an early celebration of my birthday. Its a biggy this year so I'm making the most of it.

So for now I'll say toodle loo and hope to be back soon.

xxx

I've got the lead role in a new action film...sort of

 OK, before I tell you the exciting news here is a piccie of my latest project. A lady's lingerie case. The older ladies amongst us will remember Mum or Granny having one of these to stash their undies in when they went travelling. Anyway, I made one for a friend for Christmas and then got this fab material to make some more.

It has 2 internal pockets, so plenty of room and the ribbons provide the fastening.

 And here are some slippers for little girls knitted with a double strand of DK wool. Cute or what. You should see the little ones I've made for newborns. And then there's the ones I've made for us bigger people.

An update for another day is my new found skill of crocheting thanks to the excellent teaching of Jo from JoZarty blog. Although it now means I've found the Black Sheep Wool place.....

So the exciting news.....the new action film.....

Well, I jest....but it got you reading. I've decided given what's going on in my life at the moment that I will write an action film with Angelina Jolie playing the lead (that's me) as she does her own stunts just like me!!!

However, I don't think she makes such a pigs ear of them as me. Pray tell, I hear you ask. Well yesterday, there I was minding my own business, crossing the road when down I go rather spectacularly and after travelling a few feet, well maybe a few inches, along the road I landed on my face. So glasses broken, face bashed, knees cut and bleeding, hands cut and bleeding and shoulder now a nice shade of black I think I have earned the lead role.

On top of that today I have been for a blood test and 2 holiday vaccinations so I now have 2 very sore arms.

Off to cast the rest of the film. Have a good weekend, x