finally.......

I can post about my knitting project I did with my mum at Christmas time.  As we knitted the owl gloves, pictured below, for my Aunt in America for her christmas I was unable to post this until she recieved them.  Well, now she has so here are the pictures I took of them.  As you will see the Magazine mollie makes is featured in one of the photos, this is because the pattern came out of this magazine.  The other is one of the gloves on my hand.  These gloves are my first knitting project so Im rather proud of them, well technically only one of them as my mum knitted the other.  It was a completely joint effort.  Im even more proud that my aunt loves them.  If you are reading this Aunty, hello there and thank you for reading my blog.  So without further delay here are the photos :)

I'm animal crackers lol

Here is the panda hat I managed to make for a work colleagues 10 year old son.  The feedback I got was that the lad loved his hat and has not taken it off since :) phew Im sooooo glad. Oh well back to my essay writing lol

Bags, a girls best friend apparently :)

Well, its been a few weeks since I last posted.  In fact this post was intended to be posted a good number of weeks ago, however I was unable to upload photos on blogger so it had to wait until I could so here it is, albeit much later than I planned.  Christmas and New Year was great but busy.  Very soon I will be back at uni and busy again so probably won't get to do much craft but in the mean time here are a couple of bags I have managed to crochet.  The silver one is a clutch, and the second black bag is the clutch (smaller) with an added strap as it was requested by a colleague when she saw my silver clutch bag and liked it :) I do hope I have enough time to get the panda hat commissioned me to do.  The third pic is not a bag at all but it is a throw I have started and wanted to share it now as I doubt I will get it finished any time soon due to having too many other things to get done.  The pattern for the clutch I found in issue 22 of Mollie Makes.  Mollie makes is such a great magazine and I plan to do alot more projects out of it, so watch this space, though I warn you it might be a few months before I can get going properly.  The throw is a never ending granny square and got the idea here for those who might like to try it for themselves.  So without further ado, here are my three pictures

owl theme

Hello again folks, Ive not posted for a little while due to having to get my essay finished for my post grad cert.  Well its finished at last and Ive been busy trying to make my presents.  Here are a couple Ive been working on.  There is an owl theme going on here.  A crochet owl hat and an owl bag.  Both are my own design.  I hope you like them.  Im well chuffed with how they have turned out. 

An unexpected perk from an accident........

hi guys

Well,  Ive managed to fall at work and damage my knee :( so Im off for the rest of the week.  Anyway to make the most of my time off work I have been studying and thought I'd make a couple of christmas presents today to break the monotony of studying. 

Ive made a couple of bags both fully lined.  The brown cord was much easier to work with than the natural coloured fleece.  Ive not quite finished them but as always Im eager to share them with my crafting buddies lol It was the first time I have made this bag and it was a bit tricky at times trying to make sure I had everything pinned in the right bit.  Of course I managed to put the front strap on the wrong bit and had to unpick and put in the right bit.  After a bit of huffing and tutting, I finally got there in the end and I think they have turned out not too bad at all even if I do say so myself (phew) I hope the teenager its intended for likes it.  I have yet to sew on a small wooden buckle for the short front strap to go through to shut the bag and Ive a bit of the lining I have to finish sewing (the bit I had to leave to allow me to turn the bag the right way out) All in all Im proud of my efforts.

I think I will give the brown cord to the teenager and leave the other for another of my friends, though not decided who yet.

So here they are and as always please feel free to comment :)

My new direction

Hi folks, I have been thinking alot about my skills and passions of late.  I have expanded my experience of craft to sewing recently and thoroughly enjoyed it.  This came about as Ive been thinking about my life, what experiences I have had and what Id like to have.  Sewing was something I thought Id try to expand my craft skills.  But I have other skills that I have not really given a chance to develop.  I attended my first creative writing group this evening and I have had a really good night.  I was inspired to write something in 10 minutes, which when I first discovered Id have to write something this evening I really truely did not expect to know what to write.  However, something someone in the group mentioned gave me inspiration.  It was pretty cool to say the least.  My little bit of writing I did was not great but the ideas were there to expand and grow.  So who knows maybe one or two of my posts might be some creative writing.  Of course journaling is a form of creative writing so I have done it within my crafting but Im planning to expand and grow.  Moving up to the highlands has definately been the right move for me.  Its amazing what I have actually done for my wellbeing.  First I started my running by doing the couch to 5k I then began to go mountain biking.  I even went to Holland for a weeks cycling holiday.  That was an amazing holiday.  So here I am posting for the sake of posting.  No photos this time just some of my thoughts and feelings.  Thank you for reading and I hope you get something from this post. 

T x

Finished Christmas Planner

Well, I spent this evening finishing off my christmas planner and I thought Id share a couple of the photos with you.  Im not sure Ive got enough in it but time will tell.  I put in a pocket page so if I have not put in enough pages I have somewhere I can put in extra if required.  I also put in a couple of envelopes so there is storage for receipts and the likes.  Not sure how practical it is but I guess only time will tell.  The first scheduled in event in my planner is the craft fair   Christmas craft shopping here I come on 26th October :)