Makes and Creates

Hello world,

I am still alive, just been too busy lately to have any time to be making things so haven’t had anything to post!  I have however been taking lot’s of photo’s though on our various adventures and days out so haven’t been totally non creative.

I’ve started to knit a baby blanket for my friends baby who is due in November, better get working on that or it won’t be finished on time.

Hopefully after next weekend we should have some time to ourselves, time to relax and time to start making things again (we are already planning a trip to Hobbycraft) so keep on checking back and normal (well more normal) service will be resumed as soon as possible

I’ve been a bit quiet on the blogging front lately, mainly because I haven’t made anything new (well I made an arm warmer but will post them once I’ve made the second one!)

I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas & New Year, I definitely did, it was busy but lovely. My main Christmas present from Chris was a sewing machine and a bag of extras to go with it (see pics below.) I did my first bit of “proper” sewing on it today, I made a cushion cover (which will be a pair tomorrow) I got the fabric from Ikea and some other bright patterned fabric that took my fancy which I thought I could make a bag with I’ll keep posting my progress!

After opening all my lovely birthday cards and presents yesterday we went out and bought our very first Christmas tree, and lights etc and then set to work putting it all up.

We thought that the pack of decorations we bought would have hooks/loops on the baubles already but how wrong were we, so I had to sit there and thread cotton through the top of each one to make hanging loops before we could start to decorate the tree!

Anyway we think it looks ace, here it is:

…. to my brand spanking new website All the old blogger posts have been transferred over.

Hope you like it!

I’m back online! Our broadband got connected today so I can start blogging again and try and catch up on everything I’ve missed over the past few weeks.

So I’m now down in Essex, the move went well and we’re almost sorted and kitted out I’ve been knitting quite a lot (will post some pics at the weekend) and I’ve joined the local Stitch N’ Bitch group which is cool, a great way to make some new friends (everyone there is lovely).

Also having the internet back means I can buy supplies and books online again now yay!

So… As you can see (above) I just finished my first knitted item that wasn’t a square or rectangle! Woohoo! (please excuse the model, I didn’t have a real person to hand in the size needed so used the nearest thing :p)
I will probably give the little hat to my my cousin Toby and I’m now making a little scarf to match. Also I’m going to buy the “correct” wool needed and make Chris a hat too (without the turn up bit at the bottom!).

I’m feeling quite proud of my handywork!

So.. I haven’t blogged for AGES, and thats because I haven’t got round to starting (or finishing off) any of the things I said I was going to make! It’s just been too busy lately (plus I’m VERY lazy). But now I’m all set to try and get back on track as I was inspired by the many hand crafted goods in little shops we looked around in during our visit to Finland, all kinds of knitted/felted things, jewellery, household stuff etc etc..

I’ve decided to have a go at felting (or fulling as it’s supposedly actually called), so at the minute I’m just knitting up a square (or rectangle) to give it a go and see how the wool looks when felted and how much shrinkage occurs, then I will move on to make some proper items (I have a few ideas under my hat).

So hopefully there should be more regular posting coming from me! (not that anyone reads this anyway :p)

I decided to try out having a go with Hama beads after seeing various cool posts on craft sites. I’d never used these beads before (not even when I was a child) so this was my first attempt!

It’s a PacMan Ghost coaster, turned out ok I think I’m gonna have a go at making some more Hama bead stuff at the weekend, maybe make some more things from Shrinkles and also maybe finally get round to having a go with the Fimo I got back in September!

Last week during our lovely time off work me & Chris took a trip to Hobbycraft. I knew I wanted to buy some shrinkles, so got some, and got quite a few other things. Ended up spending £50 in there :p (oops!)

Anyways, today I had my first proper go (ever) of making some jewellery with said Shrinkles (I had a quick go last week just to see how they worked, but only made a keyring). So today I made a bracelet of little cassette tapes and I don’t think it came out too bad (it’s not great or anything, but for a first try I’m quite pleased!)

Here’s how it’s looking tonight, it’s getting there.