Dear Blog,
I'm sorry, I've neglected you. I know I say this every time but I really will try harder to update you from now on. This is hard for me to admit, but recently I've been spending time with another blog. It's really nothing like you though and you mustn't feel threatened by it, I promise! It's just that now that I'm not around so much during the day I find it increasingly difficult to spend time with the computer. You can understand, surely, that when one has been staring at a screen all day, one does not particularly want to spend one's evenings doing the same!
I really hope that you can find it in your heart to forgive me and that things can once again be how they used to be.
Sincerely, with much love and affection,
your friend,
Laura
Thursday, 21 April 2011
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Must try harder
Once more apologies for my lack of noise... the life of a lady of leisure really is very busy you know!
Anyway. Last month I finally finished my latest creation (previously unmentioned due to its being a somewhat overdue Christmas present) and managed to give it to the intended recipient. I am very proud of this creation since it was in fact the first thing I have ever managed to knit properly - and it had purl stitches and a pattern and everything!
Next on my list is a summer dress made from some pretty flowery material I picked up in the sales last year that has just been waiting for me to turn it into something! I know it's not summer yet but winter is dragging and I for one am tiring of it. I'm hoping getting all of my pretty clothes out will encourage the sun to return to us too..?
This is the first time I've really tried to make something from a design all my own and not a purchased pattern, so I hope it will turn out ok! I'm also very excited to finally be the proud owner of my very own dress form (christened Matilda), and last week I found a lovely Liberty print handkerchief in a charity shop for not very much - how could I resist?!
Unfortunately I seem to be one of those people who finds it impossible to start one project and see it through to the finish - I have countless bits of material cut out into something before getting forgotten when the next flash of inspiration strikes! As a child, I found it impossible to start one book and read it all the way through before beginning another - perhaps this is a grown-up version of the same bad habit?! I seem to be able to manage when something needs to be done, such as for a present (aforementioned knitted piece aside), so maybe if the sun comes out the temptation to wear my new dress will be encouragement enough to get me to finish it - I'll call it a present to myself!
Anyway. Last month I finally finished my latest creation (previously unmentioned due to its being a somewhat overdue Christmas present) and managed to give it to the intended recipient. I am very proud of this creation since it was in fact the first thing I have ever managed to knit properly - and it had purl stitches and a pattern and everything!
Next on my list is a summer dress made from some pretty flowery material I picked up in the sales last year that has just been waiting for me to turn it into something! I know it's not summer yet but winter is dragging and I for one am tiring of it. I'm hoping getting all of my pretty clothes out will encourage the sun to return to us too..?
This is the first time I've really tried to make something from a design all my own and not a purchased pattern, so I hope it will turn out ok! I'm also very excited to finally be the proud owner of my very own dress form (christened Matilda), and last week I found a lovely Liberty print handkerchief in a charity shop for not very much - how could I resist?!
Unfortunately I seem to be one of those people who finds it impossible to start one project and see it through to the finish - I have countless bits of material cut out into something before getting forgotten when the next flash of inspiration strikes! As a child, I found it impossible to start one book and read it all the way through before beginning another - perhaps this is a grown-up version of the same bad habit?! I seem to be able to manage when something needs to be done, such as for a present (aforementioned knitted piece aside), so maybe if the sun comes out the temptation to wear my new dress will be encouragement enough to get me to finish it - I'll call it a present to myself!
Sunday, 26 December 2010
Absence makes the heart grow fonder?
Oh dear me, what a long time it's been! For this I can only apologise and hope that you can find it in your kind hearts to forgive me. And I promise to do better next time.
Life has become very busy since my last post - having two jobs and volunteering for charity really does take up an awful lot of time! I think that since last time, I have started at least five projects and finished two... I am proud to say however that one of those two was my very first piece of knitting! After seeing (but foolishly not buying) the new Katia Rizos wool at the Knititng and Stitching Show in October, noting that it looked so easy that even a novice like me could do it, and a significant amount of time trawling the internet, I managed to get hold of a ball of the wool (if one can call it wool) in a lovely tealy blue shade and finally create something that I am not ashamed to admit ownership of! So I haven't just been lazing around in my absence from the land of blogging, I have been learning new skills. Honest.
And since those two jobs of mine will soon be coming to an end, I might actually be able to finish some of the many many projects lying around my house (there's half a sheep somewhere that never got knitted last year...) and try harder to keep up with the mystical blogosphere as well. Once again, my sincerest apologies and I can only hope that nobody missed me too much.
Now, what have you been up to since I went away?
Life has become very busy since my last post - having two jobs and volunteering for charity really does take up an awful lot of time! I think that since last time, I have started at least five projects and finished two... I am proud to say however that one of those two was my very first piece of knitting! After seeing (but foolishly not buying) the new Katia Rizos wool at the Knititng and Stitching Show in October, noting that it looked so easy that even a novice like me could do it, and a significant amount of time trawling the internet, I managed to get hold of a ball of the wool (if one can call it wool) in a lovely tealy blue shade and finally create something that I am not ashamed to admit ownership of! So I haven't just been lazing around in my absence from the land of blogging, I have been learning new skills. Honest.
And since those two jobs of mine will soon be coming to an end, I might actually be able to finish some of the many many projects lying around my house (there's half a sheep somewhere that never got knitted last year...) and try harder to keep up with the mystical blogosphere as well. Once again, my sincerest apologies and I can only hope that nobody missed me too much.
Now, what have you been up to since I went away?
Sunday, 26 September 2010
The trouble with birthday presents...
..is that on many an occasion when I've made something for someone, I end up liking it so much that I have to make one for myself as well. Which isn't so bad until I start running low on supplies - but having just booked tickets to the Knitting and Stitching show next month, hopefully lack of supplies won't be a problem for too long! (No, I haven't still got a lovely piece of fabric and some pretty beads that I got from last year's show sitting around waiting to be transformed, don't be silly.)
I've also managed to make a start on a few things to go on my Etsy shop - not much so far, but watch this space! I think I need to get my designing hat on... has anyone seen it anywhere?
I've also managed to make a start on a few things to go on my Etsy shop - not much so far, but watch this space! I think I need to get my designing hat on... has anyone seen it anywhere?
Monday, 6 September 2010
Lessons in lace
So, I have returned to the South after a lovely trip up to Manchester for the weekend, encompassing one amazing gig at Lancashire County Cricket Ground and a trip to one amazing bead shop. Lots of inspiration to get creating there! Today my mother has also been giving me a masterclass in lacemaking - hopefully soon I will have mastered it and actually manage to make something that looks more like lace and less like a collection of wonky threads...
Friday, 3 September 2010
A day out by steam
The handbag still has not come to fruition it seems, thanks to a semi-spontaneous trip to a steam railway and the Broads with Big Sister yesterday:
And tonight sees a long journey to Manchester for the weekend... maybe crafting can be done in the car?!
(Photographs are the work of my very talented Big Sister!)
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| I spy a steam train |
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| Turning the engine around |
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| Do these make anyone else think of Christmas? |
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| Quack quack |
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| The Wildlife Centre is on its own little island - it even has a drawbridge! |
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| Swan swam swiftly... |
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| Hello heron |
And tonight sees a long journey to Manchester for the weekend... maybe crafting can be done in the car?!
(Photographs are the work of my very talented Big Sister!)
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Post the First
Right now I'm between projects really - well, I say that, but isn't it true that I have a lacy rose still attached to the roll of lace, a knitted Eeyore that needs teazing and sewing together and a brooch that needs recreating since I accidentally sent the last one through the washing machine? Yes, it is. I suppose what I really mean is that I haven't started anything new in the last week or so. Perhaps tomorrow I'll make a handbag.
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