Halloween Dress Part 1: Raiders of the lost charity shop

So my dear first born likes to set me challenges. She doesn't see them as challenges she just sees them as simple requests to her mum. Her latest challenge started something like this. Girl Child: Mummy you know how you says it's better to make something than to buy it? Me: Yes...... Girl Child: Great…

Throw Back Thursday – Timeless

So I finally remembered it was Thursday (I do know the days of the week but having to juggle cronic pain and kids means I sometimes don't know what day it is till Sunday comes around and it's another week. I've been looking at this book again. Last time I had a bit of tounge…

Oh for overlooks sake!

So I've been having a pretty bad flare up the last couple of weeks with the change in weather to autumn. And this week I've had the worst flare up yet. So to cheer myself up I decided to teach myself something. Pain leads to grumpiness, grumpiness leads to anger and as we all know…

WIP Wednesday – Wool three ways

So Wednesday and I have three WIP's and a finished. And somehow they are all different ways to work wool. I used to think wool was a horrible boring thing. I used to look at knitted things and shudder. Then along came girl child and her grand mothers both knitted her things and I fell…

Friday Review – Let’s all go to King Falls

Apologies for the lack of Throwback Thursday this week, bad pain day yesterday evening, but next week I promise more of the vintage knitting goodness. So I'm still listening to pod casts as I Potter about and sit down with various crafts. This week I have mainly been felting. And when I haven't been doing…

WIP Wednesday – it’s not what it currently looks like.

Well I haven't done one of these for a while. Kind of missed weekly updates but for a while weeks just bled into one another. So this week I is mostly knitting and felting (apologies for obscure British comedy references). So after my happy trip to a LYS and my mojo coming back I actually…

Picking up the sticks.

So since the flare up of my neck back in February I've lost a lot of the impulsion to knit. I've recently started to crochet again and it's great but I miss knitting. It's not like I haven't got unfinished projects, (What sort of knitter Doesn't have unfinished projects.) I just haven't had the 'spark'…

Friday Review – Lore

As crafters we have a rare gift superpower, we can create beautiful works of art whilst binge watching huge amounts of TV on Netflix (or Prime or Crunchy roll). I have finished many TV series whilst knitting or felting. Anime is one of my favourite things to binge craft watch. Along with excessively violent TV…

Throwback Thursday – Yesterday’s Active wear

I thought about throw back Thursdays and posting old pieces of my work didn't do a whole lot for me. Sure I like seeing my old work but when I do I cringe and think how I would make now. So I sort of abandoned throwback Thursday for a while. That was until one of…

Always the last minute

So it's nearly that time again when parents all across the UK breath a sigh of relief as the summer holidays come to an end. I have loved the time with girl child, we have done some things, been places and done what she wanted to do, learn history. Let me explain now that girl…