I received an email from Kate at M is for make this morning, inviting me to take part in this...
As I am a complete novice, I'm thinking this will probably be a fantastic opportunity to get a bit of help from some more experienced sewers along the way! Plus it may give the boost I need to get that sewing machine off for the service it so desperately needs before any dress sewing takes place!
Now to decide which dress to make and the task I'm most looking forward to, choosing some fabric!
last week I attended my first neighbourhood 'knit and natter' gathering, it was lovely and there were fabulous cakes!
Whilst I was there I was taught to knit continental style (essentially holding the yarn in your left hand rather the right). So far, so good, I'm not quite as fast as I am english style yet, but getting close. I'd love to be one of those super speedy knitters, you know where the needles are a blur of motion. I guess it just takes a whole lot of practice. But I'm fairly convinced that I can be a lot quicker with the continental knitting than I am currently. I just need a bit of practice, which is the perfect excuse to knit myself another sweater I feel!
well maybe not so new, I've been making a squirreling these away for months now! I finally got round to photograhphing them all today.
Hopefully they will be in my shop sometime over the next few days.
I made Joelle Hoverson's placket neck sweater for Milo back in the summer and I loved it! The pattern was so easy and quick to knit (it does come from last minute knitted gifts after all). It also introduced me to some new techniques, including knitting on circular needles, which is now by far my favourite way to knit.
So at when time was running out for all the holiday handknits I had promised myself I would make, I figured I'd revisit this for my youngest (and only) nephew.
I used sublime organic cotton, as he has fairly sensitive skin, I thought this would be the best bet and added stripes to the pattern. Adding the stripes meant a whole lot of weaving in at the end, which was fairly painful, but other wise all was well!
I'm afraid, it was so last minute that I didn't have time to photograph it properly, but I did get this one snap of him with my mum, whilst wearing it!
welcome to my little (new) creative space. I have been blogging in various places for a few years now, but I wanted to set up a new place to write about and share my knitting, crochet and sewing adventures.
You can mostly find me over here. I've been making beads, buttons and ninjas from polymer clay for about 3 years now and selling them over on etsy, but I have been knitting and crocheting for a whole lot longer than that. As the ninjas started to become my business and main source of income, my knitting and crochet and stitching became more and more part of my leisure time, with the birth of my little boy 2 years ago in April I was drawn further in to knitting. Having the ability to produce soft warm garments to cover that little body is a fabulous feeling!
I set up a shop to sell some of these creations almost two years ago now, though I've never really dedicated much time to it. I feel that with the dawning of this new year it's time to put a bit more in to it all, I don't want to consider it a business as such because I fear I will begin to lose my passion for all that stitching if it started to become a necessity rather than a pleasure, but I would like to spend more of my time, developing my skills, sharing my patterns and if I can make a little pocket money for more yarn in the process then that will be a wonderful bonus!
Welcome! I hope this will be the start of a fabulous creative adventure!
