More on "colour"

Sharon lists some very useful websites on her blog and this one caught my eye as "colour" is something I find hard to get to grips with: color wizard.

Pair of crocheted corsages!

Easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy! Pair of quick to crochet corsages! We learned the techniques and stitches for this on the recent beginners learn to crochet workshop, and here are two I've made up since!

The observant of you will spot that I've not yet stitched them down or added the brooch back, but that aside they are done!

This project was good for the fact that I can now do a dc, htr and a tr and double yarn round the hook drag it twice thingie stitch without having to look it up in the book!! oh! and a sl st which took me best part of both corsages before I "got" this useful stitch!! (what I was actually doing was in fact a "dc" but I felt if I closed my eyes and did it quickly it could qualify AS a sl st! but I resolved to learning it properly!).

The challenging question NOW is where to FIRST stick my hook when completed the required turning chains! a colleague and I puzzled over this for a good 10mins ..

A new community site for textiles

Sharon has posted on her blog a new venture which looks like it might be of interest to textile folk in general, Stitchin' Fingers is open to everyone and is free to join!

yummy KNITTY card toppers!! (new)

Aren't these gorgeous!


New in today! yummy card toppers, knitty style! couldn't resist buying a pack now to NOT find anyone to use them for!!

Cheapie quilting book and dvd

I didn't have high expectations when I came across this little book and dvd set in local The Works cut price books and stationery shop, but as it was reduced to just a couple of pounds decided to buy it!
I watched most of the dvd and read the book and picked up a couple of pointers and while I wouldn't necessarily recommend it, for the price it was okay for what it was and the quilts are lovely with yummy fabrics, at least!

I'm starting to think about a next quilty project and itching to get started with something but FIRST I must get back to dressmaking! I've neglected this area practically the whole year now, and my wardrobe reflects this, as soon as I have my project underway I plan to sort through my patterns and fabric stash.

Creative Textiles

Today was a quiet session mostly for the benefit of us "level I's" to talk with the tutor individually about our end of year project and sketch books.

I took along a piece of crochet to work on and read through a couple of Quilting Arts magazines inbetween turns and we generally chatted amongst ourselves and shared some of our recent explorations with the bondaweb etc.

My project is not yet started but I have a reasonable idea of what I'm doing and how to go about it and plenty of time to finish it - gulp!! Some of the pieces are already finished and are to a very high standard indeed, such I think is the commitment of the ladies who have attended this course!

We're nearing the end now! and thoughts turn to next year and what to do about returning for a second year.

Crochet! yayy! I can OFFICIALLY do it!!

AND I have the project to prove it!!


On Friday I attended one of Sarah Hazell's beginners crochet workshops along with 12 other newbies, 4 of us coming along from the creative textiles course which was nice!

Of course my hook case is rather more suited to storing a classroom's worth of pencils, rulers and the like with room for an apple and a bottle of water!! but never mind, it IS finished, being JOINED at the sides by some rather desperate hacking at wodges of yarn with both hands and a good bit of heaving on my part!!

It all looked SEW easy on the demonstration!! I'm almost certain I've invented a new way to create faux-buttons but, again, I don't mind as they are at least the right SHAPE (sort of!).

The course was good because I discovered I was wrapping the yarn the wrong way, in fact! and at least I discovered that before habits set in! I was surprised we made a project! and I think the tutor was similarly surprised we achieved as much of it as we did too!
Of course, pal, Kim, was off on one of her mad woman's adventure to see WHAT she could with a hook and some yarn and I'm fully expecting to find she's free form crocheted something spectacular before felting it by tomorrow's class!!

We had a super lunch and then it was back to it - we learned the beginnings of making other projects such as grannies squares and spirally scarves and yummy corsages!
Armed with the basics AND my book! I shall look forward to more fun ahead!!