No I haven't gone completely mad
But September feels more like new year to me than January does, I think it is because I can start to get the house back to normal after the long summer holiday, it's also the start of the new school year as well, for me that means packed lunches again, having to remember what days is PE, swimming, music practice, after school clubs and homework! The word homework can be classified as a swear word in my house at times.
So what have I been doing since I last posted anything on this blog?
1. Well I've finished the ongoing granny square project finally!!!
A picture of some granny squares I did on a weekend trip to Scotland
Don't know what I'm going to do with them all yet, currently they are all in a bag in a box, waiting for a fash of inspiration.
2. I made myself a summer top
Made from a piece of cotton lawn (not Liberty) which I found in Abakhan last year, it was £1.50 a metre in a end of roll sale bin, there was nearly 2 1/2 metres left on the roll so I had the lot for £3.00!
3. Two charity shop finds up cycle projects for my daughters
A £3.99 dress turned into a skirt for my eldest daughter
And so she didn't feel left out
A £1.00 top turned into a skirt for my youngest daughter
They both are pleased with their new skirts, they didn't take long to make, I think the unpicking of the unwanted bits off each items took longer than the actual making of each skirt.
4. Some knitting
Ok this is where things get a little complicated
Well here is the story, as I was approaching the end of the ongoing granny square project I decided to put the crochet hooks away and get the knitting needles out, so the said day arrived I finished, away went the crochet hooks, out came the knitting needles and off I went to rummage around the nice and expensive yarn section of my stash and found this nice sparkle sock yarn
I purchased this last year at Fibre East, along with other yarn from Truly Hooked, the colour is Dusky it's a lovely yarn to work with and a nice colour too. So I found a shawl/scarf pattern in my Ravelry library - no fuss shawl pattern by Susan Ashcroft, which is a lovely easy pattern to knit, a real sit down and relax knit. Well I finished it and I don't like it, I love the pattern and I love the yarn, but the combination of the two together just don't work for me, so it has been abandoned for now and guess what the crochet hooks are out again
An experimental blue crochet project
