Time To Create

Time to create

Myself and a group of crafty friends go on a sewing retreat every year, of course that hasn't been possible the past couple of years, but finally last week we managed it, well most of us, an injury resulting from a fall, kept one member in hospital, but she did manage a couple of visits later in the week.

it is a time to relax, spend time with friends, enjoy being creative without interruptions.

a great time, sewing during the day, crochet in the evening in front of the telly, bliss!!

I didn't think I got much done but I suppose I did really, a quilt topper, four bags( one already gone to its new home) finished my felted notebook cover and evenings working on my harbour blanket.

and as a group, that's quite some creativity going on there, notice 3 harbour blankets being worked on lol

so planning begins for the next one, bring it on.

 

Lets play with wool.

Winter means crochet!!

well anytime means crochet to be fair!

I've always got something crochet or knitting related on the go, at least a couple at a time!

Over Christmas I worked on the yuletide from Attic24, loved this one, well in the end I did, when I first saw the sneak peaks of it, it didn't take my fancy but it grew on me and in the end I succumbed and ordered and really enjoyed making it, would like to go again with different colour ways too.

I have worked on a few baby blankets over the last few months too, leftovers and odd balls of wool, nice to work on smaller projects and quick finishes too.

and of course socks, I love making my socks, when I asked my sun in law what he wanted for Christmas the answer was nothing, don't worry about me which quickly changed to oh actually some of your socks please, soon sorted that out and he was very pleased with them too!

these are my quick 2 needle sock pattern design, cause I cant stand using more than 2 needles or circular needles so I made me own design up, this is my hand spun pair, 

mmm love them!

 

Oh i am really rubbish at keeping my blog up to date, i don't know how i had time to go to work 40 to 50 hours a week, i seemed to be more organised then, oh and having the hour or so first thing in the morning to blog maybe what kept this going. maybe i need to set myself a timetable of what to do when, that would help me out now, maybe that should be a new years goal, to get organised!!

mmm need to think about this.

my journaling seems to have lost its spot as well at the minute although that's because I'm just not organised in the craft room, a reorganise is on the cards.

and then maybe a timetable of what to do when would be good. as sewing is my business i feel that i should devote all my time to that and feel guilty if i don't but surely i need to give some of my time to the other things i enjoy too, see a timetable may be in order.

but i need to bring things up to date in here, last time i blogged it was July, although that seems like yesterday, its now November!! whoops!!

so what's been happening since July?

Well

and i think these are in the wrong order......

    

Polly came to stay, was meant to be a 4 dayer but it ended up just one night but we managed to get some sewing in and spend some time together, it was over all too quickly as it always is!!

i have been doing the vintage market all year which has been lovely, just once a month on a Sunday, love doing the markets, this is from the 1940's weekend they had in the park, only did the Sunday but it was an amazing day, back to its proper spot in May for 2022 so will be doing both days for that one, looks to be a great event.

      

we formed a crochet group, our first meet up was in the country park, we have since moved to hill top farm where we meet have lunch and crochet, always get comments from other people that are there.  just a small little group, Gemma, Elaine, Allison, Dawn and myself

sewing wise i have done quite a lot, one being the printing workshop, not that the full workshop has happened yet bt Elaine and Gemma did try this out for me, a lovely afternoon.

we haven't managed to have our retreat yet but this is now booked for February WOOHOO, cant wait!

we have had a couple of meetups though, Susan, Ann, Ben Barb and myself.

miss spending time with these guys so looking forward to February.

just a few of the projects i have been working on since July, there have been many, i will do a separate post for the Christmas projects.

some new notebook cover designs, plus bag fabrics, they change so quickly as i run out of fabrics, 

some crocheting and wool spinning using drop spindles that Niall made for me, love this!

we also did a crochet along doing the grace blanket, all the colours are gorgeous, we all did something different, must get some photo's of all the colours together.

     

so a little catch up from July to about October. 

 

Crochet Lap Throw/Blanket

When its snowing outside where is the best place to be?

snuggled upon the sofa with your hand knitted socks and your crochet lap blanket and a good book!

my book is ..... A year at the chateau, Dick and Angela Strawbridge, great read, or watch of the series!!

 inspired by Aria by Attic 24 (i have made that one too!)

this one i made using a range of stylecraft wool, lots of leftovers from different projects.