Blogging to-be or not to-be that is my dilemma

What exciting for 2011

My you tube is exciting, very exciting to think that at the time I took this just before xmas 5000!

Yes Five thousand people have looked at my work.  Pretty amazing;-)

My blog entry not so exciting.........

I guess it's the time, January blue's the slump that follows Christmas.

I have been a strong blogger most of the year
(years now, 2006 when I first dared to blog) But I have hit a wall.

Not as inspired?

To Busy?(I'm doing the stuff just not cataloguing in my usual diary form)

No ummpph

My camera is dust collecting......
I think its not contagious like flu, I'm just having a little sabbatical.

Below twins blanket part 1
 

 

 The only time a fluffy edging (novel yarn) is cool/for kids touch and feel so very important.

Bellow Sherlock Holmes Cape/not a lot of progress but a ridiculous amount of stitches.

 Arm holes

  

I have made this in four parts and used crochet to fix the seams that allow for the arms a complete WIP.   I also feel that it had started to look a little like a sack for potatoes but that could just be my state of mind......... 

I'm not unpicking(frogging) as it's took so bloody long to get this far/ that and i can not.   And as for all of you who know me well, know that crochet is my thing and unfortunately I do not have a Karin here (my knit guru) who could help me with this amount of stitches.;-(

poncho/cape prep
http://knits-and-pearls.blogspot.com/2010/09/its-all-pants-kidding.html

My equator

My major fault line, dropped a row and so on picking up the stitches I think it was backwards ?

I believe in working with one mistakes.........

Even my edging is going to need a weightier stitch of some sort.

 My kids love crochet my dog love crochet, here he is a not so sick (much better) Rasmus, curled up on the sofa.   Where of cousre he's not supposed to be...........Don't tell Ceaser, having a like Cat nap or should it be Dog nap.

 

This is me Skirt progress below.

Graffiti blog header from my knitting for art exhibition, turned skirt.

Recycle reuse.

 Threaded elastic to make a waist band using a daring pin, this was really tough using black yarn as its so hard to see the stitches and the elastic goes in-between so that it can not be noticed unless really stretched.

The front has a gap where the banner was joined to make the skirt this will need a free-form triangle shape to fill the gap.  WIP

Things to-do

Exhibition Woodley Library Feb (Very exciting stuff)

Re applying RGA March.


To blog?
Or not to blog, that is the question...... 
I really need to kick my blogging blues;-)

Crochet graffiti gets recycled into a skirt

Vivacious

The big mistake........not any more.

My dyslexic S a 2?

Any how its no longer a problem as on the round who knows what it spells and if you stair for that long to work it out, you would be pretty noisy.

http://knits-and-pearls.blogspot.com/2010/08/washing-line-crochet-and-precious.html

Pick up the stitches almost like knitting on the round only it's crochet.

A bottom warmer for sure, and I mist say needed........

What has happened to the UK a country that the thinnest jacket was required in

winter, it seems the season have shifted.........

I'm wearing my Swedish Jacket;-(

I thread the elastic through using a large darning needle, to help keep shape and hold up if the stitches should stretch and using the stitch that I have tried to demonstrate below cover up the elastic.

With this stitch.....

You are almost going back over what you have done before.

Party Dress gets a re-vamp


Potential party dress gets an overhaul

I made this last xmas and have just never been happy with the sleeves deciding that I could wear this as outrageous at it seems if I played down down the straps and put a black t shirt under (long sleeve of cousre) I figured it could be wearable.

Major problems

where as follows
1) I had no idea how I'd made the dress.
2) I could not just unpick (as the stitches where some how side ways)
3) had none of the original yarn to help fix.

Problem solved I cut off the sleeves (believe me I spent an hour trying to work it out! before I committed such a crime.

Below picked up stitches roughly with a life line.


Added an edge, as neatly as I could...... hiding the bitter mess of the insides, I'm showing a very selective picture as basically it was a major patch up.