Evie's shawl SOS and a few others things.

  Evie's shawl SOS

my progress is slow with this, she's now 7 weeks old(there about) It's my knit cafe project and I haven't managed that for two weeks!;-(  so I thought id do a little and when i pulled it out of my project bag! this has happened,yarn snap? 
Or I cut something I shouldn't?
The way I see it is that I have three choices.......


As being knit I cant work out what to do, so it's frog it, but I've spent weeks.
  
Embrace the hole?

Or take it to the next knit cafe and see if someone could help;-(

 Below
My Crocheted garden planter.

I happily planted my sweet peas, it wont last forever but I figured why not brighten up an old wicker tub, I made a lining using a plastic bag;-)

 Sewing.

  I so gotta Sow......


My sewing machine has been worth its weight in gold this last two weeks, I have customised five band t shirts.  Completed beans duvet cover that's made from all his young teen years metal tops(back burner for years).  Customised my birthday dress with a pretty little trim. (Primark) so it needed customising.

I even heard the scariest thing the other day on the radio, LBC (so fact) that people where coming to the UK for holidays just to hit Primark Oxford street? (shocking)



Jelly 

My graffiti being appreciated.  below my art that I donated all for a good cause.
http://jelly.org.uk/2011/05/06/things-we-have-been-doing-lately/

 Mines at the bottom (The orang-utan artist unknown to me)

 Back to sewing............

I brought this basket when I was 19, so yes it's officially vintage.  It was one of the first things that I brought when I left home.  As a child I was always fixated by sowing boxes, and there contents,button tins especially.  My mother had a vintage Tupper ware box(Brwony orange with a cream lid!)

That happily held all her needles and treads, for years.  My nan (more more) Mother, mother had a tin full of buttons I would tread on to cotton to make necklaces(I was very young).  

But sadly I out grew this box along time ago but the memory made me hold on.  

But I have decided that its time to upgrade.  The reason I haven't is that what would I do with this cherished box?

Yes I have to admit I have been a little taken with the Kath Kidston! Happens to us all eventually, but why buy new when old was still in good working order just squashed!  and then my good friend gem said that she needed to get a sewing box as she was forever losing her pins!  

Music to my ears, she is going to happily give my retired box a new home and come my birthday ill be treating my self hopefully to a big shiny new one;-)

What to do with a doily and two balls of Sirdar Yarn

Inspired by a cardi that I had seen in Primark (two mentions;-() I decided to construct my own but using one of the many vintage doily's that I have collected.

Below yarn and progress so far (detailed blog to follow)

Mixed Colour way, ill Ill finmd the label and post name(Just in-case)

Sirdar Designers & Cup Cakes.

Sirdar Designers and Cup Cakes........

Coils, coils ,coils it's currently a huge production line.

(Work force myself)

They are needed to hang from trees, I figured the acrylic coils will weather well and at the same time spin in the wind. That's my plan (watch this space)

A night away so a Train trip.

Reading to Yorkshire (Barnsley) to be exact.  My good friend had moved away and begun her dream job and I was honoured to be her plus one for a late Xmas do with none other than the complete Sirdar work force:-)


Oh yes she is officially Sirdar knit wears newest designer!

(hush incase thats a sercet)

 

http://www.sirdar.co.uk/

Oj oj oj.

The quirky little place fits the quirky little person, just heaven.

Always one for enjoying methods of transport that mean I can make Crochet in mass.  Completed , my scarf and boulder cover number four.

My library project is rocking.....

I think I might not have mentioned this yet but come February my art will be all over the  Woodley library.
 
Blog entry Library project 
http://theknittingforartexhibition.blogspot.com/2011/01/project-decorate-woodley-library.html
The centre court yard, secret garden will be a shining exhibition of crochet graffiti, incorporating my ducks.  Not foreign waters, but water all the same.

 My tumble dryer broke at xmas, sadly unrepairable.
( I know not Very PC, but its a luxury I allow)
And we got a new one, but no time to fit it.  So it's become a shelf to stack yet more knitting goods.  (project Library)

Photo from phone of part of a boulder cover, that's train crochet.

Cup cakes galore at the Elsecar Heritage Centre

Shop stop Ania's Cup Cakes, my choice lemon.  texture of sponge fab, icing a lot but that's the plus of a cup cake.  My disappointment was that the only thing about the cake that was actaully flavoured lemon was the little sweet on top.

I would recommend some jif lemon( a little goes along way)  to the icing and the sponge but the presentation and content was great, just as it should be..... 

Just add more lemon;-)