Welcome to my Blog, a Crafting Year

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I taught myself to knit in 2011 I have been posting photos of my knitting creations on facebook but as I am starting to bore my friends I have created this blog to record my progress. Then I thought I might try my hand at other crafts and see how I get along. I will try a different craft every month and you can read about my successes and failures and even laugh at my photos as I try different things like felting, crochet, sewing, papercrafts etc and try and make a few things from the kids favourite book Star Wars crafts, amongst others...lets see how it goes

Thursday, 15 March 2012

Brides Choice

Well I have made loads of different designs and settled on 3 final ones that I have sent to the Bride to be and she has chosen. So now I need to make 80 place labels. I can tell you that it is a traditional design, simple and elegant and won't be too fiddly. However she liked another as well so I am trying to incorporate that into the table name/number card.

Meanwhile I am back to knitting and have found a fab little book that has knitted Sports dolls so I am busy making 2 karate dolls for my 2 karate boys. Its all a bit small and fiddly and as I have just started a new job it is going slowly.
The book is called Knitting for Gold by Sue Mc Bride.
 I love the weight lifter

I have abandoned my knitted and crocheted jumper for the moment as it was proving to be a very difficult crochet pattern. Even my crochet teacher struggled with it as it was written in a strange way but I have found a new website called www.crochet me.com and bought a really lovely and simple pattern for another top that is knitted and crocheted so I may give that a go if I can use the same wool.

My crafting efforts have slowed this month but I have started a new part time job and with the dogs and the family (not to mention a dog paw covered house) I am finding it harder to find the time but I will persevere.
We are halfway through March already so I need to start thinking about a craft for April.
Any ideas??

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