Yarn play

Forgive me for being absent. I've been preoccupied with my new toys.....some wool and a crochet hook. Ack! I can't believe I'm enjoying this! We've also been a very snotty household (blame the bub's germs) the past week. The crochet thankfully can be taken to the couch or to bed. So after about four days of wrist-work, this collection of limbs, ears and torso finally took shape.


After some more stitching, which took less time than one of those ears, here's the bub's new playmate. I just managed to take one happy snap, before she swiped it off the fabric pile.


And speaking of fabric, I do believe the mojo has been restored back to ship-shape. Very soon, I'll be showing some fabric I've been playing with.

Hokay, we're off to enjoy the sun. Cheerio!

Mojo shmojo

Really, my mojo levels are not up to the usual worthy of this blog. It's quite frustrating 'cos I've got at least two outstanding projects which should've been finished last year. The inspiration is still not up to par around here, but I may have found something to wake-up the creative impetus.

About a fortnight ago, spurred on by the ripple-envy from last year's craze, I signed up to a beginner's crochet class at Tapestry Craft. That's my class practice swatch down there.


I've been wanting to play with yarn for a bit, but have been and still am a miserable failure at knitting. There was that granny square lesson I did last year, which I'm afraid has since evaporated into the ether. And some unsuccessful attempts at trying to pick it up from reading books and tutorials online. Anyhow, I must've absorbed enough crochet know-how bits that it all just clicked during the lesson on Saturday.


I've just finished tackling "soft waves" on a practice swatch with some cheap yarn. I know. I'm so behind the times. And lookee, lookee! I can see a nice new scarf for me this winter, once I've tripped up to get some better wool, of course. (Note to self - do not build a yarn stash!)


I'm diving right this moment into attempting something from this book. Wish me luck!

And I hope everyone had a good weekend. Cheerio!

Horsing around

I have, I have...but in a crafty way, of course. All that thread sorting got me itchy for some hand stitching. And I ended up with another keyring of a dala horse. This one was actually inspired by this card I've saved in my etsy favourites.


I've sewn the japanese flowery fabric on the back and some spare numbers tape for the loop. My thoughtful sister got me a packet of those metal rings last year.....could she possibly get me some more??? Hint, hint.

Here's a close-up of the stitching for you curious peeps.


The mojo is still a bit on-and-off, so methinks I'll just go with the flow for now and do some actual pattern tracing. Where it leads, the stash or the couch, could only be a good thing.

Cheerio!

Slow wake-up

Methinks the crafting mojo is waking up slowly. I've been coaxing it with a lot of inspiring blog reading and flickr oggling, as well as some craft book page turning.


Thank you, bloggy peeps, for empathising with me. Perhaps it's the heat (although it isn't quite as extreme up our way as for melbourne peeps), perhaps I just need a bit of caffeine in my veins. Either way, I managed one pair of linen trousers for the bub's summer wardrobe. She needs another since she's grown taller again. Gah!

I love this dotty linen fabric! I luckily nabbed it last year from Leslie's shop, for this exact purpose....clothes for the kiddo. Aww geez! Cutting into any of the precious japanese fabric was a little painstaking, since I didn't want to waste it by botching the garment. Fortunately, I had already previously sewn the exact same pattern, just needed to lengthen the leg. It looks very cute on her!

What's next on the list? A bit of thread sorting, I think and some pattern tracing for today. I'm going to keep the momentum happening today. Fingers crossed!

Still the slacker

Perhaps I should be careful what I say in the first few days of the year.....as I seemed to have slipped into a malaise which I'm all too happy to languish in. I've been alternating between tea and cake, while watching a pile of foreign movies.

It didn't help that the computer had been running at a snail's pace for the last fortnight, since we somehow chewed up our broadband allowance too quickly. Someone (the geezer) had been spending too much time on youtube. Blechh!


There has been no crafting of any kind, unless you call fabric fondling a kind of "crafting". No sewing. No painting. No sketching, and up till now no inclination to blog. I just thought to retrieve myself from the comfy couch and let you all know I'm still here.


And I'll be back....don't you worry. I reckon all that intense gift-making leading up to christmas has just tired me a wee bit. Can I count some of those as part of January's quota? Hmmm.

Anyhow, I've already got some more summer clothing planned for the bub and possibly something for me, too. They're just waiting to be cut up and whizzed through.


Okay! I must run! Mostly Martha is waiting. Tootles!

Slacker is my middle name

I hope everyone had a smashing new year! We all stayed up for the 9 o'clock fireworks, otherwise known as the "nanna" fireworks, walking just around the corner to view them from the local neighbourhood grassy strip. By midnight, everyone was in bed and I had to poke the geezer awake just to look at the fireworks from our bedroom window. We can just see the one closest to Manly.

But there is some art! I finished this outstanding project on the last day of 2007.....the very reason of my slacker-ness. Aren't I a slow-poke? (Hopefully, I've now responded to everyone who I owe an extremely late email.)


This really is a painting I made just for me. Having been creating and giving away all those presents got me all worked up and motivated to finish this before the start of the new year.


I'm eagerly ready for whole new batch of projects. I just need to get better organised. And now that the geezer has gone back to work, we can all go back to our regular routines......and I can hog the computer again. He he he!

Okeydokes! I'm off to use up the rest of nap-time thinking up the next lot of crafty to make. I'm intent on easing into the new year slowly. Hope you have a good week! Cheerio!