Winging

Whoop, whoop, whoop! Another yarn-y thing finished and as of this moment, winging its way in the post to the giftee.


I do believe I've got this crochet scarf pattern down pat now. In fact, I need to confess that I actually finished this one last weekend. It was just too dark to photograph and I was too knackered to get my arse off the couch.


And thanks for understanding my angst over the comment-slash-email thing. Craft bloggy peeps are the best!

One more thing, you'd think that with time being a premium around here, I'd spend every precious spare minute crafting. But nooooo! It would seem I can't shake off the terrible habit of clicking that dang mouse whenever I see a nice bit of fabric. Ack! The piles are out of control again. The geezer is threatening to flog them all on ebay. And I'm meant to be boxing them all up. Anyhow, I may need to throw them (the geezer and the kiddo) out of the flat for a whole afternoon one weekend so that I can get to some sewing......my last weeks of sewing before we up and move the whole lot across to the other side of the harbour.

Anyhow, I gotta get on with the next wip.

Cheerio!

Couch quilt top

I sometimes don't know where I get my extra energy from, but obviously there were some in reserve on Friday night. You'd think after a long week of work, I'd be in my usual spot on the couch just vegetating (like a potato). But no, I could spot the light at the end of the tunnel with this quilt top.


Finished patching all the rows together last night and it's done! I can't quite believe it myself. Yep, I had to prove to myself that I can finish whopping big projects even when crafting time is scant. Though, technically, this isn't finished by a long shot. I'm just sending it off for someone else to help finish it for me.

Anyhow, it's not that huge a quilt.....about 50 inches square. The winter light is poor for photo-taking, but that's white linen I've combined with the ginger blossom there. There's a bit of liberty and some other prints. The fat quarter stack I got didn't end up with the variety of colours or prints I was after, so I had to comb the stash.


As you can guess, like many other blogger crafters, I was inspired by this quilt. I just opted for the rows to be a lot closer and I had to mix up the colour scheme, with the ascending diagonal in pink hues, while the descending diagonal are in greens.

So, bloggy peeps, I hope you're having a productive weekend, too. I'm going to tackle one of the other wips.

Cheerio!

PS. Here's the deal on the emails. I can't seem to get on top of them anymore. Ack! If you leave me a comment, I'll leave a comment on your blog next time I visit. Okeydokes?! Fair is fair, and as always I thank you for your lovely and generous comments.

Update: Cos I'm anal I dragged the geezer into the freezing cold just so I could get better photos. If you're wondering what I'm on about up there.

In point

I'm so seriously behind on my blogging duties. I hope all you peeps excuse my extreme tardiness in the email replying department. Fortunately for me, craft bloggers are so much more understanding than your usual "joe blow" on the street.


So what's been happening?

• I started another project. After all, what's another unfinished crafty thingy to do on my already cramped work table? That makes it two quilts, one woolly something, and another one of these......hmmm, four in the pile and counting. Maybe I'll start another one to make a nice lot of five.

• I forgot to mention that I serendipitously ran into Kellie a few weeks ago at the craft show. We had been playing a bit of email tag, trying to organise a meet-up and lo, I called out her name when I recognised her face above some fabric piles at the Amitie stall. Such a lovely, talented girl....and she is even more delightful in person, than I expected.

• I still love my new job, although after four weeks I don't feel like the newbie anymore. And we've slotted nicely into routine. I'm even feeling energised in the evenings again. On the downside, we have even less time for house work, blech! Not that our place was ever immaculate.
  

• I missed yesterday's blogmeet....boo hoo hoo. Another downside to working full-time. I may need to organise some random days off here and there, perhaps a first Friday of the month sometime in the next few months.

• Another upside, I discovered a colleague who knits somewhat obsessively. We've started our collective yarn fingering, her knitting, my crochet, on the half hour bus ride to work. I joked that we must look odd to the other serious suits on the bus. But then, they're all too busy catching up on sleep (its before 8am) to care. Practicing for my retirement, you know.
  

• We're eagerly awaiting the reno completion on a townhouse we're doing up on the other side of town. The fricking kitchen guy is the slowest slowpoke ever. He does a really flawless job (we've used him before for some cabinets) and he's cheap, but he's the tortoise of cabinet makers. Ack! Anyhow, now that the end is in sight we need to start the necessary, but unsavoury task of packing. I can't quite believe the amount of stuff and junk we've collected. A big clean-out is in order, I think.

Okeydokes! I must get back to my weekend and try finish one of these wips somehow.

Hope you all have good weekend!