My Creative Space

Has stacks in it again...
The latest stack is berets in various stages of construction and embellishment. More news on this little diversion soon.

And stacks of yarn, hooks, needles (from multiple trips to Spotlight this week), books (from Lara's collection).... and scarves (hot off the hook).

The new bag pattern is still in pattern-testing stage. When the feedback comes back, I'll finish the final tweakings and polishings and it'll be ready to go (so you still have a little bit of time to enter the pattern giveaway if you haven't yet). I'll be back with news about that - and another thing - soon.

In the meantime, I have a few crochet motifs to learn....

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Winter Woollies

Like I have loads of time on my hands.... I've suddenly developed an I-want-to-play-with-yarn obsession. Blogland has a lot to answer for, methinks.

On Saturday afternoon, the wee girl and I stopped in at Spotlight and stocked up on all we needed for a bit of knitting, crochet, french-knitting and pom-pom-making.

I'll save the kiddie-craft for another post (it truly deserves it). For now we're going to talk about the two crochet hats I made by... ummmm... 2am Sunday morning.



You could say I was hooked. Just making stuff up as I went along, marvelling at how quickly things came together. Enjoying a new medium for an old theme.

By Tuesday morning (2.20am....) there was another hat and a little scarf (and a lovely sit and chat with some real crochet experts).

By 11pm Tuesday there was a knitty scarf. (Big needles, slubby yarn, small neck-warmer-ish wooliness.... and so much instant gratification that I doubt I'll take it off all week).
I lost interest in knitting and crochet when I was about 14, so my skills are basic. I can't read a pattern and have no idea about the terminology of woolly-craft-language, but I think I'd like to learn more.

No doubt, you'll see more of the fuzzy stringy stuff around here.