Update

Greetings Friends,

Apologies for the not so weekly, weekly updates. I have had a series of busy weekends. Last weekend I was collecting my Granny form the airport. She is the amazing woman who planted the seed of crafts and nourished it with bits of fabric and scraps of wool to make the craft nut you know today. She is Awesome, she has super human bargain hunting skills, she presented me with a bag of 7 balls of sock yarn that she got from a charity shop (thrift store) that she paid 35p a ball for! The charity shops in Scotland are an untapped resource! I was so excited about showing her my crocheted jacket and she loved it so much I’ve had to lend her the book for the pattern. Anyway… I tried to explain hexipuffing to her over the phone and failed and managed to show her when she came to visit, I tried to teach my mum to hexipuff but I can’t say it was very successful.

I also went to Thorpe Park at the weekend. It’s the first theme park I’ve ever been to and it was amazing. I got a sore throat from screaming on all of the rides and ate far too much sugar.

Well back to the crafty stuff.

Hexipuffing current total is 24! I’m stepping it up a bit now as I have many weekends away and it’s an easy project to pick up and take with me and knit on the train/bus. Thanks to Granny’s kind gift I have loads more sock yarn to play with as well. Which reminds me, I have promised many pairs of socks to beloved, best get started soon.

It was my mum’s birthday this week. She has had many of my hand made projects inflicted upon her and it’s hard to think what I can make for her now. This year I made her a keyring:

Which I am quite pleased with and I gave her one of these awesome Tea Wallets. I got the idea from Craftster but I used it to keep handbag essential in like plasters and paracetamol etc. I think it will come in very handy.

It’s also my friend Ellie’s birthday at the end of the month and I’m going to visit her this weekend. I’m so excited as it’s going to be a little reunion of a few university friends. I made Ellie a crocheted clutch from the left over merino yarn from my jacket. I reinforced it with thick felt so it would be more stiff and lined it with pretty fabric. I didn’t write the pattern but if I make it again I’ll make sure I do J

I’ve added a new album to Maggie Makes Stuff called Gifts and Comissions where I can showcase things that I have made. Take a look, you might like it J

With being so busy my Ravellenic project is a bit further behind than I would like it to be. But thankfully this giant knitting does work up quickly. Now that my friends and family know that I am stash busting all of the horrible synthetic novelty yarn people have been donating more so that they can get it out of their lives. I feel this rug is becoming a community interests projects.

I’m so glad that I could make this post today, it almost didn’t happen. I accidentally spilt water on my laptop and now the keyboard won’t work. I was so worried that I’d have to go begging to the bank to get money to get a new one but thankfully I have been able to plug in a USB keyboard and it works perfectly. I just have to put up with this and save for Lappy 2.0