After a blitz of knitting frenzy I now haven't done any in a week. Been playing a video game instead, ahem. Hopefully will do some this week.
I found a layout I liked for this blog this morning so have spent some time fiddling with it and with a Flickr slideshow on the side, which seems to be working the way I want...it should just be showing a slideshow of pictures of craft stuff I have done. I need to take a lot of pictures though to add to it, ones of my cross stitch (I used to have pictures somewhere but not sure if they still exist), pictures of the quilts I've done - or half done as the case may be, my artwork and other stuff.
I do have some pictures of some scrapbooking I've done though. I started scrapbooking in the summer of 2006 in the UK when my mother-in-law was visiting from the US. She had tried to get me into it before, by sending me a kit of scrapbooking supplies (although to be honest a lot of the stuff in it was not my taste), but with two kids 17 months apart I didn't really have a lot of time. So while she was visiting I decided to give it a go. I loved it, and made a few pages, joined UKScrappers and made a local friend and with her started going to a crop. Life took over in mid-2007 which was then taken over even more by our impending move back to the US and all the immigration work that went with it, so in the last year I have hardly done any sadly. I brought all my best equipment with me though so hopefully I can restart it sometime, and now mother-in-law actually lives with me I can do it with her, and she has loads of supplies.
This was the first page I made, and I still quite like it. I tend to go for clean, simple designs, but occasionally I experiment with making things more fluid, usually in circle journals for other people. Other pages I've done for me and for circle journals (and a couple of other projects like a christmas ornament and an exloding pyramid) are all in pictures on the Flickr slideshow to the right. If it works the way I hope it does, you should be able to click on them to see the photos bigger.
I do have some pictures of some scrapbooking I've done though. I started scrapbooking in the summer of 2006 in the UK when my mother-in-law was visiting from the US. She had tried to get me into it before, by sending me a kit of scrapbooking supplies (although to be honest a lot of the stuff in it was not my taste), but with two kids 17 months apart I didn't really have a lot of time. So while she was visiting I decided to give it a go. I loved it, and made a few pages, joined UKScrappers and made a local friend and with her started going to a crop. Life took over in mid-2007 which was then taken over even more by our impending move back to the US and all the immigration work that went with it, so in the last year I have hardly done any sadly. I brought all my best equipment with me though so hopefully I can restart it sometime, and now mother-in-law actually lives with me I can do it with her, and she has loads of supplies.
This was the first page I made, and I still quite like it. I tend to go for clean, simple designs, but occasionally I experiment with making things more fluid, usually in circle journals for other people. Other pages I've done for me and for circle journals (and a couple of other projects like a christmas ornament and an exloding pyramid) are all in pictures on the Flickr slideshow to the right. If it works the way I hope it does, you should be able to click on them to see the photos bigger.
We've just spent the last 3 days without electricity due to the remnants of Hurricane Ike thundering through. We weren't even in the direct path, just on the edge!
Anyway, a few days without electricity gave me some opportunity to finish the kids scarves I promised them. I'm glad I got chunky wool and big needles as they knitted up really fast, Abby's I finished in one day.
Now that I have finished them I am hoping to continue on with making a baby blanket for the new baby (I am doing it in squares of light blue, darker blues and white and sewing them together...not quite sure on the sewing part yet!), and I am also hoping to make at least one hat and possibly a jacket for the baby as well, although I've not done either before!
Here is Abby's scarf, the flash has made it a lot pinker than it is though, it's more a rose sort of colour really. And then Andrew's scarf in his favourite colour, green (the flash has messed up that colour too, it's more of a forest green than the photo).
Anyway, a few days without electricity gave me some opportunity to finish the kids scarves I promised them. I'm glad I got chunky wool and big needles as they knitted up really fast, Abby's I finished in one day.
Now that I have finished them I am hoping to continue on with making a baby blanket for the new baby (I am doing it in squares of light blue, darker blues and white and sewing them together...not quite sure on the sewing part yet!), and I am also hoping to make at least one hat and possibly a jacket for the baby as well, although I've not done either before!
Here is Abby's scarf, the flash has made it a lot pinker than it is though, it's more a rose sort of colour really. And then Andrew's scarf in his favourite colour, green (the flash has messed up that colour too, it's more of a forest green than the photo).
Another attempt at a craft blog! I've had several over the years. Basically I like doing lots of crafts, but to be honest have very little staying power to actually complete projects! Over the years I have done lace-making, knitting, crochet, quilting, sewing, cross-stitch, scrap-booking. I also used to draw and paint, but haven't done any of that in some time. I also no longer do lacemaking as I left all my equipment with my mum back in 1997.
I still enjoy cross-stitch, scrapbooking and quilting...I have a quilt I started in 2001 that I still have not finished though! Recently I have taken up knitting again, although I am still very much a novice. Perhaps I will do separate posts for the separate crafts, and upload some photos for each. Or more likely, I will forget about this blog all together...
I still enjoy cross-stitch, scrapbooking and quilting...I have a quilt I started in 2001 that I still have not finished though! Recently I have taken up knitting again, although I am still very much a novice. Perhaps I will do separate posts for the separate crafts, and upload some photos for each. Or more likely, I will forget about this blog all together...
