Happy New Year - 2011

A new year has begun and after having an extended break from blogging I feel refreshed and ready to get going once again with a fresh new look.

Well what have I been up to in the last 6 months?

I finished up the Ripple Blanket a few months ago. I decided that it was big enough for now and if I want to make it any bigger at a later date, I can just add more rows.

Just before Christmas I won a full fat quarter set of the "Sweet Broderie" fabrics from the lovely Rosalie Quinlan.

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That is 35 delicious fat quarters. I am thinking that I would love to make a quilt with them but am not quite sure yet.

My lovely sister-in-law gave me this pack of assorted buttons for Christmas and they go perfectly with the fabric.

I have also been having fun making a variety of cards and scrapping notebook covers.

I sold these at our Craft stall at Carols Alive. Will definitely be doing more of these in the future as they are lots of fun.

Well until next time

Creative Spaces

Well, Craft camp was a success as I managed to finish not one but two projects.

The first being the Cinderberry Stitches "Paris Collection" bag....

And the second, turning this.....

into "Kirsty's Granny Shrug". I never liked the first cardigan that I made so frogged it and made this instead. This shrug was so quick and quite simple, even if I did end up having to do it 1 1/2 times. Some things that I would probably do next time is use a drapier (is that even a word) yarn as I used two strands of 8ply Carnival Acrylic which I feel has come out a little stiff. I would also like to apologise for the photo quality.

Well that's it for this week. To see more creativity, visit Creative Spaces at Kirsty's place.

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My Creative Space - Again

It seems that this is all I am blogging about lately, but at least it keeps me up to date and on track. Although it only seems like yesterday that I last blogged.

I have made more progress on this....

the colours are much more vibrant in real life. It is now at a size where it actually is starting to keep me warm as I am working on it.

I also managed to pick these fabrics out of my stash....

for the "Paris Collection" bag. I am hoping to have them cut out for next week. I am waiting on some Hanky Linen that I ordered from here so that I can do the stitchery part.

Maybe next week I will have something else to share. We will have to wait and see.

You can see some more creativeness over here.

Until next time....

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