Cardigan

I've been a bad blogger, I've not blogged for over a week and I didn't show you last weeks beads!! I thought I had, sorry! Anyway I've finally finished my biggest knitting project to date, this lovely cardigan and I'm very impressed with it, it took me a while cause I kept getting distracted by socks (got another pair on the go now). I like the finished item although sewing it up wasn't much fun, lol.

Tidepool Socks

Yippeeee!! I finished my second pair of socks. The pattern for these is from Ravelry and it's nice and simple to knit, the only thing I didn't like about the pattern is that the socks are too short for my liking on the leg bit but it's not something I thought about while knitting them and it's something to think about when knitting my next pair, apart from that they are fab.

Embers

As a beadmaker I sometimes wonder whats happened to beads, sometimes people email you to show you what they've made and this is what happened yesterday. Embers was made by Elizabeth of Evy Design and pictures of it appeared in my inbox yesterday, it's stunning and she's really made my Cosmic Pink beads pop, whats more the beads where only bought at the end of last week!!! Talk about fast work and the wirework is so neat! You can check out more of Elizabeths work here.s

Free Fritties!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been a bit of a bad blogger recently so I've decided to extend the offer I did to my mailling list to my blog readers (if there is any of you left that is, I must blog more).

To Celebrate the Royal Mail Strikes being cancelled I'm offering a free set of fritties on all orders from my website and Etsy shop, all you have to do is put the word 'FRITTIES' in the message to seller box at the paypal checkout, offer ends midnight on Thursday.

Beads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's been Half Term this week and I actually got to my shed!!!!!!! These are some of the beads I made, I have this love/hate relationship with pink. I love the pink glass I used for the core of these beads but it's a pain in the bum to use, lol, and pink is never a colour I wear myself as it just dosen't suit me but in glass form I love it!!!! I seem to have got my encasing mojo back too as I'm encasing loads! Anyway I hope you like them.

My First Handknitted socks

I've finally finished knitting my first pair of socks!!! My friend Alison has been telling me for ages to have a go at knitting myself and that once I got the hang of knitting that socks wouldn't be that hard!!! These where tricky, well the first sock was and it was a bit stop start as I kept calling my Mum so she could explain the pattern but once the first sock was done the second only took a few days. The next pair I have planned is a bit more complicated.

Knitting

I totally forgot about my blog last week. Well not totally but by the time our Hub arrived for the broadband in our new house I was that busy catching up on everything I forgot about my blog. Mind you I've been trying to catch up on forums as well but no actually posted on them.

Anyway it's a bit late to show you the beads I made last week as they are already on my website so I though I'd show you my knitting. These are 2 of the 3 scarf's I've made so far, the top one being mine and the bottom one my sisters who wanted one like mine but in pink. The other scarf is a plain red one for my Son and not as interesting as these, lol. I've got the knitting bug now though and currently have 2 projects on the go, I've finished one sock (need a quite half an hour to start the other one off) and I've done the back and started one of the sides of a cardigan for myself which is quite a big waterfall style one so the sides are BIG, lol.