A New Look.....

......I fancied a change so I have altered the background of my blog! A fresh start as it were and I promise to try not to neglect it so much!

Where have I been???

A very extremely belated Happy New Year to anyone who reads this or stumbles across it!!!

To answer my question, Where have I been??? It was an immensely chaotic end to last year which saw me recovering from an operation to remove my gall bladder that I had NO idea I had a problem with! That was late November, before I knew it christmas was upon us! Then I went to Plymouth to see the new year in with my new man and his family while my tribe spent some time with their father!

On a personal front the seperation from my husband has all settled down, I'm in a new relationship and very happy. My divorce will soon be finalised and other than him seeing our children etc I will be very glad to close that chapter of my life.

Crafting wise I have been very slow and not done masses since I completed the cats. I am as you can see still plugging away at the huge list on the left! I am determined to get some longer term projects finished and show some piccies! I have LOTS of new ideas and inspiration for projects and a rather large ever growing stash of yarns of all varieties to plough through!!!

On a link front, please do browse my *Links We Like* section, Sarah Barnard's writing blog has been altered a bit and a new link. Rainbow Crafts is a new store that I myself run selling my hand made stitch markers and so on!

The finished cats.....

The finished cats for my friends nieces. We shall be taking them with us when we go down to Plymouth for new year.

Jasmine's Cat

After completing the Margaret Sherry cat Purr-Pendicular for my friend, he asked if I could do 2 for his 2 nieces, different designs. So I hunted ebay and got 2 of her Calendar cats, September for Jasmine and January for Freyja. Here is the September Cat for Jasmine, it took me approximately 2 weeks to complete from start to finish. We will be giving them to his Nieces when we go to visit them for New year! The only editing I did to the design was to add on Jasmine's Name and Date of Birth, I just used some of the left over threads from the kit so it contrasted well with the design. Next to do is January's cat for Freyja!

First Cables!

I'm so pleased with how these are coming out! They are Evangeline long gloves, I'm using some wool I got from Krafty Koala (see links!), It'a aran weight and colour is called Midnight Lightening. I'm really thrilled with the effect the wool has, the white flash is so far spiralling round the glove! These will be fingerless gloves that go from hand to just before the elbow! I was dubious about making them as I have never knitted anything cabled but as you can see so far so good!

Feeling rather pleased with myself.....

Feeling really pleased with this sock! It's my 1st try, my friend gave me masses of help turning the heel but I managed it!!!! Just got to continue decreasing and finish the foot and my 1st sock is ready to go! The yarn is lovely, Opal 6 ply in *Parrot* colour way! Looking forward to completing this / these now!

Something Finished.....

At last some finished items! 2 Cross stitch offerings on this occasion.

Purr-Pendicular, a Cattitudes design by Margaret Sherry. I wasn't sure what I was going to do with this picture but a very good friend of mine has fallen in love with the cheeky cat so it is to be framed and given to him!

Tigger Bookmark, I made this with no idea who it was for or what not, it has gone down to Plymouth with a friend for his sister who is Tigger mad!