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My ‘to do’ list!

• 29 June 2009 3:29 am

The aim of this blog is to be a sort of online journal of my work, so people who are interested in what I do can see what i’m up to, and how I actually work, and it’ll be good for me to keep a record, rather than all the little slips of paper and several notebooks I have lying around…

So, what am i working on at the minute, well firstly, I bought some gorgeous wool the other day, that is highly varigated, so almost looks like farisle,

this is a detail of a scarf worked in it, it is beautifully soft and the colours a gorgeous range of icelandic blues, greens and greys.  I want to try a patchwork scarf, blocks of colours, in a freeform style, and I think this would be the perfect base.  The corner of a granny square peeking in the photo is from a swap i’m doing, over on spans-stitchin blog, which is my first one so am very excited!  However, the colour also goes well with the scarf so I think i’ll incorporate some of it in the patchwork.

Next on the agenda is this find from a charity shop, the handles are lovely, so i’m looking for a dense pattern to work for a bag, almost aran style, as the handles lend themselves to something quite structured, I can’t decide between a traditional aran wool in a cream, or that gorgeous wool above, so its sample time first I think.

Finally, i’ve been doing a lot with my yarn jewellery ideas, but I think I need to do some more wire jewellery, I want to try some patterns with the wire, like traditional edgings, and see how that goes.  I’ve also got this ‘find’ that I want to do something with – but i’m not sure yet what!

So that is a little of what I am supposed to be doing, as opposed to chatting on here, and now it’s down in print, I suppose I better get on!

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