Crocheted cable snood, I hate the word snood, it sounds well, silly, but there we are, all-in-one-neckwarmer doesn’t sound much better either really

I’ve been wanting to use this gorgeous cocoshell button for a while and I think it goes quite well with the chunky aran

This is my favourite, you can wear it so many different ways with all those gorgeous loops, I’ve got one lined up for me, well, its on the ‘pile’…

And another snood, light and lacey

Again, please let me know what you think, beavering away in my room upstairs you can sometimes become apart from everything and have no idea whats going on in the real world!

update: I’m also having a sale in my folksy shop right now so have a peek for some Christmas gift ideas!

We have ’scarf with pockets’, gorgeously chunky, warm and perfect for those with cold hands like me (just need to create one that goes down to my feet and I’m sorted)

The Wrap Scarf, depending on how you wear it

there are many more examples, I won’t bore you!

and some new cable fingerless gloves too, perfect for driving and shopping as you don’t have to take them off!

More bits in my shops, please look and let me know what you think!

Jane x

Ignoring my stash busting 2010 promise (its only the second time – honest, and I have good reason too!) I mean, I can’t create a whole new range from my poor selection of odd balls of acrylic can I?

So, I’ve bought some gorgeous aran, among other gorgeous wool that I’ll show you soon, and have been playing with some new ideas for scarflettes, cowls and gloves.  They were quite a good seller last winter so I wanted to improve on my designs a bit more.

Its still in the early stages, (2 sport mad boys off school FOREVER are not conducive to creativity of the crochet sort) but I am really pleased with how its going so far, what do you think?

I’m working on a couple of different designs and I need to get a friend round so I can photograph her wearing them, not me twisting my arm in the mirror – but hopefully they should be in my shops in around a month!

I hope to get that sorted at the weekend, absolutely EVERYTHING crossed and every possible good vibe you could send this way will be desperately needed!

In between dipping my toes into code, I have been doing some crochet.  I have a craft fair at Brackla in Bridgend next weekend so need to build up my stock.

I’ve been playing with the flower design for the scarflettes and I really like the ruffly aspect to them

And found a nice way to use up some old buttons too.

Well, thats all for now folks, if I don’t delete everything this weekend I’ll see you next week with some new Ideas I’ve been working on with the curtain rings.

New year resolution lists really wind me up, who actually Carry’s them on beyond February?  If I’m being honest its the idea that you have to do it – everyone else is.  WHAT THE POINT!!!

Having said that I have a list that happens to correspond the the chiming of the new year, purely because I’ve been mad busy making stuff for Christmas and that rush has finished, I now have time.  That’s my reasoning and I’m sticking to it!

So, I really want to sort out my website.  I’ve only had a couple of sales through it, they all come from Folksy, so I think i’m going to remove that bit.  I also want to make it more atractive.  Having said all this I have NO idea how to actually do all this, a friend set it up and I can’t ask them again, so make the most of it before I crash everything.

I also struggle with the light taking photos, our house is a long narrow terraced house with absolutely no natural light, well, not much.  So i’m going to figure out some sort of light box – sounds good – again have no idea – watch this well light space!

Finally I’m not the most organised, I have bits of paper everywhere with ideas, patterns, notes, drawings, receipts.  So I have started already.  I bought a couple of books yesterday and spent a happy hour cutting and sticking with the kids (so it was justified)

Ideas book

Patterns book

see what I did there…there’s no flys on me I tell you!

And just to show I’m still crocheting, a pair of funky handwarmers for me.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

I’ve been a bit busy with the hook again, this time a number 4,  starting my 2010 challange early using up odd balls of wool I have in my now depleating stash.  Yay me!

We went away at the beginning of the week, we’d booked a cottage as a suprise for my dads 60th, it was wonderful, near Leighton Buzzard, on the edge of the Grand Union Canal, we had snow and sun and a brilliant pub in walking distance – what more could a girl, or her wonderful dad want!  While there my mum showed me some fingerless gloves she’d done, from a pattern.  They were gorgeous and it got my little brain thinking I could do that – but better obviously!  So, after playing with my number 4 and some trebles, here are the results, now in my folksy shop for £20 a set, bargain for Christmas I say!