More scarves!
I’ve been playing around with the design I did last year for my scarflettes and have come up with some different ones. I wanted them to be a bit more fancy, that you could wear as an accessory in its own right, not just under a coat. I also wanted to incorporate a bit of cable, which I’m still loving (did you notice on my gloves yesterday!) as well as a bit of lace too.
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!
Gorgeous scarves!
I’ve been busy this past couple of weeks finally getting round to photographing and listing a load of new scarves and neckwarmers I’ve been creating. For someone who dislikes intently having her photograph taken its been a painful period! There have been more pictures taken of me over the last two weekends than in the past 10 years. Hopefully people viewing my folksy shop and etsy shop will be able to see beyond the grinning/miserable looking idiot to see the glorious scarves – heres hoping…
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
A sneaky peek at my new Winter 2010 Collection
You may have guessed from previous posts that I am loving crochet cable at the minute, it is so effective and just plain gorgeous!
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!
Still tinkering…and crocheting!
What do you think so far then? I have to say I’m mega impressed with my ability, it did take lots of staring at the screen, copious amounts of shouting at it, a wide range of colourful language and a little bit of wine and some pointers from spoiltcatover on crafteroo – but I think its getting there. I want to try and get a slide show on the right hand side linked to my Folksy shop flashing up images of what I do, otherwise at the minute it just looks like you’ve stumbled upon some random crochet rantings!
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 Ideas
5th December 09
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!
