Stitching Yarns & Crafty Jules

It’s been a while again. There just doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day to do everything I want to do at the moment! I’m not a big fan of Christmas, and I really hate going in shops that sells Christmas gifts and have trees up early. But I do think that when you are crafting things, there can be an exception. Last year I mad 170 ish ginger decorations in about 2 months. I don’t want to be…

It’s been about 18 months since I last posted and lots of things have happened since. I’ve moved on a little from the knitting pouches I made at the end of 2015, I’ve also had 2 other sewing machines since then! I decided I’d like to try more embroidery designs for a start, so in January 2016, I bought a Brother Innov-is 1250. I tried the embroidery once, couldn’t work it out, so just used it as…

5 Weeks, 40 bags

Its been just over a month since I last posted anything, but its been a busy month! First of all, the 5-7 days in hospital for dad after his op turned into nearly 3 weeks.  Unfortunately he developed a chest infection and passed out a few times when he was coughing so suffered a few head injuries, and ended up staying in longer.  He’s been home for 3 weeks already and is looking better although…

I’m officially now on holiday from work for a week. I say officially, but I’m sure I’ll get a call or text message, probably from tomorrow.  I had planned to get lots done craft wise, plus stuff around the house and maybe a trip to the seaside one day so the dogs could have a run on the beach. But all that changed on Wednesday when my dad found out 5 months after his heart attack, he’d got a date…

In January, I can’t believe it’s that long ago, I wrote about a sock I started. The pattern is Ribbed For Your Pleasure by British Bea Knits. Of course I’ve had lots of distractions, mainly sewing ones, and just picked them up every now and again. I finished the first one a while ago, but the 2nd one was dragging, like they do sometimes.because I’ve not been very well all week and not done any…

This week I was lucky enough to only work 3 days. I decided to take Thursday and Friday off using overtime I’d built up over the last few weeks. We hadn’t got much planned. We did want to change an outside light, which we managed on Thursday, and take up some decking, but we didn’t manage that bit. Friday I had planned to meet a friend for dinner. We ended up going to Frankie & Benny’s. It’s not…

Last week brought new things craft wise and music wise. First of all, sewing. I’ve been looking at Overlockers for a few weeks. Reading reviews, watching videos, getting people’s opinions on craft groups etc.  Like everything, you can spend as little or as much as you like really.  I didn’t want to spend a fortune, they seemed to start from just under £200 and some over £1000. The model which…

Just before I was asked to do the craft fair, I downloaded 2 patterns from Michelle Patterns website. I think I found the link on Pintrest. I got the Pleated Wristlet and Pocket Clutch downloads. Yesterday, I attempted the pocket clutch pouch. I’ve never done a pattern from printing a template out before, although I have downloaded plenty, just not printed them. So there was a bit of head…

One of the reasons I wanted a sewing machine last year was so I could do some quilting.  Up until yesterday I’d never tried it, but I found a bit of fabric, and came up with these     Not perfect, but a start and something I can see I’ll like doing. I just cut 2 4.5″ inch squares out of the fabric and fleece, sewed with right sides together, turned them the right way out and sewed round them a…

And it All Ended Happily Ever After

The craft fair went better than I thought it would today :-) It was only a few minutes drive from where we live. We got there about 9.30 for a 10am start. There were already 3 or 4 stalls setting up when we got there but we got in a nice position. It didn’t take that long to get set up really, we were ready just before 10 and had a steady stream of people running through over the 4 hours. The…