Searching for a good yarn,,,

I'm addicted to new projects - I was going to start another one!

So, I dived into my wool stash to hunt for the perfect yarn.... and guess what, to my suprise, there wasn't the 'right' yarn.

BUT.... whilst I had my head down & bum up in the cupboard, I found 3 more hidden stashes!

Question....Do I hide these from myself or does the evil fairy come in at night and do this?

I found this....

Yeah, good question - what is it?!?  It's a whole pile of lime green granny square centres with the odd bright colour thrown in, trust me - the photo does not show the injustice of how lime green the squares are! Some has been stitched into rows, was I going to make a tiny blanket? When did I start this? Why did I start this? Why lime green? The questions just go on & on...

And then I found this paperbag.

In it was a very cute stash of fabric squares, all rolled up. I remember buying them about 5 years ago, but why?

Why did I buy them? What was I going to make? How did they end up in the cupboard hidden in a bagful of yarn?

But wait, there's more..

Then there was this bag.... another pile of yarn that I had bought with specific projects & patterns in mind. But they never got made! Suprise, suprise! I think the reason why they were never made was because of that P word, you know.... pattern.  Me & patterns, ughh, I shudder at the thought!

So back to why I was in the cupboard... I found a cute 'pattern' for a crochet bag - it looks so easy, 4 triangles sewn together - easy peasy!  But no yarn to make them.
Check out the pattern on the Knitting Daily website

The bad news is that there is no yarn store near home or work - I would have to go out of my way to buy the yarn to start the new project.

The good news is there is no yarn store near home or work - I would have to go out of my way to buy the yarn to start the new project!!

Great books, Great Memories

Every school holidays, for me, was spent doing the same things..... reading & re-reading my favourite two books in the whole wide world!

I grew up in the country, in a small place called Myalla. The local town was 20 minute drive away and back then, you didn't drive to town unless you had to do the fortnightly grocery shopping!
So during school holidays, there wasn't much to do and I relied on the one constant thing that there was - reading. And delving into the bookshelf were the classics of all time: The 101 Dalmations and Wizard of Oz.

Now, these books weren't bought especially for me, they were hand-me-downs as was everything else - but I never cared about that, because as soon as I had opened them & started to read them - they were my world!

The Hundred & One Dalmations, looking at this book now as an adult with the worn front cover and sketched drawings on the inside - I see myself curled up on the bed reading it on a summers day.  Opening the front cover, I realise that it was printed in 1975, hey, it's a year younger than me! 

I loved the sketched drawings so much, here are a few below....

 

  And there has never been a more hated character than Cruella de Vil.

And you just can't go past the back cover without wanting a dalmation puppy of your very own!

 

The Wizard of Oz took me off to a fantasy place that I couldn't ever imagine existed.

 

This book actually belonged to my brother! I just checked the inside cover - it has his name plastered all over it - but he's not getting it back!  The book doesn't tell me when it was printed - I'll have to guess it was before 1974 going my brother's childish handwriting.

 

It is also full of adorable sketches too!

I also started to learn craft from my mother - she started a love that would last a life time.

I learnt to knit, crochet, spin, dye wool, macrame (well for me, a knotted mess), weaving and lots of new barbie doll dresses were made too!

From my dad, I learnt woodwork - many an hour spent in his shed carving timber into odd shapes!

What crafts did you learn in your childhood?

Spring cleaning - rings

This weekend I started the massive step of spring cleaning.

The first room I started in was the kitchen, I found a paperbag and it is was...

....a stack of rings from plastic containers....

Odd I know, but I was going to use them to make something with, just can't quite remember what though!

Do you have any ideas of what I can use them for? 

I think perhaps I was going to try to crochet around them and then loop them into some sort of chain??

Paid In Full

A couple of months ago, I joined the Pay It Forward movement... well, consider it Paid In Full.
People recieved a mish-mosh of some of my favourite things, I hope they liked them.There were a variety of things, everybody receiving something different. There were crochet flowers, necklaces, earrings, bangles, notebooklet and printed cards too.Did you get your PIF? Did you like it?

My Moo!

I finally received my Moo cards in the post - they only took 6 days to get to me, it just took me ages to order them!
I love them!I can't decide a favourite. They are a mix of my 2 favourite things - flowers & crafts...
They are bright and dark, almost delicious enough to eat!They came out so well, it's hard to believe that they're mine....all mine.......

Been printing

I recently spent a happy couple of hours taking over the lounge room printing cards.The only problem with printing in the lounge room, is that there is limited space to let them dry. That's where the couch comes in handy, it makes a good drying rack!And that is why I don't encourage visitors! It's not that I'm anti-social, it's just that I don't normally have any room for them!

Technology Withdrawal Symptoms

I'm suffering withdrawal symptoms of not having technology readily available to me.

Our laptop has crashed, it has been nearly a week without it and I am missing it terribly. I am missing it too much, I think I may be addicted to it.

My name is Rie and I am addicted to my laptop.