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I am by day an assistant developer for a software company and by night and the weekends an increasingly craft and hobby obsessed maniac. This here blog will be my portal for sharing the failures and triumphs in these hobbies whenever I remember to snap a photo

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Crafting Round Up

Demeter

It has been a while since I last posted but that doesn’t mean my hands have been idle, for one I’ve been working on a couple of super secret gift projects but I should be able to reveal all in another month or so, I’ve also been busy trying to crochet hundreds of motifs to make . . . → Read More: Crafting Round Up

My Monique Dress

monique dress

I can’t believe I’m sharing this project with you, I had thought I quite liked the outcome but this was the best photo I could find of me in it and I’m now thinking it’s awful and all wrong for me.  (I know it’s a bit rumpled, it was ironed before I put it on but . . . → Read More: My Monique Dress

Crochet Crazy

this yarn was a gift from South America and will definitely get made into a cushion cover

Wow it’s been quite some time since my last post!  I have been very lazy about photographing projects I guess as well as working on a couple of top secret projects that are taking some time to complete.

Here is some stuff that I can show you.  In an attempt to cut down on my spending on . . . → Read More: Crochet Crazy

Not so ‘Flamingo’ Flamingo Capelet

flamingo capelet

Hardly seems worth posting a picture of this as I made it in black and you can’t pick out the details in the photo but I finished knitting this piece and I’m quite pleased with it so I thought I’d share.

ok yeah I know you can't see a lot of detail in the black, but . . . → Read More: Not so ‘Flamingo’ Flamingo Capelet

Christmas Baking

tiny christmas cake

I have been a bit slow putting these pictures up but I have been away from my computer for the break . Here are the pictures of 2011′s Christmas cakes and a rather terrible photo of some other Christmas treats I made for gifts.

Ho Ho Ho

This tiny Christmas Cake was made for my . . . → Read More: Christmas Baking

Christmas Crafty Gifts 2011

collection of home made gifts

ok so most crafter’s blogs go a bit on the quiet side in the run up to Christmas for fear of spoilers, but now that Christmas has come and gone and we have started the new year I can finally share the gifts I managed to make this year!

The first selection of gifts I made

In . . . → Read More: Christmas Crafty Gifts 2011

Getting into the Festive Spirit

Ok, so I know it’s only the 1st December, but seeing as all of my relatives already have their Christmas trees up and I’m not allowed (I seem to have somehow ended up living with Scrooge) I am making a stand and putting on display the first of my Christmas decorations that I have managed to . . . → Read More: Getting into the Festive Spirit

Cute Kitten Coasters

Kitty Coasters

I made these embroidered kitten coasters as a birthday present. October has been a busy month birthday wise! Each of the designs are from Urban Threads. I like to think of them as a series expressing 4 of the 9 lives of a cat, maybe I shall make a few more to make . . . → Read More: Cute Kitten Coasters

Birthday Baking

strawberry and elderflower cake

Last week was my other half’s mum’s birthday, it was a big one and as well as celebrating on the day, there was a bit of a party at the weekend. As we all know, I like any excuse to make cake so here’s a round up of what I made last week in contribution to . . . → Read More: Birthday Baking

Happy Birthday!

Rail Fence cushion

Finally able to post about this project, a birthday gift for a friend which has now been delivered and opened, so no need to keep quiet! It’s a bit of a chaotic rail fence patchwork cushion, you may have seen one I made before, but this time I took a bit of a gamble on . . . → Read More: Happy Birthday!