weekly stills....

1. A new tapestry crochet washer I have started with the Cascade Ultra Pima, I am planning quite a few of these for Christmas pressies.

2+3+4. It is a very flowery time of year around here and I love it! My hyacinths are doing really well, and I am able to pick some to bring inside and still have lots out in the garden.  All these colourful beauties came from my garden.  Such a simple pleasure to pick a bunch of flowers for yourself, but one I look forward to all year!

5+6. These are a couple of shots of my stall at the NannaCool market on Saturday, I forgot to put my camera in, so these were taken on my phone, so they are a bit blurry, but I think you can get the idea.   We had a lovely day, it was great to chat to some crafty peeps and I was greatly encouraged by all the positive feedback for my stall set up and crochet stuff, everyone was so nice!  It was also lovely to meet some of the people who read this blog!  Hello everyone :)! Thanks for stopping by and having a chat, I still find it a bit strange to meet people in real life that read this, often it feels like I am just writing a little crafty diary to myself and I forget that real people in my community actually read it! Blogging is  kind of weird like that, it is produced in isolation but actually reaches across the world!  How fantastic!

7+8. Last week a lot of little crochet took place, I spent a fair amount of time on the couch surrounded by balls of wool and crochet flowers, I did manage to nearly fill my tin with flowers so I was happy with that! Also managed to sell a few at the market so it was all for a good cause.

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How was your week? 

What have you got planned for this one?  

I hope it is full of good stuff for you all! 

I have got some new yummy yarn in my shop to show you tomorrow, just got to take pictures and upload it.  And I think it is time for a giveaway this week, I have fallen behind in my monthly giveaways so time to catch up!

Talk soon! 

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More market preparation

Hello my crafty friends!  

It has been a very productive week around these parts, I have been having a last minute flurry of crafty activity before my market stall on Saturday.  I decided to make a sign for my stall out of wire and yarn.  It has turned out very (ahem) handmade looking, but I think I will just go with it, and embrace the imperfections! ( Who would have thought winding yarn around wire would be such a tricksy time consuming activity!!)

I am actually rather pleased with it, I wanted something spindly and naive and colourful,  I think this fits the bill quite well really, and I guess no one else will have one exactly the same.  I am not really a slick, sophisticated person, so I think my wonky writing sign suits me! 

 .....My lovely dad made me a pigeon hole shelf so I can display all my yummy yarn at the market, I gave it a paint in this gorgeous blue with some green highlights.  You can kind of see how my sign is going to hang over the shelves, although this is looking at it from the back...

.......this is the front ( sorry about the photo quality, this was taken with my phone, I am loving the 

lo-fi filter on Instagram at the moment, but it looks a bit blurry here) Still need to make one more pom pom for the first i.  Must not forget! 

.....I have been hooking up a heap of these 2 colour flowers for some little packs of crochet embellishments, even if they don't sell, they are fun to make and I can use 

them for my snail mail pen pals. 

I just love all the colours in these stacks! 

( So many gorgeous colours in the Cascade Ultra Pima cotton 

very hard to limit myself to a set palette)

.....and lastly I have made a few more tapestry crochet washcloths, and actually got the edging finished too! I'm on fire I tell you!! ;)

I have made other stuff too, but don't have photos to show you, I am sure I will take some shots at the market to show you all how it looks set up properly.  Then I promise I won't talk markets again for a while, you are all probably sick to death of hearing about it! 

If you are in the Southern Bayside suburbs of Melbourne at all on Saturday though, do pop into Nanna Cool Market and say hello!  It is being held at the Chelsea Activity Hub in Showers St, Chelsea, 10 -2pm!

I hope you have had a good week and found some time to unleash your creative mojo too!

Have a great day/night! 

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