My Favourite Things...

Yarn bowl

Fabric bowl

Tags with crochet scallop edge

Lace and jute twine. I love natural items to work with.

Treasured needle holder

Favourite crochet hook

Well here goes....

I've been sitting on the sidelines too long.. I couldn't think of anything to blog about, but now I've had a while to think (quite a while actually...) I thought I would start off just by showing you a few of my favourite things.

Now, the photo above the above sentence (if that makes sense..) was supposed to come out above this sentence, so bear with me in this blogging lark, I'm bound to make a few mistakes :) I'm going to pop on another photo and see where that comes out!?

Oh, I see, the writing goes down and the photo's go up ! :) I'll have to see how it comes out when I press the 'publish post' button.

Anyway, back to my 'favourite things'.... I love crocheting I've been doing it for a couple of years now. I love to crochet with big hooks, and with lots of different types of yarn at once, and with rag strips which takes aaaagggggeeeessss to cut up but is well worth the effort. One of my favourite things is my homemade size 12mm crochet hook. I didn't know that I could also 'wittle' wood until I couldn't find a size 12mm hook anywhere to buy in the u.k., so I went to my local charity shop and bought a wooden size 12mm knitting needle, cut it in half with a pair of secataurs (spelling?) and then used a craft knife and sandpaper to make a hook! And it's my favorite one. It's the big one in the 3rd photo above next to the gold one.

Next I also love sewing and making thins like cushions and toys. I also love crocheting my own little 'lacy' bits like edgings and buttons for my cushions. I have got shops on Etsy, DaWanda, Folksy, Misi, and Coriandr, but as yet (the same with blogging) have lacked the get up and go to actually list anything!! lol, but now I've actually got round to blogging, I might get round to listing something in one of them!

Another of my favorite things is my lovely needle holder made by my youngest daughter who was ten when she made it. Actually it's not just one of my favourite things, it's one of my treasured possessions, and the two little buttons on the heart are part of my mothers day present from her this year (they were 85p and £1.05 bless her) which I obviously couldn't part with in any thing I made, so I sewed them on to the case.

All the other pictures are just things I've made or like.

Now, I'm not very 'technical', and have no idea how to add links or put things at the side of my blog, so feel free to send me any advice or ideas as they will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks for reading my first blog.. I'd love and welcome any comments .....