So, at the beginning of lockdown
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| 1 | I bought some beautiful yarn, and started knitting a freestyle wrap that worked out fine and kept me warm over the cold weeks. And today I ripped it down, balled the yarn and now it is ready to keep my fingers busy for as long as this damned business lasts. Funny how having a project on the go keeps us from killing passers by... Edited by oh_hunnihunni at 5:10 pm, Tue 12 Oct oh_hunnihunni - 2021-10-12 17:10:00 |
| 2 | Totally Understand oh_hunnihunni. I was secretley a little bit pleased that the rest home MrP is in cooked his crochet blanket. But he has it now. So I had to find something else to do to kee[p the fingers moving. Soo Its matching hot water bottle covers for me and the cat lol. popeye333 - 2021-10-12 18:08:00 |
| 3 | It was octopussies for me. Made some for the latest gbaby and then a, b, c, d .... wanted one so it kept me pretty busy. I am all tentacled out now though. Might do some more for scbu next time I am in the mood and hands feel ok to pick up a hook and wool again. maddie44 - 2021-10-12 18:16:00 |
| 4 | I'm trying to persuade a friend to do me a crocheted long vest jacket. Very eighties, but coming back. Just as all good stuff does... oh_hunnihunni - 2021-10-12 19:39:00 |
| 5 | maddie44 wrote:
I had to judge the best knitted toy at our local arts club and a member produced ta dah mum, dad and baby crocheted octopuses! I could not stop laughing and she just has to mention them and I start all over again. They were delightful. She also made reindeer in the same style. Edited by shanreagh at 8:50 pm, Tue 12 Oct shanreagh - 2021-10-12 20:50:00 |
| 6 | shanreagh wrote: One of the little girls i made them for makes her dad shake hands with all her toys - he made me promise to never make his kids an octopus again. maddie44 - 2021-10-12 21:03:00 |
| 7 | maddie44 wrote:
That's hilarious!! Has to shake eight 'hands' - poor daddy! yapper - 2021-10-12 22:03:00 |
| 8 | shame there is no 'like' button when you need it - love the shaking hands urbanrefugee54 - 2021-10-12 23:36:00 |
| 9 | yep, sewing, knitting, gardening, all that stuff has kept me sane over the last 18 months or so. It's having something useful to do, I think. I feel for those who have nothing like that. It must make lockdowns feel very long. kiwimade64 - 2021-10-13 07:09:00 |
| 10 | maddie44 wrote: Good old dad...love it. Edited by shanreagh at 12:54 pm, Wed 13 Oct shanreagh - 2021-10-13 12:53:00 |
| 11 | Normally I don’t really like having a stash of wool but these days I find it essential to have a bit stock piled just in case we can’t get more. Dyed 10 lots of wool yesterday so well ahead again. jayemtoo - 2021-10-13 13:40:00 |
| 12 | I've started a cardi for myself. WFH during the day but get a couple of hours in the evening most nights, don't actually knit more than a dozen rows before the wrist complains. But eventually it will get finished maybe once we are out of this lockdown and before the next one. Then when I see how many balls it took, may have a clearout of the stash where I don't have enough to make another one. voyager4 - 2021-10-13 14:27:00 |
| 13 | Well, finished a rather lovely scarf this morning, and have started on the bottom corner of a triangle wrap. It was chilly in here today, so the wrap I made last winter was very useful, light and warm, and just the right size to cover cockles as well as shoulders. That lovely thing made me decide another one would be useful. I do like it when a Keep Busy project actually turns out to be useful! Being a very 'ordinary' knitter as my Gran termed it, it doesn't happen that often! But I do love gorgeous hand dyed yarns... Edited by oh_hunnihunni at 8:47 pm, Wed 13 Oct oh_hunnihunni - 2021-10-13 20:47:00 |
| 14 | Alas I have wasted too much time on social media - just love the joke meme's, and am pretty sure that some have been shared [many] years before as joke emails :) urbanrefugee54 - 2021-10-14 11:29:00 |
| 15 | Awwwww ..squishy wool love ! Up there with chocolate , books , flowers good friends and pets for comfort and comfortable creative company …what’s not to love the rhythm of click clacking sticks ! jbsouthland - 2021-10-15 09:35:00 |
| 16 | oh_hunnihunni wrote:
Cockles?? Don't mean mean cankles?? lol crafters_corner - 2021-10-15 12:57:00 |
| 17 | I've just started back into doing my crafting. Started making some Christmas tags to give to my SIL to use. In the process, broke my 1" circular punch. I've also started making an altered book (a book for journalling in, that has loads of lovely pockets with pretty papers, and lots of embellishments and ephemera. crafters_corner - 2021-10-15 13:01:00 |
| 18 | Hmmmm, I have one of those somewhere. A circle punch that is. Probably in The Cupboard. That one I daren't open because of the thought of all the money I spend on the stuff inside!! And the fact I haven't used any of it for an awful long time... As for altered books - cheat! Gerroff ya bum CC and make your own from scratch. I have these books that'll show you how... In The Cupboard. oh_hunnihunni - 2021-10-15 13:24:00 |
| 19 | I have one of those cupboards. Commonly referred to as 'the dining room'. I like my well spent pension pocket money right where I can see it. My husband once told me that if I buy any more crafts, he will leave me. Gotta say that I miss him every Sunday, when it's time to put the rubbish out. :-)) An altered book is just a plain old op shop book, that is tarted up to look beautiful. Nothing cheap about that, and created right from scratch, with my own arthritic fingers. So there!!! I'm off now to get the 'just a wee prick' covid jab crafters_corner - 2021-10-15 14:49:00 |
| 20 | Ha! Teach ya granny to suck eggs kid. I was altering books back in the eighties. Theirs not mine. Then I did a workshop with Allie Snow and started making my own. Dreadful obsession it turned out to be, I now have a shelf of the damned things. And they are all weird... oh_hunnihunni - 2021-10-15 14:55:00 |
| 21 | Never heard of altered books, had to look it up. vashti - 2021-10-19 18:55:00 |
