I will be a better blogger

 I'm determined to be a better blogger this year than I was towards the end of last year, both here and on harrogate craftwork group, and so far I'm managing it, although I admit that it is still early in the year. Here's my crochet blanket, it's definitely growing, I've done quite a chunk since last week so I'm quite proud of that. This is intended as a gift so I'm working hard.

Secondly Dragon Rider is slowing growing, although slowly is the operative phrase. I'm on holiday the last week in February, and I'm determined to be working on A Stitch in Time that week, which means that I've got three weeks to finish this page, and also the page that I was working on Heroes and Heroines. I suspect that I'm being a little optimistic, I usually am, but it's always fun to have something to aim for. This is a bit of a boring page if I'm honest, which isn't really helping. It's all green and brown, and there isn't really anything happening in it.

Needle and hook

I hoped to get loads of stitching done this week, and I've managed precisely none. However, I'm hoping to finally get needle and thread out this week, house stuff does keep getting in the way though. In the mean time I have managed a few more rows on the blanket, although I'm aware that it doesn't make for the most exciting photo updates.

Crochet and Shoes

Hello my dears, how are you? I have an admission to make... I haven't stitched this week and *whispers* I haven't missed it. I'm a little obsessed with my crochet and so that's what's been taking up all my time. I've done six stripes in the last week which is loads, I've more than doubled it, so proud of myself, starting to believe in the blanket (rather that suspecting that it might end up as a scarf). So much so I've started to debate what I'm going to do with the finish. Originally it was going to be for me but, true to form I've got 3-4 other blankets in various stages on planning and kitting and I have to admit that this is my least favourite colour scheme of all of them, so I might gift this to someone else, at the moment I'm debating inflicting it on my loving mother or Grandad. Possibly more of a mum colour scheme, but her birthday is in February and I'm not convinced I can hit that, so my Grandad's birthday is more realistic, but at the current speed, who knows.

Secondly, this is how I've spent my evening. My first ever attempt at comic book shoes, they're not perfect, but I'm certainly quite proud of them. I found quite an annoying tutorial on youtube to give me a vague idea of what I was doing (and quite a lot of anger to vent at the presenter. She'd obviously no interest in the comic book style other than because it was very 'on trend' at the moment, but my main problem is that she had no idea what she was doing. Having done something there was a quick cut and she was suddenly explaining how she'd just been told that she was doing it wrong, and this was how she was meant to be doing it). Anyway, I quite enjoyed it, it wasn't as time consuming or as messy as I expected. I'm not saying I didn't end up covered in Mod Podge, but I was covered in a lot less of it than I was expecting, and it used a lot less paper than I was expecting so I've got loads left, enough to do a second set, possibly even a third, and that's nothing to how much Mod Podge I've got left, I'm currently looking around my flat trying to work out what else I could use it on!

Hopefully I'll have some actual stitching to show next week, I do intend to. Happy stitching all!

Hello blanket

I realised that it was a long time since I updated on my blanket, although it's also a while since I've had much time to work on it. However I've had the time to get back to it again and am loving it. I did all of the light green, finished the pink and started the dark green yesterday, so all in all it went well. 

And secondly, Heroes and Heroines appears as my HAED challenge on the Supersized page, I haven't managed much, but I have managed my 400 stitches, in fact I think this is about 800 (although once again I feel like 800 should look like more).