The work goes on....

With endless problems raising their head in the day job and all those other things that life throws in the way, crafting has unfortunately taken a bit of a back seat, but the creativity has never stopped, the work has still been continued even though its slowly but surely!
Firstly, ive still be knitting away in my spare moments and thankfully its something that i find very relaxing.
At the moment on my needles is a pink scarf, in a lace pattern. The only problem i have, as i'm knitting in the evenings in front of the television, is i'm getting distracted and keep forgetting which row of the pattern i'm on!

Susan has got up-to-date with completing the embellishments on my previous scarves. So my black fluffy scarf now has marabou feathers around the edges

The blue 'wave' scarf has blue/clear beading across the bottom waves to add a touch of sparkle and glamour.

And the big cable - small button scarf now has the colourful wooden buttons to embellish the cables.

I also have a new project on the go.  I had the desire to make a hanging, decorative piece, made up of crocheted birds. I have been learning on the go with this project as crochet is a new, and self taught skill. With the aid of youtube 'how to' videos ive learnt to do large circles and small triangles.

Ive brought out the 'knitting dolly' to knit the cord to go through the centre, i have the bells to go on the bottom, i just need to source something to make the tail feathers. This is a fun and quirky project for me and im hoping it will turn out how i envisaged.

All these items are up for sale on 'Folksy' , so check out the threads n shreds store now.....

Pink fluffy scarf...

So it's been a while, as I was away on holiday, sunning myself and then caught up in the tangle of work issues, and every day life - but have been able to do a bit of knitting on the side.

Its been a little tedious this one. Although straightforward to knit, as there were no fancy stitches used - the yarn spoke for itself

I did have to take care so that the ends did not get knitted in and did actually stick out for the " fluffy " effect! But it did seem to take ages, and I could not wait to get on with the next project...
The " pink fluffy scarf " is on Folksy to purchase...

For my next project I have chosen a dip dyed, lovely pink yarn that I purchased from ' Tiger'. This time I will use a lacy pattern, and will use larger sized needles to give a more open effect...