2015 being transferred

Today's job is to transfer the posts from 2015 into the Pages part of this blog.  

I want to keep all my posts together here on this blog.

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Jacson's Shawl ~ the beginning of the Shawl-a-thon

I made an advent shawl!

I know it's not the right time of year!  

This was actually made back in December but I just haven't got round to photographing it and writing a little bit about it. So, here, at last, is my post about Jacson's Shawl

I often get a monthly yarn box from Rosie's Moments.  She dyes the most gorgeous coloured yarns and it is an absolute joy to open her delightful themed boxes.  Seriously - you should try them!  I also love that Rosie is down here in The West Country too.  Always good to support local indie-dyers.

knitting whilst surfing!

Knitting in the car whilst waiting for school to finish

We had a year long "Around the World in 80 Days" with the sock yarns relevant to the countries visited along the way by Phileas Fogg and other little extra treats relating to that particular country.  There has been Mother's Day boxes; Easter boxes; and lots more to tempt any yarn-loving person. 

At the moment Rosie is running boxes themed around Aesop's Fables.  It is great to re-learn those old fables and have yarn dyed to go with them, and of course the other little goodies like handmade soap; stitch markers; and more!  She also has a monthly box that has different yarn weights in each month - which is great as you can try out all those different thicknesses of yarns and again in such beautiful colours.  Oh and not forgetting a box that is themed Sweets around the World - so there is a naughty sweet treat, yarn dyed to go with that particular country and so on ... you get the idea ... they are rather addictive and have so much gorgeous yarns ....

Anyway, I diverse, one of Rosie's seasonal box was an Advent one which contained 24 mini skeins all wrapped up separately and numbered, one to be opened each day on the lead up to Christmas - a yarn-lover's advent calendar!  She also included a pattern named Jacson's First Christmas, which was a super shawl pattern using green and different colour minis in between - like a Christmas tree wrapped in tinsel! 

The only slight snag was that I wouldn't have chosen such a bright green - I would have had a dark green.  Rosie dyed several batches of different shades of green and it really was pot luck as to which green you'd receive.  I found it refreshing to work with a shade that is slightly out of my comfort zone and I love it!  It is all down to personal taste, after all, isn't it?

Isn't it pretty?

And it started off my little shawl-a-thon ... more on that soon...!

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Three months! And the task of copying stuff over

I am brimming with all the things I have made and really want to show you

 and tell you all about them, but I feel that I should also be copying over all the old posts from http://thecraftyphoenixlady.blogspot.co.uk/ so that all my ramblings are in one place! 

 Makes sense to me. 

 However it is a task and a half and is taking for-ev-er! I have just finished copying over my first year - 2014 - when I started my blog. I was pretty good that year and posted every month and sometimes several times a month... hmm ... my posting regularity has gone down considerably since then (which will make copying over the next few years much easier ...) but I do really need to get on top of posting on here regularly. 

So ... if you see me ... or don't hear anything from me ... please give me a little nudge to remind me to pop my creations on here and all the waffle that goes with it!

Oh and the three months ... well three months today my baby is getting married! My little girl (not so little now at 25 - but still my little girl) is getting wed. 

 Eeek!!! 

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Starting Over ...

I am having problems accessing my other blog http://thecraftyphoenixlady.blogspot.co.uk/ ... I can't post on it!  It has been driving me mad ... to the extent that I decided that I would start over with a new blog!  

I'm just hoping that this one works okay!

One of my first tasks will be trying to copy over the previous posts so that they are all in the same place.  So please bear with me and keep your fingers crossed that I manage this one okay!

I'll be back very soon ...

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