October Crafting

I'm still in the process of moving house, so things have been a bit quiet on the crafty front this month - not least because most of my craft supplies are packed up in boxes.

I have been doing a little bit of knitting.... well, unravelling and re-knitting!

My mum started knitting this scarf (from some yarn which my sister bought when she briefly attempted to take up knitting) but she unfortunately has had to give up knitting due to problems with her joints, so she asked me to finish it. Our tension is so different that I couldn't just pick up where she left off, and it turned into one of those jobs you keep meaning to do but never get round to, sitting in my knitting stash for many months.

I finally unravelled it a few weeks ago and have been knitting it gradually in the evenings while watching TV. The yarn is lovely and soft and cosy, and the simple rib knit is a perfect switch-off-your-brain soothing project.

I've also been making some festive thankyou cards to send with my shop orders, using the cute mini snowflake stamps I bought from MUJI last year. I've actually run out of my normal thankyou notes at the moment, so I've had to break into the snowflake ones already... well, it's almost winter, right?

In other news, my shop got a nice little mention in CrossStitcher magazine this month:

(Unfortunately there was a bit of a mix-up about my prices... the Goldfinch Brooch is £15, but the 10 felt squares are £5.50 not £2.99 and the 6 mini embroidery hoops are £8 not £5.50)

I've never bought a cross stitch magazine before, but I am totally in love with this one!

It has even inspired me to get my pad of graph paper out and start designing a little something stitchy of my own... but pics of that will have to wait for another day :)