A Change to my Felt Prices

Unfortunately, a few months ago my supplier put up the price of the wool blend felt squares I sell in my shops. I'd been hoping to be able to "eat" the cost of the increase and keep my shop prices the same but having looked at my accounts I'm afraid that's not really going to be possible long term, so the prices of all my felt packs will be going up slightly.

But, I thought the least I could do was give you guys some advanced warning in case there's some felt you've been meaning to buy!

Prices will be going up in all my shops (in my main shop, and over on Etsy and Folksy) the week beginning 20th August, as follows:

10 Felt Squares will be £5.75 (currently £5.50)
20 Felt Squares will be £10.50 (currently £10)
30 Felt Squares will be £15.75 (currently £15)
40 Felt Squares will be £21.00 (currently £20)

Giant Rainbows of 65 squares will be £32.50 (currently £31)
And Mini Rainbows of 65 mini squares will be £10.50 (currently £10)

Postage rates will all stay the same. (Oh & prices in my DaWanda shop will be going up slightly too, I've just not had a chance yet to work out the exact prices in Euros)

P.S. my embroidery hoops will also be going up in price the same week due to rising wholesale prices, the 3inch hoops are currently sold out but I've still got some packs of the 4inch hoops available at the current prices.

50 Squares of (mostly) Grey

This weekend I have discovered that the Olympics is going to be quite bad for my productivity!

I am getting some work done from the sofa - replying to emails on my laptop, etc. - but honestly it's all just so distracting, especially when team GB are in a final (the gymnastics this afternoon was especially gripping). This is one of the perks & perils of being self-employed, I guess :)

It has helped me get (almost) caught up with my sky blanket knitting though, and I'm now just 6 days behind... but I've still got a lot of catching up to do when it comes to sewing the squares together. Once I get those 6 missing squares knitted I'll have a massive 50 squares to sew onto the blanket.

Here are the 44 I've finished so far...

...  most of the missing squares are grey ones. Over 30 of the last 50 squares have at least one strand of grey in them thanks to all the rainy, gloomy days we've been having this summer! They're not in date order in the photo as I've been storing them in a bag while I've been catching up, so they've got a bit muddled, but they'll all get sorted out when I come to start sewing as I've got all the colours recorded on a calendar for easy reference. Knitting is the perfect craft to do in front of the TV, so with any luck I'll be up to date by the end of the Olympics!

With an ongoing project like this it can be quite tricky to keep up the momentum and enthusiasm as the months go by. A lot of the excitement for me has come from seeing the blanket itself grow week by week, so having not added (sewn) any squares to it for so long has definitely made me feel a bit demotivated and has made me neglect the project a bit (though hurting my hand & not being able to knit for a bit hasn't helped either).

Hopefully that enthusiasm will come back again when I get sewing, but in the meantime I've been looking at photos of all the awesome sky scarves over on Ravelry for a bit of inspiration (if you're not on Ravelry, there are also lots of sky scarf pics on Flickr). I'm really looking forward to seeing how the blanket - which still looks like this - will look with those extra 50 squares added to it.

Colourful Secrets

I'm working on a couple of things I can't share at the moment - it's always so frustrating to have to keep stuff secret, but that's the way it goes sometimes. Oh well.

I can however share this snap of some of the supplies I'm using:

Lots of happiness-inducing colour!

Something New

At the weekend I went hunting through some old sketches looking for a bit of inspiration, and ended up sewing this...

... I'll let you know what it turns into!