Spiders in my garden....

This past week has been a very busy week, its felt a bit stressful at times as I'm trying to pack too much in but with a pending trip to my homeland - Scotland - I felt I had to get a lot of things sorted....so, I've knitted for Etsy and I'm now thinking about my next project for it.....

I've completed my next project for Ravelry and I think its pretty fab....watch this space for instructions...

I did my first skirt workshop last weekend which I really enjoyed......

   

I had my first workshop booking via my blog ... Yay!.....and received some lovely cabbage flowers from friends who came for dinner a couple of sundays ago ....

 and I've been given a vintage Bernina by a friend: she's soooooo good to me....

and there's been lots of spiders in my garden!!!

and I really like spiders....

Happy Halloween!

Fairislerona knits for Etsy...

Today has been a stinker of a day - weatherwise - after glorious weather on Sunday : wall to wall sunshine and really warm, today it has rained all day and our village has been fog bound.  But its days like this that I absolutely love - because I don't feel bad getting on with my own 'crafting'.  
I think its about time a told you a bit about my own design work that I do.....I have a part time job that keeps things financially afloat but when I'm not working and I get the opportunity I like to do my own knitwear design and I do hand knitting and machine knitting.  I LOVE my knitting machine, I think its about 40 years old and I bought it second hand 20 years ago - from a knitting shop in Glasgow and its a Knitmaster. I love using machinery to create: I had the same feeling when I used to weave at College.

So, this is a picture of my trusty knitting machine in my 'creative space' of our house....

And this is the rest of my little room which is in a very tidy state in this photo - but is generally a designers mess....but I'm fortunate that I can close the door and not look at it!  There is nothing that I like better than looking out at the rain, listening to Radcliffe and Maconie on 6 music in the afternoon and doing a bit of designing....BLISS!

At the moment I am working on items for my Etsy shop and they are Fair Isle items made of Shetland yarn.  I have made some cushions so far.....

And some Kindle sweaters......

So if your thinking Fairisle this winter check my Etsy site out....