In the Making...

I’m very sorry for the radio silence over the summer but my workload was very high and something had to give. Unfortunately for you guys, it was the blog. I’m going to try and get back into the groove of blogging. I want to try and blog weekly like I’ve done for the past few years but have a feeling that it may not happen as often as I like. I’ve done lots of knitting and even a bit of crochet. The camera has been out lots and I’ve been sharing a few bits on Instagram . I’m @hardybarn on there and please follow me, if you’d like to. I meant to do this blog last week but there was a bit of procastinating going on. Some friends and I hired a cottage near Skipton for Yarndale weekend. I must say it was rather fab having a knitting weekend. Yarndale was as good as ever. The sun was shining and I’ve been saving up all year, so I had plenty of pennies to spend. There was too much fun and chatting going on for me to remember to take photos, but here’s my haul. I bought ...

After making this mug for when I'm at ceramics and enjoying it so much; I thought I'd make another for when I'm at A Good Yarn . We all had a lovely trip to Yarndale , so I've used the wonderful sheep logo as my inspiration. There's a sheep on both sides. The biggest challenge was to try and match the colours because they are different before they are fired, compared to the finished result. Not exact but I'm very happy with it. Of course, I have how I like my coffee on the mug. Here it is, just in case you want to make me a coffee! A little "funny" that I made this week, my version of a heavily sealed envelope.

Yarndale....wow! I had a fantastic day. A bus load of us from  A Good Yarn went on Sunday and it was amazing. First of all, I booked to do a workshop with Amy Singer , aka the editor of Knitty. The workshop was Making the Next Monkey and for anyone who is a designer or a fledgling like me, then it is fantastic. I learnt lots and lots, plus Amy was wonderful. My head was buzzing with ideas all the way home. Even though, most of my time there was taken up by the workshop, I did managed a bit of time to supplement my stash. I bought Ply magazine , which had some gorgeous patterns in. Haven't got around to reading it yet, but looking forward to it. There must be tons of photos of the bunting at Yarndale going around, but there were hundreds of them and the effect en masse was just incredible. Far more incredible in real life, compared to the photos. Mostly, I bought Garnstudio Drops , 4 balls of Alpaca (in 2 shades of green and 2 balls of cream) and 2 balls ...