Another step . . .

Today, I finally sat down and brought some of the elements of my recent purchases together.

In anticipation of selling something in the not too distant future I've ordered, and received, burgundy tissue paper, brown paper bags, a rubber stamp, and a maroon ink pad.  My arms are now aching from stamping 100 bags!!

Let me know what you think:

Woo Hoo - it begins!

The new yarns to fill the order for yellow scarves arrived yesterday evening.  I took them to a school PTA meeting and started on one of them.  Managed, by dint of us ladies talking for ages, and some committed knitting, to get one of the scarves done during the meeting.  It's a new yarn that I haven't used before - it's got lots of lovely tiny, tiny sequins along the edge that just catch the light in such a lovely sparkly way:

The second scarf was the other loopy one, with a sparkly silver edge:

And, finally, I finished the ruffle version - very soft, with a silver edge:

So excited!! Will be posting one, two or all of them out on Monday, depending on what my friend wants.  Now, I have plenty of other colours to knit up  . . .  busy hands!

I will, at some point, post up the pictures of the other projects that I have going on in the background . . . the amount of UFO's I have hanging around is getting a little scary!

So many things to try!

Another busy day.  Had my quilting course today.  Wow, so many new techniques to try!

This is my second course, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.  On the first course I did, I learnt how to create a 'monkey wrench' block (I think this block might be known differently elsewhere).  It was all hand stitched, and an absolute pleasure to make :

I gave this to my Mum for her birthday - must say that I'm pretty pleased with it.

On the current course, we're learning how to create a Medallion quilt, with possibly a Christmas theme.  Mine is going to be a snow covered house, on a dark starry night, with golden windows.  Will take some pictures tomorrow, when I get the camera working again.

With regards to my scarves, I've taken a second order today, for the dove grey one.  It is very lovely, with silvery threads running through it, and I'm so glad someone else likes it too:

Things are picking up

Biting the bullet, I've been pushing myself at my FB friends, (almost) shamefully promoting myself.  It feels a bit awkward, but I suppose if I'm ever to get anywhere then I have to start somewhere.

Thing is, it's already had a pretty good result.  One of my friends from nursing college, so many moons ago that I've lost count, got in contact to ask for a scarf for his girlfriend.  Thing is, her favourite colour is yellow, which isn't a colour that I've got.  It's necessitated the buying of another bulk of yarn, but has found me another fab supplier on ebay with some lovely new yarns to knit up into more scrumptious scarves.

It's forcing me to consider things such as how to deal with distance selling (invoicing, payments, postage etc), so my mind is boggling with such things as Paypal Business accounts, and creating a website (scary!).

More pictures to follow tomorrow . . .

I said I would, and so I did!

Finally got round to taking pictures of my scarves, and posting them to my FB page for Pretty Little Needful Things - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pretty-Little-Needful-Things/440770519296382 (if you have the time and inclination, could you 'like' my page please?  Many Thanks!)

Am going to share some of them here as I think some of these scarves are truly lovely (well, I would, wouldn't I?!)

Let me know what you think of the different styles.  I'm struggling not to wear them all myself!

Getting back to it

Well, it's been a while - kind of took a break during the summer months to concentrate on the kids, and trying to be a good mum.

However, September is long past, and so are any reasons for not getting my backside into gear and starting to push myself a little more.  This is in part inspired by helping a good friend of mine get her FB page set up to promote herself - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sew-Tweet-Crafts/175774085880474

She now has more likes than me!!  However, I've been dragging my heels for no good reason, so tomorrow, hopefully, I shall be taking more attractive pictures of my scarves, and will update the FB page with more scarves - I got some lovely new yarns in and they are knitting up to create some beautiful scarves.  It's hard not to keep them all for myself!