Doesn't time fly... Apologies for the radio silence over the last couple of months, I've been busy getting into the swing of a new job and working full time again which sadly has drastically cut both my time and energy for crafting and blogging.
Anyway, let's have a quick round up of what I have managed. The garden has done really well over the summer with lots of lovely weather, I'm going to enjoy the last of the sweetcorn tonight, my dahlias have been flowering non-stop, and I've got a sunflower heading towards 10 feet tall! No photos at the moment sadly, I'll try and get out this week for a few snaps.
No sewing unfortunately, although I'm looking forward to getting hold of 'Learn to Sew with Lauren' (of Sewing Bee season 1 fame) when the book is released next week. The trouble I have with any major sewing projects is I don't have anywhere permanent to have the sewing machine set up so I have to properly dedicate whole days at a time to working on something. At the moment with working all week and also a lot of family stuff encroaching on the weekends I haven't managed to fit anything in yet. I really fancy making a Mimi blouse from 'Love at First Stitch', must keep an eye out for some suitable fabric.
Knitting has still been ongoing; I've made two more teddies for my Nan's neighbours which are wrapped up and ready to go when the new baby arrives in the next couple of weeks, and I've been working on a V-neck cardigan in the red Sirdar Cotton DK I got in Cambridge a while ago. It's very slow going though, in the last month I've done the back and left front. Really noticeable how not having a couple of hours every day to knit has impacted on how quickly I get things done. Oh well, it will get there eventually, and I'll enjoy wearing it when it's done - I'm thinking this one is going to need some shiny gold buttons.
Does anyone else struggle to fit in crafty stuff around work? I'm not especially enjoying how little time I seem to have, after being unemployed for a while and having whole days to be creative, now having to get up to commute to London and being exhausted after long days I'm feeling a bit creatively frustrated. Mind you, I didn't help myself by buying a needle-felting kit in Hobbycraft the other week that is still sitting sealed up in the box...
Perhaps I ought to try for smaller projects that I can fit into shorter spaces of time. Am I allowed to start thinking about Christmas gifts yet? Either that or I need to start taking my knitting on the train...
