bunting butt

i officially have bunting orders coming out of my butt now!

last night was the first time since the late 80s/early 90s that i've fallen asleep crocheting an order. and last time it happened i had to employ a couple crocheters to help me...one of which grew up to be the beautiful model catalina.

and i just took an order for another 12 today...from my lovely gerard of iknit for camp bestival.

(which i may just be persuaded to attend)

but before that - i am off to sonisphere!!!

upcoming int'l crochet day?

so evidently september 12th is international crochet day - who knew? i wonder how these things actually get decided...like who is the uber hooker in charge of this...or was it a company that promoted it to sell their wares? but no, a bit of google-fu unearths the 'fact' that it was started over on the crochetville forums by jimbo...woe, this internet shit does work!

well, as i've obviously missed it every other year - i'll have to make up for it this year by doing exactly what i was planning on doing anyway...crocheting topless on the beach in ibiza! yup = i'm back on playa d'en bossa from the 9th and sooo looking forward to ten fucking days of sun, crochet, cocktails, and dancing my ass off! big big thanks to my current employer - hyper - for taking 25 of us there for a long weekend - then allowing me the days off to stay on for another week!

i can't wait! i've got a really close friend there - neil of inkadelic tattoo - who means so much to me. he really dragged me out of a shit low period in my life last year when i was there with him. i was deeply depressed by the cancellation of my engagement to assface...neil drowned me in red wine, told me to grow up and not give a fuck - and a week later i met my current blondeboy and life has been amazing ever since.

but uh-oh. last year i crocheted a lovely dog bone for neil's doggie scratch - and i've not made a damn thing in ages...hate to show up empty handed but i may have to!

i'm soo behind on all my projects - and just realised that hallowe'en is looming on the horizon and i want to make lots of creepy presents for then too.

so latest to do list is:
freeform project - sooo behind
key lime pie slice for annmarie - um, needs to be done tomoro!
celestial star for ravelry friend - soon
pumpkins and bats and spiders and other creepy goodness - hmmm...i have time.
baby blanket for my cousin peewee's baby - before oct 20th!
ibiza beach project - sort now.

damn i really should go offline and get started...bye. x

holiday time

well tis a bank holiday weekend and it's been all work work work and no play play play or even hook hook hook...am so looking forward to just getting on the beach in ibiza and crocheting and tanning for hours and hours!

absinthe dawning

stayed up late late late last night, enjoying the absinthe that my sista elektra brought back from prague...and crocheting! thought i should practise my bullion stitch, the only hook i could reach was a 1.25mm with some blue pretty cotton with a nice sheen (makes me thing of martin and charlie, lol) and tried. of course at 3am and fueled by the green fairy - oh and a red fairy too? yummy even though it did taste of cough syrup, and not in a good way.

...anyway of course my bullions sucked, but we all agree that i was onto a quite nice bit of a scrumble, so i ran with it and it is quite pretty. lacey pale blue mossy oceany thing that will hopefully make it into my freeform project at some point.

and the reason we were up so late?
my daughter ravenisis had a singing gig at the cellar door again.
she rocked it as usual!!!

my day job

so today's post is going to be more about my day job...quite fitting really as i'm now kinda on notice that i may be layed off soon and also because it ada lovelace day!

i love love love how lucky i've been to make both my hobbies my career at different times in my life, first by crocheting bra tops and dresses and selling them FOR REAL MONEY, then by taking my interest in cyberspace to the ultimate next level and doing it as a day job...

but what's even better is that the craft community has really latched on (with their hooks no doubt) to the sharing idealogies of the web. long live tecnological DIY culture!!!

on the rag

can i please just say how much i fucking hate plarn? i'm trying so hard to create something with it but its ugly...i'm going to keep going and try to finish this bag i'm making, but from now on i reckon i'll be crocheting rags like recycled t-shirts rather than plastic bags.

and besides it being butt-ugly it's really hard on my hands! i can just feel the RSI descending...

wait there's more!

i forgot to say i'm crocheting lovely warm hexagon booties. so it is about crochet. again.

bloody xmas

finally feeling a bit better...still really burning up with fever from the abcess on my rib, but i can move around a bit more! the doclady bandaged it up for me last night and told me to leave it, but i'd already bled through within 3 hours. luckily for me, she trusts me to take care of it myself because of all the body modification that i've done to myself in the past...just wish i could get an immune system so i can do more!!!

until then i'll have to satisfy myself with crocheting designs instead...
finished the jolly roger hot water bottle cozy for the new lil bro-in-law and have started on a nice aum version for my blondeboy. using nice bright blue and a deep fuschia with a bit of varigated thrown in. will be nice for him to take when he is off working away. altho hopefully he'll be getting some london jobs when cardiff finishes as i really really want him here at home to cuddle.

ok - now back to the christmas crochet.
have decided instead of crocheted sushi for the pink tree that i'm going to make black snowflakes for it this year...which means no matter how threadbare the poor thing is getting its going to have to last a couple more seasons!!!

friday

friday is here and i'm sooo tired.
got a big big weekend and alot to do before i head off to croatia on thursday!
and i'm so conflicted as i want to go to cafe stitch at the wellcome as well as the bust craftacular tomoro...choices choices. and of course there is all the usual pre-vacation preening that needs to happen - like redarkening my hair, etc...

so i'm tired but also really excited as i've been thinking alot about crocheting nice soft wire jewellry and the lovely reirabbit brought in some bracelets she has and now i'm sure that i want to try it out...first with some cheapie shit stuff then the best ever ingredients that i can find! can you imagine soft lovely rose gold wire with deep black ebony crystals??? yum! so i'm busy clearing wip's to make room for new crafty bits.

so has anyone else tried this?

oo i can't wait - yummy tiaras and stuff!

tonight though will be spent working on my skully afghan...and maybe finishing off some more mario piranha flowers...

busy

sorry i've not updated!
been busy crocheting and listening to my audiobooks...
still making the 12 pointed katamari celestial stars.
and doing as many stitch and bitches as poss - just home from the hoxton group that have been meeting in the spread eagle pub as futbal has taken over juno for now! i'm really loving the spread eagle - its much more my type of place but way too dark to do my stars in! i need to start a new project that is light coloured and big hooked.

i do need a nice lacy scarf thingy...hmmmm

shoes boos and tattoos

last night so far has been my best most favourite stitch and bitch ever!

well...besides the iknit sunday knitroast at the pub in soho but it only loses marks as its freezing in there...but i finally went along to prague bar and it was so nice to be around alot of women that i just immediately felt comfortable with! that's not say i don't cherish the others i've met up with elsewhere - especially my lovely celia in anaheim.

so i was sitting there with everyone in the window of prague bar in shoreditch crocheting another skully square (more below) and my lovely friend fanny minka saw me and popped in!  fanny is the one i'm going to leave alll my shoes to when i die as we are exactly the same size and she looks so good in them...i just wish i was as thin as her and with the same sense of style!

squares:

i must have enough to finish off the blanket now for rafrasiles!

but whatever will i take along for my pub crocheting when this is done?

all i can think of is to maybe make a lovely sampler afghan of crochet stitches as there are sooo many lovely stitches out there that i want to try and may never incorporate into a project otherwise.  i also want to experiment more with texture and doing embossed type alpahabets (thanks to ppl on ravelry for patterns!) to do some crocheted thank you cards.

and reminder to self:

collect plastic carrier bags from everyone at work for recycled crochet projects!

i think i want to make some bowls for the office/x

i've been really inspired...

i do have to say that someone i met at the royal festival hall last week has really got me thinking and i wish that i had her details...fingers crossed that our paths cross again because i'd really like to let her know.

she was knitting a shopping bag out of strips of plastic carrier bags! so ever since i've started a bag to put nice bags in to use in the future...i'm thinking of maybe crocheting wierd nic-nacs out of the stuff!