wedding bells

well i've got a bit sidetracked from my cupcakes and think i got a bit of the royal wedding bug, because i've dropped everything and am churning out granny triangles as fast as my little fat fingers can cope. gonna make some cute crocheted bunting for the day...that i can also re-use for the 4th of july, lol!

have your cake and don't eat it.

now i've got a pile of granny squares just waiting to be shipped out, i thought i'd go back to working on the cupcake scarf i started when the amazing twinkie chan was in town...i need something easier to carry round as i'm off on a gypsy dance weekend with hilde over easter! i'm on a super hardcore diet right now, so will be nice to be travelling on a day that chocolate is supposed to be consumed...

...although it's going to hard to avoid the wine!

military precision

so i have kept on making the granny squares, but used up so much of the stash that my colourways are getting narrower and narrower to the point that i'm not that happy with them. why o why are yarn stores not open til at least 22:00 ???
(that's 10pm for all of you that have never been in the military...)

actually, there is drink-shop-do over on caledonia road that might still be open. hmmm. *ponders while surfing their site AND updating my blog at the same time* it's not that far away...but i'll be over that way in the morning anyway as i want to be the first in line at jolie rouge tattoo shop for the sunday service for japan. each tatoo artist has designed a sheet of japanese inspired flash, and will be tattooing designs off of it with all proceeds going to the relief efforts.

now off to have a lovely lavender bath...

more rainbows

even more crochet a rainbow granny blanket squares!
i am being alot more bold with colour than i usually am and loving the results. usually i'm working to a set scheme so don't play around as much as i am with these squares. i love the randomness - something i usually have a hard time with...so strange and so not punk, but hey that's me!

sleep is so not for the week!

well hello thursday...

i crammed so so much into my birthday weekend that it just pretty much has not stopped and is about to become a week long celebration. but yesterday i did manage to create some granny squares for the crochet a rainbow blanket project - finally. made the one square (above) while waiting for the radiator guy yesterday morning (sounds like beginning of a porn film doesn't it???) then a few more last night after my tribal belly dance class with hilde.

granny squares are a bit of a weird project to work on because they are sooo easy that you can pretty much do them in your sleep BUT they require so many balls of yarn they are not very portable...kinda the same as a my all black freeform project that is using all different types of black yarn. so i need a portable project to carry with me again...maybe i'll dive into my wip pile and see what can be resurrected!

i also need to get some little packs together as i will be helping people to hook at this lovely "university" day in june - craft day at the underground restaurant run by the lovely ms marmitelover