get comfy - its a long one!

if i was in a wheelchair, i could crochet as i was pushed around!

i had this thought when i was walking from my 2nd tattoo meet down to have a pot of tea at shop/do/drink/whatever...which is awesome because it shares the very very nice toilets downstairs with the adult book/sex shop next door. if i didn't already have drawers of 'toys' i'd have side-tracked, but what i really really need is 4-ply! so sounds like a trip to nest is needed - next saturday...

think saturdays are now going to be my girlie stitch days.

so my weeks will be kinda like this:
sunday - tribal/bfatclubff
monday - gym
tuesday - rest
wednesday - tribal fusion/orange wednesdays
thursday - fat club
friday - family home evening usually
saturday - girls girls girls!!! long legs and burgundy lips...girls,girls, girls
dancin' down on Sunset Strip...

which actually makes me try to remember if i ever have crocheted on sunset strip? i'd love to yarnbomb hollywood when i'm back home. this year i reckon i'll keep making the bunting for int'l yarnbomb day - which is exactly a week after i am hostessing the adorable ms. marmitelover's underground craftiversity at her brunch club...please do come along if you can - there will be teacup candle making as well as yummy food! and i'll be teaching crochet too.

and as well as a bit of a teaching gig for ms martmite, which really is more hostessy, which means i really really need a new outfit - especially as i've now lost 20lbs in the last month! but as i'm still losing i will leave it until right before the craftiversity to buy something...although thinking, one of my pretty lacy petticoats will probably be perfect for the day!

ooo, i should crochet some accessories to go with the outfit...but after my little blip yesterday, i definitely got my groove back and worked my perfectly manicured fingernails to the bone yesterday, even working into then night as i didn't go to the bellydance event last night...so i started with resurrecting my all black freeform shawl project, which got sooo many compliments while i was working on it at tea yesterday - especially from the interweave girlies, who may be using my ff clue giving skills at some point! (interesting...)

then i got home, and made a nice placemat for the sitting room table out of some lovely cottony papery twine i got at the poundstore on caledonia rd by the tattoo shop jolie rouge. i'm going to make more but it was a bit tough on my wrist so i'm limiting myself to one a day = last night's was a square, i think tonight's will be 3 flowers joined in a triangle.

then...i decided to make a BIG tote bag out of some of the skully squares that i'd made for my assface bald ex's blanket - it will be perfect to carry scarves and yoga mat, etc when i'm travelling for bellydance workshops! so i've started crocheting together the very very multi-coloured squares with a dark dark soft tweedy charcoal DK.

...and breathe!

lost my mojojojo...

its a grey day outside, and even though it's bright coloured afghans and lovely white walls here in my bedroom i'm just not really feeling inspired...or rather i AM feeling inspired but nothing is really grabbing me...well, nothing that is a carry around work on over a pot of tea later at drink/shop/do type of project. there's actually LOADS that i want to make, but don't have the right yarn for...or i've got the bits to assemble or stuff or finish but the projects just aren't mobile.

ugh. fuck.

and drink/shop/do don't list the yarns they sell so not sure what i could pick up there out of their nice little glass display counter of goodness. hmmm...ok, my time to go rummage some more through the box of yarn behind the door to see what i come up with. will check back with ya'll later.

december raqs!

the last few weeks have been busy - busy bristol bellydancing, busy with xmas nights out, and busy being bitten by the flu bug. ugh!

so went to a fucking amazing tribal weekend in bristol, and didn't actually crochet a stitch, although i did yarnbomb every pub that i was in! ( no photos sorry )

the first night we were there, and one of the main three reasons for the trip was the tribal vitalogy weekend put on by viktoria pearl boheme at what used to be the junction on stokes croft. the venue wasn't very large and within the first hour was sooo packed out it was impossible to move, but i still made a few visits to the souk where i scored some a nice little dread fall in colours the same as my hair and already adorned with beads and rings - for less than it would have been me making myself despite having boxes of synth hair just sitting there on the shelves staring at me...

i also scored some lovely waist belts all beaded and jangly, which i've already worn as headpieces - and some lovely jewellry bits n bobs. so happpy - and all for less than the one piece i scored at raqs brittania - so bargain! and gave me something to wear at cat's birthday bash...all i needed was added facepaint with drum n bass dj and danced my ass off all night - and this all after a couple hours workshopping with the amazing samantha emmanuel drilling upper body AND the evenin in the pub while my bondeboy flashed his sparkly g-string at absolutely everyone!

gotta love him.

then home.
a couple xmas dinners.
and flu.

been stuck on the sofa and barely managed to make anything at all the last day or so - just some nice sparkly ornaments for my bright pink tree!

project

so i've started another new project for myself...a warm cozy hat out of the rowan bamboo tape, in a lovely dirty brown colour. hopefully i'll finish it tonight!

birthday suit

tonight at knitclub was so lovely - not been to an iknit evenin in ages and it was so lovely to catch up with everyone and make new friends again, but also to teach my friend jo the birthday girl! she is an amazingly quick learner and her crochettension was perfecto...such a pleasure to watch her churning out stitches. i've created another happyhooker! and i've convinced all the girls to bring our crochet out to the charlotte street hotel tomoro night...posh cocktails stitch and birthday bitch.

cowl free for now...

well, i started a cowl - one i found on ravelry that another crafty suicide girl designed and it was going to be lovely but then started thinking...i can't get my bandage wet, so how am i going to wash my hair? thought about booking a wash and blowdry at aveda tomoro, but i can't stretch my neck back so no way i can get my head in the bowl...hmmm. so i'm just going to keep piling on the bumble and bumble hair powder, twist the front into a quiff, and then put on a headscarf a la 1950s starlet...

...that way i can keep the skanky hair covered too!

but did also order a lovely hajib - i couldn't resist.
it's black with starbursts embroidered onto it. will arrive at my office too late for me to wear this weekend, but will come in handy for attending muslim friends' weddings and other events where i could feel more comfortable covered up.

so back to crocheting 12 pointed stars!

24 years ago today i had a fresh c-section scar!

the partying has really continued, altho i can't say that it has all been happy days again this week. my life is still so up/down that i don't know what to do about it anymore...so just sitting tight and waiting it out (with bottles of champagne and vicodin!). tonight is my daughter's 24th birthday so i'm sure there will be lots of celebrating...also because she's just moving into her new studio flat today! so birthday and housewarming.

her new flat is down shoreditch, so i'm definitely expecting to see her at the hoxton knit! and i'm sure that my friend kay will be back too. i think she agrees with me that it's our most favouritist stitch and bitch group so far...but i think i'll be back at iknit again this thursday - fingers crossed that there is space for both of us! its seem to just get more and more popular, and rightly so - the guys that run it are so lovely and the location is great.

o dear now i'm even more torn, lol.
but i know that while things are still so unstable in my love/home life that i'm very grateful for all the love and kindness that the hoxton girls have shown...still think i need an extra friend with me though to chaperone my feelings. my fiance is my life and my best friend and everything else and we've shared everything 100% so its sooo hard to do anything without him there.

o dear please don't read that as some weird whatever condition where you go psycho for the other person! i just love him to bits, that is all.

okay, enough of cherie sharing time today - sorry and thanks for listening! am off to create more skully washcloth presents for the hoxton girlies!

hmmm...

just back from the big london new year stitch and bitch at the south bank (and eating some chili noodles to warm up).

it was my first time and i made a special effort as it was their big new year welcome night and i had a good night...

...but i can definitely see how other knitclubbers could find it a bit cliquey...

i know it was really really really really busy, taking up about a quarter of the royal festival hall foyer, so i didn't really expect a personal warm welcome. yet when one of the organiser girlies came over to our table to say hello to a fello knitter who had attended previously, i said hi and that it was my first time and how amazingly busy it was. organiser girlie pretty much blanked me.

weird - especially as it was an advertised newbie night.
(not surprised tho after what i'd heard from others)

but hey ho.
i made a few new friends that are lovely and i hope to cross paths with again another time.

maybe even there again - tonight coulda just been an anomaly as it was sooo busy?

all the other stitch and bitches i've been to have been so great so will definitely give london another chance!