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!!!

love love love

i know it's not crochet, but it's stitchy related, and it's my blog so i can talk about whatever the f*ck i want to really...because i just ordered these embroidery transfers by tara mcperson for sublime stitching!:! how great are they???

and in true DIY style, i'll probably mix it up a bit, and i doubt i'll embroider with as many strands as the example photos (from sublime website)...i really think the lips could be done with maybe only one strand of floss?

i'm just sooo damn excited about this as i love tara - as a person and as an illustrator. she is so talented and the sweetest person you'll ever meet. i first fell in love with her stuff years ago and was so lucky that i hooked up with her via my old flatmate and friend and co-work kimlovesstuff.

i am not usually such a fangirl, but having tara passed out asleep on my sofa was quite an honour. she even left behind a pair of knickers that we thought about making art out of but instead we washed and my daughter ravenisis wore them. o and my daughter has a BIG show tonight if any of you londoners want to attend? shit shit shit - i did actually think the show was tomoro!!!

sorry jo roach - i'm not going to make make your gin ladies homewarm stitch and bitch...

fuck love

alix was great spinning on the plinth last night!

and i've now got quite a few ohms...they are definitely the new skulls

friday the fucking 13th

i have just had the lovely magnus add iknit to his lovely lunchy site.
go and check it out!

i'm off to a hen party tonight, where i will be surrounded by lovely ladies who are excited by love. i really wish that i could be, but things still aren't perfect with me and the fiance...so i made another comic strip about it.

i am taking the bride to be a nice crocheted black pop heart with a big lovely hat pin stuck in it all voodoo stylee and will write up a card about how the true roots of sticking pins in voodoo dolls wasn't evil at all but to instill love and healing intended for the person the doll focussed on. there is a bit on it here, not alot tho!

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!