Knitting Up North

Printed Textiles, knitting and crafting

Back to work – bummer!

Well, today is the official last day of my holiday and needless to say I am a little bummed.  I’ve spent the last 2 weeks off work settling the new puppy into our now hectic little household.  I have had a lot of chasing around the house and ‘cleaning up’ to do (you know what [...]

Nowt better than a day out shopping…

Well – we’ve been all over Sheffield today (bless those trams and buses!).  I haven’t been shopping in ages and so today we went craft shopping.  I needed some fabric, interfacing and such like so we hopped on the tram to visit a lovely fabric shop in Hillsborough called Richard’s Fabrics.  They had some lovely [...]

Christmas mug cozy

I forgot to take pictures of these at Christmas so when I popped up to my parents tonight for my dad’s ‘Fish & chips’ birthday meal I took the camera!  I knitted these from a pattern in the Holiday Gifts 2007 Interweave Knits magazine and my parents loved them.  The pattern is called Garter Mug Cozies by [...]

Crafting 365

Yesterday I decided to join the Crafting 365 community on Flickr!  It’s such a great idea!  I think most days I find myself doing a little craft everyday anyway and this is a great way to share work and see what everyone else in the crafting world is upto.  I just hope I can keep [...]

Happy Birthday socks…

Yesterday I finished my dad’s socks and I was soooo relieved when everything was finally stitched up.   I’ve had so much work on these past few weeks with the website and the new puppy so I was beginning to panic a bit about the socks – I needn’t have worried though.  I finished stitching them up [...]

All up and running…

I have had to seriously put my knitting on hold this week (and with only 6 days to my dad’s birthday!!!) because I have been trying to get the payment system working for my Plain Jane Design site.  Today I took the site down and updated it with a shopping cart system and now it’s super duper [...]

I finally sorted my website out…

I have been trying to finish my website for my Pug Jewellery for ages now.  I finished all the pieces last November but the website has been a bit more difficult to sort out.  My hubby is the computer html programming genius in our house whereas I’m a little crap at it frankly!  But hubby’s [...]

Here comes Ruby…

I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves today…our new arrival came yesterday and she is soooo cute!|

New arrival…

Well, tomorrow is the day we go to pick our little puppy up and I can’t wait!  We’ve decided to name her Ruby which we thinks sounds quite nice with Lola.  I’ll be posting a pic as soon as she settles in.  These next two weeks are going to be quite hectic I think.  I’ve [...]

It’s a real pain in the back

I’m miffed! I’ve done something to my back again which means that I’m in tonnes of pain.  I went to work today though (I hate missing it) and didn’t even let on I was in pain.  I always worry that people don’t believe you when you say you have a bad back!  So I’ve basically [...]

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