Knitting Up North

Printed Textiles, knitting and crafting

Exciting studio move around…

This week has been unbelievably quiet – as I’ve said before I’m a very bad patient and therefore awful at doing nothing so I’m still struggling a bit with not being able to do anything! To break up the boredom me and the hubby went in to the studio yesterday to tackle the big move [...]

One fair cancelled, another booked…

I thought I wasn’t having much luck with fairs this week – I had to cancel my spot at the Apples and Pears event in Nottingham because I couldn’t walk very well (let alone carry anything!) and then we booked a stall for Craft Candy at the Nottingham Craft Mafia event on the 20th March [...]

Day two and bored…

It’s only day 2 and I am so bored sat at home!  I’m definitely a doer as opposed to a ‘rester’.  Whenever I’m ill I always get like this, a lot of people always say they enjoy the rest but I don’t, I feel so useless.   I’m now on some fab pain killers and [...]

Stuck at home…

I’m having a really bad day today, my back is playing up in a really bad way. It’s been painful since Christmas, just gradually getting worse but these past 2 days it’s been really bad. It was difficult to go to sleep last night, I just couldn’t find a comfortable position to lie in. I [...]

First fair outside Sheffield…

I’m all booked in for a fair and it’s my first outside of Sheffield.  Isn’t that strange?  I can’t believe I’ve never been to a fair in another city before!  I was always put off the idea because I don’t drive and thought it’d be too difficult to get anywhere. For the moment I’m sticking [...]

Big delivery…

Monday was a really exciting day – I had a lovely big delivery!  My washout booth arrived and also 5 new screens, things don’t get any more exciting than this!  I was at the library in the morning so had to rush in to town to wait for my delivery, I just made it! Things [...]

  • Tutorials:

    Craft Fair Banner Part One

    Craft Fair Banner Part Two

    Light Box tutorial coming soon...