Crafts and BC

Hi Houston

What hourly rate would you give them I wonder?

Leolady56 EPP is definitely not cheating! It's a great way to get precision and a lot of small details would not be possible with conventional piecing. I've made a wildlife themed quilt using this method.   

How lovely,Flossie25.....I love hearing about people’s memory of rag rugs....

when I was trying to sell mine at Macmillan Coffee morning,more people than I expected came up and said the same...having done “reminiscence”course at work years ago,it thrilled me.

@SnowysMum...I LOVE your little donkey which keeps falling over!

i wonder if you have a copy of the (free?)teddy bear pattern (pretty easy please,!)as I am soon going to be with a lady with dementia who will like to do it with me hopefully...

love Violetsnif xx

Managed to finish three projects this week after not being able to do much with the pain of the chest drain insertion. 

The dinosaur and Unicorn are for the grandchildren of a lady I met in chemo, and the dachshund is a mini version of the dog owned by the daughter of an ex-work colleague. 

I now have a giraffe and a pig fairy in a tutu on the needles! 

Happy crafting everyone! 

Up to your usual standard

I particularly love the dinosaur!

Bit late replying sorry!

Knitting's a funny thing. It's really easy, once you know what you're doing, but quite hard to get a start with it. 

I look at lots of youtube vids to learn (or refresh myself on) different techniques and I find some quite helpful but not all! Trouble is most of them assume a level of knowledge that you probably don't have. The best I"ve found is a lady called Cheryl Brunette who is excellent at explaining clearly. She has a website, blog and plenty of videos. Just google.

Anyway, my suggestion to you would be to find someone, either a relative or friend or perhaps lessons run by your local craft shop, who can give you an hour or so to learn the basics. You'd get much more out of the youtube stuff then. 

But do persist, it's a great hobby and very relaxing. 

Some craft shops do workshops to teach the basics and different techniques. I've been to a couple on crochet, not that I've learned enough yet to crochet toys etc. I have a DVD on beginner's crochet as well - haven't watched it yet though. 

I taught myself to knit via a book, and there are plenty of videos on the 'net to help!

Good luck

They are delightful, Weeblemum, you have inspired me to get on with something creative.

Hi weebkemum I think your knits are fantastic so artistic am afraid am not really good at crafts well done x

those are looking great. I haven't done a lot of crafting lately apart from my cross stitching as I've just had a contralateral mx last week. So arm movements are a bit restricted at present.