.....Billy no mates no more.....

......My little gnome needle holder now has a mate..............meet.....


............................................Geoff................................................

.....only one small problem......

.....Geoffs too short....

.....so Geoffs in charge of crochet hooks.....

......two down, about another six to make......

....now...

.....moving on to the new thingy....

.....I have found some new wool to play with....actually 'billy and Geoff ' are knitted out of it.....

....it is...'Jamesons shetland spindrift' yarn.......quite quite different from what i would usually go for in yarn, but i do like to try out new textures and ideas and i have to say when i first got it and tried it out i absolutely hated it.....very thin, quite fibrousey (not sure if that's a word), breaks easily and generally had me quite annoyed a lot of the time.....but then......all of a sudden......i fell in love with it.....and have been having a good ol' time with it...........so after making gnomes and trying it out for socks and hexipuffs ( see tiny owl knits if your curious about that one)........ i have retrieved my crochet hook from the bottom of my bag and have started on a new blanket with it................

.......i am really enjoying crocheting these squares......it feels good to be making a new blanket again, with a much lighter weighted yarn, plus there are absolutely hundreds of shades...........so i shall keep you up to speed when i can with its progress...........

....Oh yes.....a lovely little pile of crocheted squares........yummy....

......Plus also........thank you everyone for sharing in my deflatedness with the cancelled Julie Arkell workshop........I'm OK now...Mr Pixie and i still got up early yesterday morning and drove up to London anyway for a bit of vintage shopping and people watching at the brilliant 'Spittlefields market', so all was not lost..........shall i show what i bought...............

.....Two lovely little handmade butterfly badges....

.....and a handmade bag....

.....i love bags.......can't ever have enough bags.....yet another passion of mine, but thats a whole differant post for another day, ay...

.....See you all soon... Pixie...xxxx