....Julie Arkell.....

........now i bet that's grabbed your attention, hasn't it.............................................

.........tomorrow is the day that i have been longing for since May, ....the Julie Arkel workshop in London...........since the weekend i have been slowly filling my basket with the essentials that an obsessive crafter like myself  needs to take on such a trip to get her through the day.....


.........................Number one....take receipt and print out email of confirmation...generally one wouldn't do this but being me it would be just my luck to turn up and they have no recollection of who i am.

........................Number two.....take crochet hooks and various knitting needles, just in case.........just in case of what i don't know.......but just in case!

........................Number three.....take a small carton of soya milk for cups of tea as where ever i go i always take my own soya milk as most people look at you blank when you say....."yes' i would love a cup of tea...do you have any soya milk."?......and then you get the look.......so, to avoid 'the look' i take my own milk.

........................Number four.....take various bits of favourite materials and sewing stuff......also, just in case.

........................And number five......my camera.....most very essential.


......................Then......i had a phone call  to say that the workshop was cancelled, as poor Julie Arkell can't make it due to unfortunate family troubles..........the workshop is now in March.


..............................................................................Oh.......................................................................




................Of course my thoughts were with Julie and hoped that nothing too awful was wrong with her family.....but i couldn't help feeling rather deflated.....................but these things happen...........so i wont be bringing you all wondrous photos of my day in London after all............it shall have to wait till spring.............................................


........................so instead, for now, i shall show you what i have been up to lately...............

.....have you seen this over at Stephanies site.....at Tiny owl knits......

......well.....

.......now i have a gnome too.....

.....he's a bit of a 'billy no mates' at the moment.....but I'm working on it.....

......great fun to make and really quite easy, i have never done wet felting before and now i think i want to felt everything......and i also now have somewhere to keep all my double pointed needles.......well......one set anyway.....for now.

.....I shall be back on Monday to show something else that i have in progress, using some very new yarn.

.....Bye for now...

Pixie x