Miss Aine

Made another dress from a skirt last week, just have to sew the top of the halter together now. I got the skirt while I was pregnant, bigger than my normal size to fit over my expanded hips. Its far too big now but I really liked the colour and details on it so I decided to make it into a dress. I used an old pattern of an empire line dress to make the bodice in a coordinating fabric and then sewed it onto the skirt. It'll make a really nice summer dress - if we ever see any summer again!

I feel like I've been a bad blogger lately, but then I did have the giveaway over the weekend so that meant no posts. Thanks to 'Anonymous' for the advice about the 'stupid internet'. However, the problem also affected C's apple computer and his work laptop so he thinks it was either the router or our internet provider. Its been okay since Monday afternoon so at least that's fixed. My annoyance has now turned on to the wedding. I had asked for the rooms at the hotel to not be blocked booked anymore but guests who rang were still been directed to me. Plus some rooms I had booked weren't booked, and guests who thought they were booked were told they weren't when they were. Plus quite a few of my relations have asked me to reserve rooms for them. So I've been on to the hotel nearly every day for the past week and a half. Its doing my head in. Hopefully its all sorted now. Other wedding annoyance is the fact that my mam keeps insisting that I ...

All go here this weekend. Myself and C were at a wedding on Saturday so my parents came up to look after Smem. They all had a great time, which was good! They stayed Saturday night and then on Sunday my brother and his girlfriend came over for lunch. It was quite spontaneous but lovely to have everyone together for a bit. And Smem loved it! Access to the computer has been limited. Our internet connection is acting up so sometimes I can check my email but can't get onto any other sites - very annoying. I was going to include a picture in today's post but it was loading for 5 minutes and never appeared so I cancelled it. Stupid internet!

The last few weeks I've been knitting a lacy wrap. I got some laceweight yarn as part of a swap earlier this year. I'd never knit with laceweight yarn before so it was interesting. This wrap is called 'Lacy/River Wrap'. I found it on Ravelry, but its also on the Prima website. It was easy to knit but it took a bit of getting used to. I was using 7mm needles with the thin yarn which I'm definitely not used to! It was successful though so it may have started a new trend in my knitting! In other news, I have not had any contact from the winner of the blog giveaway so I've picked a new winner at random - Melanie. She'll get a message through Ravelry today, as she left her Rav name.

It was my sister's birthday last week and as well as knitting her a pair of socks and buying her a load more socks in the shops, I decided to make her a little bird brooch. I was inspired by a brooch that I saw on Cuteable the week before. I had intended to make the wing out of nice pattern cotton but wasn't bothered with turning under the edges and doing nice applique when I actually came to make the brooch, so I just made it all out of felt.

I finally got myself set up as a designer on Ravelry so I've been busy today adding my patterns to the database so that they can be sold directly through Ravelry. And I already sold one today. Yippee!! Just have to add my free patterns now. As I had written them on the blog, rather than as separate documents, I will have to retype them and make them into PDFs. So a few more days wait for people for those. One free pattern that is available to download now, and is my newest pattern is : Miss Mouse download now

Comment no.5 - Christine. Congratulations! I cannot contact you through your blogger profile so please send me an email and let me know which additional pattern you would like from my shop . Thank you to all who took part. Coming up tomorrow is a free pattern (and maybe a new winner if I do not hear from Christine!)