waist not want not

Last year I won.project of the month at my favourite wool shop . I had not been crocheting long so was really excited. And even better got twenty pounds.

My winning entry was this

The wool shop is in Wales 

They have  other shop but the Wales one is like alladins  cave. If you have never been I urge you to try. Here is a link http://www.abakhan.co.uk/ they cater to every type of craft each separated into barns.  And rest of the family not neglected  there is cafe and a park. Plus it only short drive to sea side but sadly for us weather was not on outlets side so we just went to the shop. I bought  one of there discount packs . Just over 12 pounds for ten balls of sidar click chunky  I chose  black cherry it looks like this. 

It's lovely to crochet with  this is it so far 

Can you guess what it is yet? 

Some might not like the humble granny but it remains one of my favourites . It looking lovely so far and think it will look good when finished . If it's nice may be good few getting them.as presents lol .

bag lady

I love bags when I took knitting back up the first thing I made was as bag. As I learnt to crochet the sane thing happened

Here us a selection of the bags I have made over the year.

Each bag tell a story this was made after a cushion project  never got finished and didn't want to waste the  granny squares I made 

This was my first Lucy project  and I managed to do.the increases wrong but I still like it and I love the sqidgy chunky wool. This bag is responsible for my love of both wool warehouse and stylecraft.

 This was a basket to keep my wool.for travelling all.over floor 

There of course are others I never took.picture off and the bags I still long to do such as this one.

So my.question is if I love bags and let's be honest I have many either that I have made or bought why is the sofa always covered in wool.needles , hooks you name it . Maybe my love of bags stems from.the wish to be more organised but knowing I never will be

surprise surprise

 September is a funny month kids back at school Christmas before you know it and I must stay focused and stick to Xmas projects and yet I am.distracted. a face book group is doing a mystery crochet a long . I know it's a hat. I know it's the advanced and I know it's in chunky but other than that I gave no idea. I am taking g part as its fun to join in and its four rows a week  so it's a tiny acceptable distraction


So here is today efforts

As you can see there is no telling what army this hat will be but I am looking forward to finding out . Any way that's enough distractions back to work