X-treme knitting...

I got these AMAAAAZING large knitting needles from The Knitting and Stitching show in November, and finally got round to using them in the Christmas holidays. Part of the Knit and Destroy makeover that is happening is changing the yarns I use, and this giant knitting is great for using up my acrylic yarn.

The 4 steps of knitting a stitch as taught to me by my mum...

IN

OVER

THROUGH
OFF
This giant piece of knitting is now beign very useful as a rug in our dining room, for more information on where to get hold of these giant needles and what you can do with them, check out Rachel John's fab website.

Ladyfest is ten!

So the year is 2010, which means it has been ten years since I thought my Hi-Fi had been hit with the millennium bug, when my friends had just got popcorn stuck in it, tens years since I left school and also ten years since the first Ladyfest happened in Olympia.

Now I would love to say I was cool (and rich) enough to have been there, but I wasn't.

I was, however present at the first one in the UK, Ladyfest Scotland, in Glasgow.

This was one of those life- changing/defining/forming/saving moments. Seeing all my favourite bands, hanging out with awesome people and just learning so much. Ladyfest Glasgow will be one of the best times of my life. From the dancing with Allison Wolfe, to the telling Beth Ditto what Weetabix taste like, drinking lots of Irn Bru and even getting called 'it's the fookin Tribe*' in the street

*CH5 program I never watched but Nickie says it was dead good!!

I'd like to thank the folk that went to the first one in Olympia and were so inspired came back to Scotland and made the first UK Ladyfest, to everyone and anyone who has since been involved in any Ladyfest, and especially those who started the very first one.

I have since 2001, opened up the festival in London, sold my wares in Brighton Leeds and Manchester and had an all round awesome time!

The last picture is a selection of hand embroidered, Ladyfest flyer's from around the world that I stiched.

Honorary Craft Idol

This one is given for total craftinitiative, and goes out to...

Kickball Katy

Bass player with Vivian Girls, Kandy, Nickie and I went to see them play on Sunday (awesomesness!). I purchased the last small t-shirt, Kandy got one of the remaining medium, Katy told us they were selling great but they had lots of large ones left and that the folk of the UK are just too small!! We were saying that it doesn't matter if they are too large as we will just take them in, like we do with most band tees, she said she is totally the same but a lot of people wouldn't bother.
Kandy and I saw them again on Friday, where Katy was taking in the larger shirts to sell,they were being pre-ordered, so to speak! She was stitching them up with a needle and dental floss, know that is what I call crafty D.I.Y action.
That's What I call ace!
Here is my t-shirt that I took in, I used the uncool method of a sewing machine, kinda wish I had a hand stitched floss Katy special!!
Polaroid taken by Nickie, thanks!

Craftastic!!!

I forgot about Architectures In Helsinki ( I tend to have a listen when the sun i shining through my windows!) until I saw this on Craftster blog, it's like a well crafty video!

Wilkos craft time part two.

Been down Wilkos again, checking out what crafts they've got going on, found these:We have a how to- origami fortune teller in Sugar Paper #1, only we named it a Cootie Catcher!

I tried to buy you a Hostess cupcake...

...but you're a ruddy vegan (or vegetarian). I tried vegan baking for the third time, a recipe I got off Vegan Village (I tried it out last week, but the cakes were quickly scoffed round Charlotte and Lara's ace pad when playing The Twilight board game). Anyway, you may recall my first attempt was a flop, but my second and third were not, so much so I thought I'd fancy them up, and make them look like Hostess Cupcakes:My cakes sadly don't have that gelatin filled centre, but I reckon I could find an alternative (fluff for veggies?!) but they still taste nice!
Here are some pop culture references to Hostess Cupcakes:

Jigsaw, JIGSAW YOUTH!!

I like jigsaws, in fact I might even say I love them, we had the same 5 or 6 when I was younger, my sister and I used to do the, we each did certain parts of the jigsaw, like I always did the bluebells and she did the foxglove on a certain round floral number!

The other day I got a new tattoo, it was jigsaw themed:

The picture is pretty shoddy, it says Youth, it was inspired by this:

I was also checking out all things crochet tonight, you see I am learning to crochet and determined to make it a craft I can do, look at this hotness:

Then I found this little gem:

I managed to do it in 3minutes 36 seconds, I tell you if I were using my hand and not a mouse, I would have done it in half the time.
I can say for definite that there will be some jigsaw action in Sugar Paper 5!