Hi.

Hi, and welcome to my blog. I used to blog on Tumblr years ago, but I drifted away from tumblr, and so stopped blogging. I've decided to get back into it, so here I am.

This is a place for me to blog about the things I make, and also my day to day life living with spinal deformities and chronic pain.

I knit, crochet, paint, and draw. I do cross-stitch, pyrography, wire-work and beading...Basically if it's a craft I can do sat in my heated recliner, or at my desk, there's a good chance I do it, or want to learn it. You can see most of my knitting and crochet projects on my Ravelry Page here, but the plan is to put my current and future projects here too.

Photo shows the start of a striped knitted shawl project. Black yarn and rainbow yarn are striped in garter stitch with short row sections in black making 3 wedge shaped sections on the left .

The above photo is one of the things I'm working on right now. It's by a designer caller Lisa Mutch. A group of us in the LSG monthly thread on Ravelry decided that we were all going to choose any design of hers we liked, and all of us would knit them at the same time in a Mutch-along. I'll show you more of my projects as I work on them. I have a  worsted weight cabled sweater, a 4 ply fair isle sweater, a crocheted dragon, a knitted skirt, a lace weight t-shirt and a couple more shawls in progress right now. I really should get some things finished!

One of the things I've just started making are hair accessories. I have long hair, and the problems with my spine mean that it's difficult for me to do much with it. My husband washes and brushes it for me, he'll even french plait it for me, but I wanted to do something different. I got some bamboo chopsticks, and using wire, beads, alcohol markers and my dremel, made a selection of hair sticks to match my clothes.

Photo shows 6 chopsticks in different colours. Each one has coordinating charms and beads at the top, held on with wraps of thin wire.

So now you know a little about me, and the kind of things I like to make and do, I hope you'll stick around and join me on my blogging journey.