Mini Flowers

I was trying to find a use for some skewer ends that I had.  The main parts had been used to make some seaside flags and there were small parts of the wood left. So I decided to make some mini flowers to put onto them.

Mini Owl

I've been trying to think of something to sell at the school fair and have come up with the idea of a mini owl (which is the school logo) in the school colours.  Not sure whether to make them into badges, mobile phone charms or just leave them as they are.

Craft Fair

I went to the craft fair at Belmont Hall in Wellington on Saturday.  Turn out was fairly good and managed to sell a few things.  Was my best event so far, and I met lots of interesting people as usual.  Am going to try it again next month, and will see how I get on. Hopefully as its going to be a regular event, it will get more and more visitors and I will sell more.

Finished Blanket

The blanket that I made the squares with is finally finished. Although it is pretty small, I still feel that it is a bit of an achievement, the biggest thing I've made for years, and it has come out rather well!

Tax return - the joy of being self employed!

Not been on here as have been busy with my family as well as sorting out my tax returns for the business.  A  very straight foward job which has been made much more difficult by being sent out the wrong forms and the web site for the tax office being offline.  Meanwhile I am still working on my squares for my blanket and hope to have some photos soon!  I am also going to have a stall at my kids school for their summer fair so need to think of some ideas of things to sell that will appeal to children.

Squares

I'm trying to use up some of my huge bag of wool so am making some squares for blankets.  I'm starting off with a little pram blanket in blue shades and here are some of the squares I have done already.

Little Bag

I had some lovely fluffy wool to use up so decided to make some little bags, ideal for children.

They are simply two granny squares joined together with a chain stitch strap. Very quick and easy and very effective in the colours I have.