Made Marian: Oozing Crafty Goodness

This has been a wonderfully crafty weekend.

On Friday evening I managed to get another tiny bit of my embroidery project done before I went out for dinner with himself and his work buddies.

Margaret and JD were in from the sticks that night and were staying with us in the “big city”. They brought me these fantastic crafty books for my birthday.

On Saturday morning, I went yarn shopping for this…

and this…

The Navy and Yellow is for a sports themed (not Tipperary as I originally thought) baby blanket and the Green and White are for another commission, this time for lapel pins. All will be revealed on both projects in due course.

While I was taking a break from yarn to do some food shopping I met Deborah and Lette in the market, Deborah had another box of tricks for me, more about that later.

After that I pottered off to the Rainbow Coffee Dock to attend my first Stitch and Bitch. For those who haven’t heard of Rainbow, it’s a support service for members of the LGBT community, they have been doing great work in Limerick for many years now. On the S ‘n’ B Bebo page they mention that they are not an exclusively gay branch and so long as you’ve no issues with anyone, they are more than happy to welcome you. I can guarantee that this is definitely the case, despite my status as a man loving woman they made room for me on the couch and offered me the best value coffee in Limerick… €1 for a decent mug of drip coffee, frugal and crafty! It has become apparent that I may have to brush up on my musicals before I go back though Lou, one of the original stitchers, has an account of the gathering on her blog.

Yesterday, I finally took the sewing machine out of the box and get the thing going, thanks in no small way to my mother who managed figure it out based on her years of sewing experience. I can now wind a bobbin, thread the needle and sew in a (relatively) straight line. Amy Butler here I come.

I also managed to reorganise my craft supplies, Deborah has given me so many extra paper craft goodies that I had to buy myself this set of drawers to hold it all. And yes all the drawers are full.

Today, we’re having visitors for a Sunday summer lunch of fish and salads and I’m going to make a start on the Green and White project. All in all, the perfect Bank Holiday weekend.

13 Comments so far

Thanks for the link

I haven’t heard so much discussion of musicals in the coffee dock before! I’m gonna have to brush up my knowledge too heh heh.

It was great to have you and Froodie there.

Well done on getting to grips with the sewing machine. Um…can ya show me how to use mine??

I think the musical talk was initiated by Meghan more so than any of the lads…I’ll take her up on her offer of tea some day and she can put High School Musical on the TV for me.

Yeah, the sewing machine is grand, will have to use it myself a few times to make sure I haven’t forgotten…but I’m a long way off amy butler!

Great to see you Maz, albeit too brief. Thanks again for the lovely card and badge! Thanks for all the advice about where to go etc. The pig sambos were to DIE for! Wished we’d gotten a carton to go as well. Ah well!

P.S. The colours look perfect. Let me know how much I owe you!!!

Gosh, you had a busy weekend. Great news on getting the machine up and running. Enjoy!

I love that tone of green wool. I know what the project is and am very curious to know how you will go about it. Can’t wait to see the lapel pins.

cheers for the link back hun, did u use the pressie I got you yet??? make sure you pamper urself :)

Deborah, those sandwiches are so yummy, have to limit myself to one every few weeks or I’d be broke and I’d probably have clogged arteries as well.

Grannymar, The Green actually looks a a different shade in real life. My photography skills are poor, thankfully my crochet is better, I have v2 of the project here http://www.flickr.com/photos/maz_photos/2731014771/

Lette, haven’t used that part yet, am holding out til I have a really stressful week.

Ooooh - I’ve got to find an excuse to come down to Limerick soon

The last time I tried to use a sewing machine, I broke several needles… I was at school, mind.

Uhoh…. sewing is so quick it can become very addictive! Be warned!!! Lovely little machine, though. I am a huge fan of the Sublime Stitching stuff… I went through an embroidered handkerchief stage after I got my first kit

Jen, absolutely yourself and Mr B should come down some weekend. The Market is just getting better and better you’d love it.

Aileen, I hope sewing does become addictive, crochet certainly has but knitting has gone by the way side I’m afraid.

pressy pic for you http://www.flickr.com/photos/lette_applejuice/2736069739/

Awh, that is so cute. Thanks Lette.

Yarn scares me. My mother liked wool shops and caused us to spend half our childhoods there. On the upside I’m the only male in western Europe that has given successive girlfriends advice on what kind of crochet hook to use when they felt like making see-through tablecloths.

So despite nightmares I’ve had involving clowns brandishing knitting needles, good luck with the still newish blog Maz!

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