Hello!! No, I haven't run away to exotic climes with a ruggedly handsome, wildly sexy multi-millionaire. But a girl can imagine.....................aaaaaahhhh, yesssss!
No, I have been busy in my shed, frantically knitting away on a commission. And planning designs. I had good news too from The Knitter. During the summer, I submitted 5 designs for Spring/Summer 2012. It was the first time I had done a proper design submission, and (oh, the horror) realised I had to submit my ideas with a sketch! I am totally useless at drawing of any kind, and the very idea filled me with terror. However, I reminded myself that I am a big girl, and to just bloody get on with it. And the result was that from my appalling sketches and my rather better swatches, I got 2 designs commissioned!
This means that the other designs might not be flukes! Go, go designer Jax!
We have now agreed a start date for insurance work to start, which means we will be out of the house after half term. I have two more big furniture-type commission knits to do asap, 1 child at home for 2 weeks, the other 2 children off for 1 of those 2 weeks, and a design to submit by December 1st. On the home front, I have a friend coming to stay for a few days during half term. I am very excited and can't wait to see her and the kids, but they have allergies; I have the world's sheddiest cat and a rather untidy house, SO I have to do some unusually thorough cleaning before their arrival. And then I have to empty the kitchen, dining room, hall and the understairs cupboard of hiding which is where things get shoved when they don't have an obvious home so that the builders can remove the kitchen and take up our floor.
Now I've also agreed to have a table at a local craft fair, which is something I have never done before. So I have been trying to make things to actually sell. Sorry about the photos - snapped them as the light was fading - but they are better than no pictures at all.
I made this little mini hold-all tote this afternoon. It's based generally on the bag I showed in the last post, and needs a little tweaking, but overall I'm pleased with it.
This one is another messenger bag, without a flap this time but with two padded pockets on the front and a magnetic clasp closure. I am VERY happy with this one.
I also crocheted a hat, but it's too dark to take a photo of that now. So that's 3 things to sell. And that could be all! Even if I spread them out really creatively, it's not really going to cover a table now, is it??
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