End of August

 After the hot sunny and dry weather, all of a sudden it has now become autumnal. With going out and about and some looking after my granddaughter during part of this month it hasn’t given me as much time for crafting. 

As part of the Summer of Stitching, run by The Bakery Bears for their Patreon members which has involved a mitred blanket, of which I made a small sample mat and a tote bag, the third part is a slow stitched bag tag.

I used some linen fabric backed with felt. Pieces of fabric left over from the bag were embroidered on and I added embellishments of a hexagon and buttons which came from a clothes tag, which has been in my button box for years. White Stuff no longer put buttons on their tags.

Here’s the bag with the tag along with a badge my friend gave me.  

I went to the Project Linus meet in Dorchester taking two completed quilts and picked up a quilt kit.  There wasn’t enough of the large square pieces so I had to add some from my stash. Right colours but not the right theme, but it will have to do.

Earlier this month I also picked up another kit, this kit for Quilts for Care Leavers at the New Forest Quilt Show so September should give me time to work on this. Something a bit different to work on.

I seemed to have expanded my fabric collection and bought fabrics at the Dorset Arts and Crafts Festival at the beginning of this month as well as at the New Forest Quilt Show.

I’ll also be adding to my yarn collection this month with a visit to the Southern Wool Show as I’m visiting on Sunday 31st.

I’ve finished most of my cardigan and sewn together the raglan seams to be able to pick up stitches for the front bands. Not a lot to see at present, but it should be a September finish. I had found a sock that I’ve been working on and that was finished yesterday. A second sock has now been cast on and well under way.  Just a plain vanilla top down sock using King Cole Zig Zag but is an old colourway which looks somewhat like a Cadbury’s Crème Egg wrapper.

Well, it’s the 31st and I’ve visited the wool show today. It didn’t take long to get to Newbury Racecourse, just an hour and a half. It helped that on Sunday the traffic is quieter as there aren’t many holidaymakers to contend with. I did buy yarn (would be rude not to), patterns, a bookmark weaving kit and a French Knitting kit (the wooden piece with lots of nails, it also can with a tapestry needle and instructions. I couldn’t resist some fibre and not sure whether I might felt it of drop spin it but it’s a reminder of our Yorkshire days from 2008 - 11 as it’s called Elsecar and came from Yorkshire company Wingham Wool Works.

So this has been my August. September will see us going away for a few days and I’ll post about that soon.