Taking my time with Bertie!

I miss knitting! During the summer I fall slave to the idea that if I sit inside I am wasting the good weather. So now, I am very much looking forward to the long dark cold evenings of winter, because for some reason when the summer approaches...the evenings become longer and time spent at home becomes less and less...and so my knitting is left to gather dust in the corner. Already there is a nip in the air, and I can feel myself full of anticipation for the nights spent in front of a roaring fire curled up with my fiance and our little dog, blanket thrown over us and knitting in hand! Poor Bertie is stuffed half made in my knitting bag behind the couch! I vow to take him out soon and finish him off!

So as I have mentioned on countless occasions, I am getting married and that is the reason for knitting all the stuffed toys in the past number of months!! My next project is to knit lots of booties and sell them at Christmas craft fairs starting in November. As many of you know..weddings are expensive..I am hoping to sell some booties and make a little extra cash to help us on our way! I will post pictures of my booties as I make them on my blog and anybody that wishes to buy them before they hit the stalls please feel free to drop me a comment!!

Hoping to post pictures of Bertie soon! It is my fiance's stag weekend and he is heading off to Derry with the lads for the weekend giving me plenty of time to catch up on some baking, knitting pampering and hanging out with my girlies!! =D

Happy Knitting and Crafting

Helena =D

It has been a while!!! Unfortunately I was not very well at all and had to take a little holiday in the hospital! After suffering with a swollen abdomen and lower right abdominal pain for over 24 hours I decided it was time to take a trip to my GP. He sent me to A&E where they were unsure what was the cause and I was admitted for observation and an ultrasound scan. Unsure whether it was an ovarian cyst or my appendix causing my discomfort the doctors decided to perform a laparoscopy. This showed up free fluid in my abdomen (possibly from a burst cyst) which was removed along with my appendix for good measure! Waking up groggy, appendixless and with a severely distended tummy, I began the recovery process..which fortunately allowed me plenty of time to catch up on some knitting! Unfortunately this only lasted a week..then it was back to work.

As you may have read in my previous posts I have been working on some projects for my upcoming wedding. Since my most recent post I have more or less completed the bride and groom!! see below for a picture!!

Cosying up by the fire!

 

 

 

My almost complete bride..she still needs flowers

 

 

The handsome groom!!

 I still have some work to do on the bride such as her bouquet and a bit more detail in her dress! These little things I will do closer the wedding!!

If you look at my previous posts you will notice that I changed a few details on both the bride and groom. As my hubby to be is starting to lose his hair and so keeps it very short - I gave the groom no hair and instead shaded in with a colouring pencil to give he effect of short stubby hair =D. And for the bride, I gave her no sleeves and lengthened her veil...not giving anything away at all am I?? =P


Prior to my stay in hospital, I had my bridesmaids over for a girly weekend to help make wedding invitations! After dancing the night away until 5am Saturday morning it was a bit of a slow start on the Saturday..but we got there..below is the finished result!

I decided to hand make our invitations so they are more personal to us! All the card stock was ordered from the US and I used a guillotine to cut them to the desired shape and size. I designed the invite on photoshop (many, many, many hours of photoshop - I now consider myself an expert). Double sided tape was then used to stick everything. I also hand drew a map for the directions (google maps version was just so dull heehee). This was then scanned into the computer and printed on the back side of the directions insert! I am so proud of the results! I have only made a few so far to date! It's been pretty crazy trying to settle back in to work and life in general after being in the hospital..not to mention that I still have the original abdominal pain I was admitted with! But I am sure I will get there eventually! And I know it will be so worth it!!

So I will leave you with what I am currently crafting, along with the invitations of course..I am a very good at multitasking =D. My current project and I think by far my fiance's favorite...a knitted Bertie Bassett!! I have him more or less completely finished but as I had no stuffing to fill him with he was placed aside for a few days..but it won't be long now and he will be joining the others in time for the big day!! Hoping to post pictures soon!!


Happy knitting and crafting,


Helena =D