Last year I did a summary post of the year, not just crafting related but some other highlights, I thought I’d do the same this year.  This has been the first full year that I have not been employed by a company since I was 15!  Instead I have concentrated on developing my crafting skills and have sold a variety of items through the shop in Strathpeffer.

So this post is a summary of the things I achieved this year (and some memorable highlights).  This is mostly for my own reference, so when I look back in the future I can see what I got up to in 2019.

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🧦 knitting (unless noted as crochet)   👩🏻‍🔬 dyeing  🗡 needle felting  💎 sea glass  🧵sewing 💷 sold  🌀 spinning   🧶weaving 💦 wet felting  🌲wood   🏡 holiday cottage\B&B   🎫 concert   🎟  show

I know it makes no sense having ball of yarn for weaving, but I couldn’t find a better one lol!

January

🧦 Hermione’s Everyday Socks (RC Bluebell)

🌀 1st long draw woolen spin, 1st go at tweed, North Ronaldsay brown, went to Highland Guild of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers open day.

💦 Used my hackle to blend autumnal fibres and felted a scarf, practiced with hackle and new blending board, BFL nuno felted scarf

February

🧦 Hermione’s Everyday Socks in WYS Pigeon, Lintilla shawl

🌀 Hand dyed BFL, Sugar Plum rolags, plied North Ronaldsay.

💦 Finished slipper booties, coin purse, picture of Frankie (Parrot), Christmas Kiss scarf

💎 Various sea glass and shell progress markers (sent some to some blog followers)

March

🧦 1st fair isle hat – Copper River hat, fair isle DPN cosy, swirly swooshy hat, herringbone headwarmer

🌀 Learned to use Andean Plying tool

💦 3 lampshades, tide clock, nuno felted jacket and blending batts practice

April

🧦 Hermione’s Everyday sock in CC Bree

🧶 Bought Rigid Heddle Sample It Loom, wove Blue scarf, some cotton tea towel practice

🌀 John Arbon Teal

💦 6 lampshades, tea cosy, cushion back for silk painted cushion and scissor cosy

👩🏻‍🔬 created a turquoise gradient, beach landscape fibre, purple fibre, mixed colour fibre

May

🧦 Elda cardigan

🧶 Double width woven blue shawl

🌀 John Arbon teal

💦 lampshade, orange coin purse/pouch

💎 Various sea glass and shell progress

🏡 Yorkshire Dales cottage

June

🧦 Quick Sand cardigan, started Such a Winter’s Day and Smitten mittens

🧶 Rock & Peat gradient scarf

🌀 made purple rolags, BFL & Seacell, Rainbow Art Yarn, spinning rolags on spindle and wheel

💦 Bee-u-tiful scarf, Purple and teal silk.  Dropped off stock at Fuzzy Thistle for the first time.

🌲 Hand turned a wooden yarn bowl

🏡 Shepherd’s Hut in Kyle of Tongue

💷 1 scarf

Helen visited

July

🧦 Hermione’s Everyday socks in Regia, Easy Goes It shawl

🧶 Cotton tea towel tests, grey block scarf for Allistar

🌀 grey woolen spun rolags, purple rolags, started new camel and silk, some BFL and seacell, showed niece how to spin on Spindle

💦 4 lampshades for sister, 2 lampshades to sell

🏡 Visited my sister and met two new half cousins, Fibre East

💷 3 scarves

• Dance classes – Greatest Showman and La La Land

August

🎫 🏕 Belladrum 3 day concert

💦 purple wool and silk scarf, additional ones for shop

🧦 Rose City Roller socks, Go Diagonal Scarf

🧶 Tea towel practice

💷 2 scarves

• Sue and the boys visited (Loch Kinellan, Disc Golf, Dunrobin Castle, Stand Up Paddleboarding, EcoVentures boat trip).
• New boiler and oven installed.

September

🧦 Frogged Such a Winter’s Day and re-started, Nurmilintu shawl, Smitten mittens, Interlude hat

💦 scarves to stock the shop (pink sparkly, red sparkly, ocean scarf, turquoise and white, purple, dark green sparkle)

🗡 Fairies, autumn wreath

🌀 silk and camel rolags

🧶 Tea towel practice

🧵Huge project bag

• Started prepping BFL Shetland X Fleece
• Painted garage door
• Perth Yarn Festival & Portuguese Knitting Course
• Allistar’s brother visiting

October

🧦 Perky little hat and mittens, more Smitten mittens, dishcloths.

👩🏻‍🔬 Christmas sock yarn and some fibres

🌀 Brit Spin in team ‘More enthusiasm than skill’ Rambouillet, Whitefaced Woodland (on supported spindle), Perendale, Cheviot.

💦 3 sheep landscape lampshades, 2 beachscape lampshades

🗡 12 fairies and lady bug elf, 3 gnomes and 3 Christmas fairies

🎟 Alan Carr Live

💷 8 fairies, 1 lampshade, 1 scarf

• Loch Ness Knit Fest
• Appointed Treasurer of the Highland Guild of Weavers Spinners and Dyers

November

🏡 Innerleithen holiday cottage

🧦 Such a Winter’s Day jumper, Smitten mittens

👩🏻‍🔬 green, blue, rust wool from Roxy the sheep and some Corriedale

💦 3 large lampshades, 5 baubles, 2 purple scarves, Highland dancer, Christmas fairies and elves, winter picture, sheep picture, Highland cow picture, slippers that I ruined.

💷 3 lampshades, 1 scarf, 1 picture, 2 baubles, Highland dancer

• Jury duty
• Cromarty Yarn Club

December

💦 testing some samples with sari silk, made another pair of slippers, 3 small lampshades.

🧦 finished last Smitten mitten, Antler Toque hat and Christmas socks

 

Selection of 2019 completed items

 

 

 

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Edit: Total sales for the year 2 baubles, 15 fairies, 1 Highland dancer, 8 lampshades, 2 pictures and 9 scarves.