I started 2018 on sabbatical from work and finished the year having resigned, so I haven’t done any paid work all year. But what I have done is work on my creativity and what a wide range of projects I have done!
So this post is a summary of the things I achieved this year (and some memorable highlights).
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🧦 knitting (unless noted as crochet) 🌀 spinning 💦 wet felting 🗡 needle felting 👩🏻🔬 dyeing
🖼 drawing 📷 photography 💎 sea glass
🏕 camping trip 🏡 holiday cottage\B&B 🎫 concert 🎟 show
January
🧦 Alpaca lace scarf, poncho and red fingerless mittens
📷 3 credits at camera club
💎 sea glass and Pooh bear pendant
February
🧦 arm knit throw and finger knit cushions (with mahoosive acrylic), Crazy sexy wool hat
🖼 sketch of Ylva
📷 Bolivia Audio Visual show
March
🧦 really warm hat, quick and bulky mittens, Allistar’s alpaca hat, purple fingerless mittens, big wool colour hat for Elaine, 2 x cable headbands, rasta fasta hat, swirly squishy hat,
📷 came 4th in Annual Mini Comp., 3 acceptances in Annual projected image and 2 acceptances in Annual Print comps and Flamingo on Salar de Uyuni included in Club’s submission in Highland Challenge.
🏡 Isle of Skye holiday cottage and day trip to Raasay
💎 sea glass pendants
April
🐈 Dice died aged 16 years and 5 days.
🧦 chunky basket (crochet), cat hats for Merri and friend, drinks cosy and cathedral hat
💦 dusty pink handbag
💎 sea glass wind chime
👨👧Dad visited
🎟 saw Hamilton musical
May
💎 sea glass pendants
🏕 Dunnet Bay
🌀 bought spinning wheel, carders, niddy-noddy and fibre stash and acid dyes
🧦 hitchhiker scarf
June
🏕 Sango Sands and Clachtoll Beach
🌀 landscape rolags to 2 ply, purple and red scraps
🧦 my 1st socks, ipad cover, business card holder and 2nd hitchhiker, dog poop bag holder
💦 rose and blue circular needle case and soap bars
July
🌀 Tour de Fleece spinning purple merino and gold bamboo, ethereal ether, some British 56s, perpetual purple
💦🗡 highland cow
🧦 fair isle hat, 3rd hitchhiker, started chimney fire cardigan, alpaca cowl for Allistar, coffee cup cosy
👩🏻🔬 British 56s wool
🏡 Met up with Elaine in Kinlochleven
August
🏕 Orkney camping
🎫 🏕 Belladrum 3 day concert
🌀 samoyed dog hair, ethereal ether, home dyed British 56s
💦 purple wool and silk scarf
🧦 still knitting cardigan
👩🏻🔬 cheviot bulky yarn
September
🎫 🏕 Jocktoberfest 2 day concert
🏡 Loch Sunart holiday cottage
💦 turquoise wool and silk scarf and tiny purse for sister, rose and blue double pointed needle roll case, attempt at nuno felting
🧦 glasses case, crochet dog poop bag holder and finished Chimney Fire cardigan
October
🌀 Brit Spin in team ‘more enthusiasm than skill’ Shetland
👫 visit by Annie and Michael
🧦 Allistar’s socks, cheviot 3 set (hat, cowl & mittens), 2 at a time fingerless mittens
💦 green and red wool and silk scarf for Annie
🎫 saw Turin Brakes in concert
November
💎 sea glass progress markers
💦 suri alpaca and silk scarf, stripe scarf for dad
🌀 finished camel and silk blend
🧦 started Lintilla and dad’s socks
🗡 autumn sparkle fairy
📷 came 2nd in annual Portfolio comp
December
🌀 poppy corriedale fractal, finished Shetland
🧦 finished Dad’s socks, poppy fractal hat for husband, started Void shawl
👩🏻🔬 dyed BFL fibre, merino/silk blend and Shetland
🗡 Christmas bauble, mouse pictures and Christmas pudding
(I don’t remember which month but I also sewed a project bag.)
Selection of 2018 completed objects
