Sunday, October 31, 2010

Crafty Blog Update 24th-30th October

I would like to welcome any new readers, and thank old ones for visiting, we're not that old and we hope to continue to do this as time allows.

If you know of any blogs that should be included please contact us by email or a post on this or the Irish Knitting, Crochet and crafty blogging post. The same goes if you want to be removed.  If you are included in our updates please mention if you want to be removed from there too.  Please note that neither I or SineadR do this as a full-time job, and allied to that our jobs actually restrict our webtime.  We will do our best to get stuff done as soon as possible but that may take a few days or hours.  In order to optimise my trawling I have noted the last date posts are visible on sites, I only check every month or so on ones that haven't updated in the last four months.   Again, if you know of a dormant blog that has resurrected, feel free to tell me.

You may notice that some posts from Sunday 31st get included, this is if there is time-sensitive information included in them, this does sometimes lead to repeated links from the previous week.

And now on to the roundup.

Akka Design has some shots of some blue Jugenstil artwork on some buildings

An apology for an idler finds some annoyance on the internet

An evening Wasted With has illness interrupt her weekend and reviews a book from Project Gutenberg

An Snag Breac Beo has some inspiring photos of the season and some amusing Crochet and Knitting

Aran Brew makes some Sloe Gin

Basil Explosion has a Bat Headband

Becky Dazzler admits to her love of the Olsen Twins and shows the new little print dress

Bohemian Hooks shows off a crochet soft beret, another beret; what I think is more a cowl than a beret; definitely a cowl; another beret and another cowl

Bola de Berlin's son has his first time in the local park and makes another cowl for a friend while neglecting to make one for herself

Carbonfootprintproject mentions a hurricane hat; finishes up the open studio and looks for input; mentions the opening ceremony and conference in Letterkenny and talks about more climate change indicators

Cattaphilla Designs admits to Bloggers Block

Chebe finds us and describes us as awesome *blushes*

Chicwithstix links to the Glee Timewarp and talks about colour theory

Clasheen talks about nuno felt scarves; posts some pictures from her accessories workshop and has some blog frustrations (with a plea for help)

Daffodils and Dandelions prepares for Halloween

Dispatches from the Deise talks recession, finishes some socks and some other stuff

Doogarry starts a new blog; goes to the knitting & Stitching show and has some fun over the midterm break

Dragonstardays is happy to have a new vacuum cleaner and photographs a shopping centre with a unflat parking space

Dublin Knit Collective mentions a knitting job opportunity and asks how people did at the Knitting & Stitching show

Duilleoga goes to the Knitting & Stitching show and shows some loot

Etsy Ireland has their weekly Crafty News Desk; introduces Designbirdie; talks about Pop-up-shop possibilities; has a treasury challenge; talks about the Ferocious Mingle Market; has a Halloween Fab Five on Friday; and mentions a part of the Knitting & Stitching show

Fly along has some finished socks and makes a handspun dog jacket

Food and Wool revives her blog during October with a finished baby blanket and mittens and plays with a new Bread Machine

From Sheep to Shawl shows off a blue Needle felted jacket; has a Pampootie making workshop and someone models their pampooties

Happy Heart=Happy Soul makes some Golf Club Covers

Haz wool will knit does a roundup of recent projects

Herborium does some yoga illustrations and does a seasonal negative painting

The Muses does a tour of her area; posts news about her leg; makes a pillowcase; receives a pair of parcels and talks about Samhain and shows some pictures of finished objects and some prizes

Kirsti posts a picture of animal cruelty

Knit Inc is in Florida and I am jealous!

Knitting Neels talks about patience and Favourite Things

Laura Eliason talks about a new magazine and some projects

Lets Knit and Stitch has some patterns for the novelty yarn Can Can

Margie's Crafts makes a long doll

Michelle Made This posts about some knitting paintings; reminds us that Kirsty is back with her Kirsty's Homemade home and has some Halloween inspiration

Mitt liv på Irland, My life in  Ireland talks about neglecting her blog and building loot from IKEA

Morg Today had a dude day; gets Christmas fabric and there's more dinosaurs and makes a Parasaurolophus

Neencrochet makes a Chanel inspired skirt and a poncho

NicKnits has a graphic example of blocked versus unblocked and displays a swatch necklace

Pippablue blog from the Knitting & Stitching Show

Playing with Fi(b)re finishes up some Innocent Smoothie Hats and about Autumn

SheKnitUpThatBall gets some yarny photographs while out and about; posts about a new pattern (which reminds me, must finish off test knit properly and PHOTOGRAPH it properly: Wyvernfriend)

Starving Artist Ink has some thoughts

Stitchlily talks about not going to the Knitting & Stitching Show

String Revolution went to the Knitting & Stitching show and made a thing

TBunnyKnits goes to the Knitting & Stitching Show and shares some photos

The Mermaid Undine wonders if her audience is her inspiration and does a Halloween Mine picture

Things that strike me talks about renting; offers a bit of music; points at a bit of better journalism on the downturn; rants about Bankers and leaving the EU for US; talks about France in 2010 and the way to her heart

This is knit offers a sneak peek at their stand at the Knitting & Stitching Show and makes an announcement about Sunday and Monday's opening hours

Thread Bear's Picnic talks about boot weather and bespoke laces and the Knitting & Stitching Show

Turtleknits posts some more pictures of France and shows some Finished Objects

Undermeoxter blogs more about Rhinebeck; Sheep to Shawl competition; the Colours of Rhinebeck and varieties of Pumpkins

Wirewrapped shows an Art Nouveau or Secession inspired piece; a red steampunk egg; Big Blue Heart; Jasper Pendant

Woolly Knits has good and bad news

The Woolly Way of Ireland has an update on the Knitting & Stitching Show (I think I blogged this last week, but just making sure); A Dyeing Fabric and Thread workshop in Cork; A multicultural Women's Quilting Group in Coleraine; A Quilt exhibition in Northern Ireland on the Human cost of war (with some associated workshops) and The Cottonwood Tree shop in Kildare

WyvernfriendKnits I explain why I didn't go to the Knitting & Stitching show this year

Yarn Classes has another dive on the Crochet Reef (they're also looking for a home for this!) and does a haunted Trail Trial

Looking at posts there will be more about the Knitting & Stitching Show next week!

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Crafty Blogging 17th-23rd October

2Knitornot2Knit is preparing for craft fairs and feeling a bit overworked

Akka Design has more photos from her French Trip; Rain gets in the way; more French photos; a French headboard; some windows; some terracotta images and a door covered with vines

Amazed Knitter's Patterns links to a yarn processing video and shows some works in practice

An Apology for an Idler finishes a snuggly jumper

An evening Wasted with does some LARPing and has lace knitting mistaken for Fair Isle and reviews The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd

An Snag Breac Beo has alarming news that the Irish Revenue Service have a sense of humour

Aranbrew attends a beer fest in Galway

Basilexplosion has some scones; features a poster with various typography and a poster about Charles Darwin and Marriage

Beckydazzler features the face of this winter

Bola de Berlin knits some stuff for a baby

CarbonfootprintProject had a knit in on Saturday, a seasonal picture

Cattaphilla dreaming is preparing for the Winter with some lavender bags and wool bags

Chebe has some interesting links and some temperature sensing with the Lillypad Array

ChicwithStix has startitis and talks autumn knitting (I don't know about anyone else but the current weather has me thinking knitting! Wyvernfriend)

Clasheen gushes about visiting Rhinebeck and shares some pictures of a bag workshop

Dispatches from the Deise gets a blog award and nominates some others and knits some legwarmers and rips a jumper

 

 

 

Crafty Blogging 17th-23rd October

I started this yesterday but the machine crashed, taking everything with it, including what I had done to that point. *grrrr*

2Knitornot2Knit is getting herself prepared for the season

AkkaDesign has further pictures of her trip in France, inspiring stuff, great eye

Amazed Knitter's Designs sends her yarn off for processing, has a link to how that works and some work in progress

An Apology for an idler plays catchup with a top, Juggling Pigs posts a finished Mobius and a snuggly jumper

An Evening Wasted with has larping and lace mistaken for fair isle and a book review

An Snag Breac Beo finds to her shock that the Revenue Comissioners have a sense of humour

Aranbrew helps brew Viking Beer

Basilexplosion makes scones; has an interesting typography geek poster and posts a copy of Darwin's pros and cons about marriage

Beckydazzler talks about the look for this winter

Bola de Berlin does some baby knitting

Carbonfootprint Project talks about a knit-in

Cattaphilla Designs has some lavender and felt bags and some nice pictures

Chebe has some interesting links and a program for the LillyPad for a temperature sensor

ChicwithStix admits to startitis and shows off some pretty knitting

Clasheen gushes about Rhinebeck and thanks for her experience in the US and shows some pictures of some felted bags.

Dispatches from the Deise gets a blog award and makes some legwarmers and rips a jumper

Dragonstardays photographs some motorcycle helmets

DroimanUan has a finished scarf and dyes more fleece

Duilleoga finishes a wine cowl

Etsy Ireland have their Crafty News Desk; mentions art classes in the University of Limerick; have a handmade spark competition; mentions a Knitting & Stitching Show opportunity; mentions the comfort challenge winner; does a natural treatments post; has a fab Pumpkin Friday and has tea and chat with Ruth from Nice Day Designs

Halfadreamaway has a photo from a shoot in Charleville Castle

Happy Heart=Happy Soul has a creative Thursday

Humble Pie decides to consult medics and go caving

Irish Muses is still playing with her new cutter ; gets a nice parcel in the post and has a giveaway

Kersti is entertained to eat a Lord's Apples

Knit Inc declares that she's a Scrubber

Knitting Elizabeth has ChicwithStix admitting to a slow-going project

Knitting Neels shows how autumn is for knitting and talks about cycling and music

Lets Knit and Stitch have a new crocheted pattern

Limerick Live talks about returning and about her trip to Germany (in German, gist arrived at via Google Translate)

Little Hare captures a rare togetherness moment

Margie's Crafts announces the winner of her competition

Miss Aine dresses a princess; was at a crafty market ; makes some elves and has a photo of some dance moves

My life in Ireland is planning an Ikea raid

Morg enjoys his anniversary loot; receives a mystery parcel; finds Reeses Pieces; buys some older Disney films; reviews his Baboro experience; and more about the Baboro experience; Links to Alma by Rodrigo Blaas; makes an origami Stegosaurus and shows off a Mosasaur plushie he made

Neen does some crochet, models and celebrates her wedding anniversary; makes some christmassy egg cosies and teases; then she shows off her new skirt

NicKnits shows some cute crocheted booties

Rubysasha works away at her Princess shawl

Selkie receives another order

Sheknitupthatball remembers a crafty day last November and launches her new Leaving on the edge cowl

Springstitches has a winter project wishlist and talks about the knitting and stitching show

StarvingartistInk has an (autoplaying) video of her pregnancy etc and shows some sales stuff

Stolen Stitches talks about how to get her patterns wholesale

The Nest has some pictures of October and makes a crochet tea cosy, biscuits and other crafts

Things that Strike me talks property; and darkening evenings

This is Knit has a competition for Knitting & Stitching Show tickets and announces winners

Thread Bear's Picnic has a tidy; wings it; browses some (Irish) patterns; puts some ears on a headband and talks comfort and comfort food

Where People Create has the studio of Missy Bonkers

Winona Queen makes something that looks like bacon and makes a different hat

Woolly Bits does some dyeing and cooking

Woolly Way links to a design week; the threads of feeling or foundling museum and an update on the knitting and stitching show

Yarn Classes has a new cowl

Monday, October 18, 2010

Crafty blogging 10th-16th October

Apologies for the lateness of the post I was at a convention all weekend and am wiped out!

Akka Design finds two Polish paper cuts found in a market

Amazed Knitter's Patterns goes Mushroom Hunting (with a camera)

An Evening Wasted with has a minor accident that interferes with plans; has a productive day all the same; plans for the weekend which includes knitting plans and reviews a book; finishes the planned knitting and another book and picks up buttons for the project and more supplies for the weekend

Aran Brew shares an Android chart

BasilExplosion makes a quiche; has some lovely photos of the semi-Indian Summer that happened last week and shares a great wedding invite

Bola de Berlin knits for children

Carbonfootprintproject has some sheep photos and working on spinning wheels; and has some Clonmany Capers

Chebe talks about new Lillypad components; Women who rock and linkspam

Chicwithstix talks about 10.10.10 and confesses to startitis

Clasheen has some fun with Horst; has some more workshops and plans to head off to Rhinebeck

Craftobsession talks about what she's done since her last post showing off some handspun and some felting (it's in Polish, Google translate is my best friend)

Daffodils and Dandelions talks about the Chilean Miners

Dispatches from the Deise makes some Apple Jelly and shares the recipe

Dragondays has a shot of a car park in Letterkenny

DroimAnUan does some spinning and dying

Duilleoga has some crocheted flowers; makes some scarves from Creative Can Can and has cookies, sisters and falling down

Etsy Ireland has news from the crafty news desk; puts out a call for all members; talks about a meetup in the Market Bar, Dublin; has a treasury challenge; talks about National Wool Week in the UK; and has a Friday Fab Five

From sheep to shawl has a picture of Johnny's House and Wall

Half a Dream Away has a picturesque hill; a sepia tone shot of Dublin from the Dublin Eye and a dejected looking blue penguin

Herborium prepares for gourd painting; does a leaf study and finishes the gourd painting

Irish Muse sees the first journeys of her cutter; visits Dublin while it also travels through Dublin; it arrives; announces a winner and does a tutorial in the use of the Go Cutter

Kersti admires a pair of knitted baby booties; and makes a crocheted mobius neckwarmer

Knit Inc frees her needles from a pair of socks

Knittingneels captures Autumn

Lets Knit and stitch knit more parts of their crib

Limerick Live is enjoying her trip to her other home, Bremen

Little hare has to postpone a birthday and goes to a wedding (and recounts a blessing of the hands that's very touching)

Miss Aine has an Etsy Treasury appearance and finishes her Christmas Trio

My life in Ireland wonders why the time flew and deals with a lot of soccer

Neen Crochet has Autumn, Art and lots of Pumpkins; has unfortunately had nastiness make her stop teaching at a centre and happiness with a wedding anniversary

NicKnits celebrates 101010 and an FO

Rubysasha blocks a colourful wrap and finishes a Peerie Shawl (if you look at nothing else!)

Selkieknits makes more wristwarmers and then makes some nice ones for herself

Sheknitupthatball talks about moving her website; about tweaking that website, the most successful scarf ever and general news and sheep species

Stolenstitches announces the competition winners

String Revolution has an ethical dilemma that involves cultural appropriation

The nest has adventures with a plaster and a burn

Things that strike me is back to playing with a cookbook; wonders about negative equity

This is knit detail some of the classes they had space in the last week. (these are fairly regular classes so if any of them interest you, you should contact them! Me? Try to butter up my dealers? Who me?)

Thread Bear Picnic is/was in search of a tech editor; has a yarn happy moment; wonders about how to pronounce Filet Crochet and gets inspiration from Baz Lurman (without any hook in hand!)

Valentinas room visits the Dublin Flea Market

Wendy's Stuff talks muscle memory

Woolly Bits explores some Halloween Patterns

Woolly Way talks about a felting class in Kerry; Tailor Dummies or Dress Stands needed for a project in Munster; A talk on curating textiles sponsored by the NAtional Craft Gallery ; the Knitting & Stitching Show; and Shauna Richardsons Crochetdermy

Yarn Classes talks crochet classes and a twisty scarf pattern

 

 

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Craft blog update 3rd-9th October

Akka Designs has some interesting photographs of Barcelona, Weekend Walk 2; Weekend Walk 3; Weekend Walk 4

An Evening Wasted with finishes socks and bakes, cooks and parties; Lists her September reading; Misses sock knitting

Ankonymous customises a macbook

Aranbrew talks about knitted comfort

Basil Explosion links to the Happiness Project; posts some amazing food she's found this week; talks prototypes and presents; has some photographs of Marlay Park and celebrates John Lennon's Birthday

BeckyDazzler has some photographs that while summer are slightly wintry

Bola de Berlin photographs a knitted beehive hat

Carbonfootprintproject talks sock kits and graphs to think about

Cattaphilla has a little rant about early Christmas and sadly says goodbye to her Welsh Collie

Chebe talks about bash string variable mangling and new lillypad components

Chicwithstix talks about social knitworking and has some interesting points

Clasheen talks about a San Francisco workshop and shows some results

Daffodils and Dandelions tries to encourage herself to ignore the beauties of autumn to do needed paperwork

Dispatches from the Deise has alternator trouble on the trip back from Dublin

Dragondays has some Donegal Anchor pictures

DroimAnUan rounds up her September and start of October with a long post

Duilleoga has some adventures in Wool and wishes that things weren't all doom and gloom

Etsy Ireland has their Crafty News Desk; a new Derry Market; shows some team treasuries; has some amusing suggestions for crafty activities for politicians; changes it's Dublin Meeting venue; has a floral fab friday and has tea and chat with Rachel from Balanced

From Sheep To Shawl has an upcycled foxford blanket front and back needle felted and made into a coat

Half a Dream Away has a montage of photographs from a new craft shop in Glasgow; a sweet penguin photo; and has a lovely green hill photo (your editor does admit to a bias towards her photographs)

Irish Muses announces her Miniatures in Minutes winner; talks about a new giveaway ; wins an earlier competition from the same site; is still happy the next day and talks about another competition

Kizuta visits the Aran Islands on a holiday

Knit Inc (who also works with this blog) finishes another cloth and a sock

Knitting Neels looks like her current project is nearly finished and swatches

Limerick Live is looking forward to a holiday in Bremen (in German, google translate is my friend)

Little Hare enjoys the small things

Miss Aine has a preview of new patterns

Morg prepares for an exhibition

Neen teaches some crochet and makes some hats and talks about breast cancer

Pippablue talks about new Amy Butler Laminated cotton

Playing with Fi(b)re shows off some hats

Selkie's Crochet has a delivery from Springwools and new fingerless gloves and talks about the effect being featured on a treasury can have on Etsy sales

She Knit up that Blog moves her blog to here has a grand opening post; has a grey baby jacket and a multi-coloured cuff-to-cuff jacket; her announcement of the move is here with some housekeeping details from the old blog

Slickfixation admires some Azzaro Spring designs

Springwools talks Breast Cancer patterns and a I'm hot for Vampires Scarf kit

Starving Artists Ink talks about autumn and life and the simple things

Stitchlily talks about a Film Job

String Revolution talks about what she does.

The Bohomama is busy

The Nest works on the studio; and harvests a last rose

Things that strike me talks political reform; is not impressed with the 10:10 environmental campaign; Saw Jean Michel Jarre at the O2 (about which I'm jealous! ed.) has an unpleasant experience clothes shopping and visits past cosmetics and perfumes finding both good and bad there

Thread Bear's Picnic celebrates her yarn-plosion; searches for a lost project and designs a new crochet sock

Valentina's Room shows some Collages of some stuff she's done

Wendy's Stuff has to add a captha (we seem to be creating some traffic for people! Sorry that it's causing problems but glad that the project is working! ed.) and reworks the end of a cloche

Amg-Arts has a video of a guest book

Woolly Bits has some fo's, some spinning, some harvesting; plays with textiles and talks about mixed colours and designing placemats

The Woolly Way of Ireland talks about the Golden Fleece Award; Delightful Digital Cushions; a Workshop with Carol Feller that was on yesterday; A Batik workshop with the National Print Museum; Reflections of an Indian Journey talk; Needle Felting for beginners course in Kerry and a Vintage Fashion and Decor Fair in Dun Laoghaire

Yarn Classes has new classes starting next week

Because the next update will be on the 16th

Stolen Stitches has a competition for the last pattern to go into her new booklet

As always we are always willing to remove people from the list or add anyone else you think should be here!

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Hospice Knitting Update

Just a quick update on the hospice craft sale. Anyone who is crafting for the hospice can get 10% off all yarn in NewsRead in Superquinn Shopping Centre, Blanchardstown until the end of Nov if they mention they are crafting for the hospice.
So now there's no excuse not to make something!
Thanks very much to NewsRead for their support.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Crafting posts 26th September to 2nd October

You may notice that the order of posts is a little different, I sorted  the listing of Irish Threadcraft Bloggers (and if you know more feel free to comment or email us).

2Knitornot2knit has some Tuesday Treasuries, some nice autumnal/wintry stuff there and mentions a monthly Craft Fair in the Milk Market in Limerick

Akkadesign has some labyrinths from an exhibition and some advice about labyrinths and photographs of some very tall people sculptures in Barcelona

Amazedknitting apologises for being missing in September and shares some photography and poetry

An Evening Wasted with has Kittens, more Kittens with some reading and kittens and knitting

Aranbrew visits Deevey's Yarn shop in Kilkenny

Basilexplosion shares more about her trip to Greece; visits the Dublin Flea Market and goes to the Divine Comedy in the Olympia

BeckyDazzler talks about the changing weather

Bola de Berlin's son has his first haircut

Carbonfootprintproject announced a spining session (and has a pretty spindle pictured); talks science (with an image of the molecular structure of wool); was interviewed by Nick Hand and had a stitching session that included someone on skype

Chebe has more fun with embroidery and makes an LED soft-circuit

Chicwithknits posts her version of the Prada Headband and wonders about social knitworking eating into her knitting time (and has some valid and interesting points to make)

Clasheen seems to be having great fun on her teaching trip and shows some great bags in progress and some scarves in San Francisco

The Clones Lace blog has a heading about Travelling the world with Clones Lace

Dispatches from the Deise talks typo crime scenes and a visit to Dublin

Dragon Days has a photograph of a solar and windpowered street light in Killybegs County Donegal

Etsy Ireland has a newsdesk; tells you how to plait onions; does some autumnal team treasuries; talks about some anniversary present ideas; has a purple fab five and talks about a claiming the future event upcoming in the RDS

From Sheep to Shawl is in Killarney for Culture Night and teaches a felting class there

Half a dream away has a grumpy sealion; some beautifully red leaves and a cute red panda

Happy Heart = Happy Soul features an interesting poster about life

Herborium paints some chestnuts

Irish Muses has a Miniatures in Minutes giveaway; shares her October Star with us and has a Fall into Fall Giveaway

John the Bad talks about Cowen Leaving

Kersti wonders about blogging

Knit Inc. is knitting a storm for charity, this week starts with a hot water bottle and makes some beautiful dishcloths

On Knitting Elizabeth Teaandcakes talkes about enjoying reading Elizabeth and some Baby Elizabeth knits

Knitting Neels visits the Dublin Flea Market and shows some progress on Peasy

Lets Knit and Stitch had a Tea Party, donated yarn is heading for Uganda

Limerick "live" had a good relaxed weekend and models her new glasses (as far as I understand with help from Google Translate)

Little Hare has some little Piggies and talks about things 34 million can't buy

LivingthesimplelifeIwant talks about food waste and her grocery spend

Margie Crafts talks about doll making

Michellemadethis was on TV on Thursday

Miss Aine has a teaser and then the Bear appears

Mitt liv på Irland, My life in Ireland gets back online

Morg Today talks cassettes and Mix tapes and Bazinga

Ms Walsh has a powercut and tries to survive without some of the modern distractions

NeenCrochet has a surprise party; makes a handmade flower brooch and makes some crochet hats

Niamh is Knitting is planning a dress and is photographed in a handmade top

NicKnits' screen capture from the previous week is carefully edited

Rubysasha finishes a Hap Blanket and plans a hap cardigan

SheknitupthatBall was very productive and makes a handspun Urchin, a Calorimetry; an Irish Sign; Dishcloths and finishes up a baby blanket

Starvingartistink talks about a month of baby and posts a video of her talking

Stitchlily talks about the Crochet Coral Reef

Stolen Stitches offers a glimpse of her new booklet. and mentions a class in Craft Alley next Saturday

String Revolution works on some secret crowns and capes and talks about something she worked on many years ago

The Nest works on simplifying her life

Things that strike me is looking for somewhere to rent; talks about things to do; talks about the Green Party in Government; and rips back part of her cardigan

This is Knit talks about Naturespun Paper Dolls and a Socks Class that was on yesterday

Thread Bear's Picnic goes blackberrying

Winona Queen felts a hat and pictures of before and after

The Woolly Way talks about Margie's Crafts and the Pink Auction Cork

Wyvernfriendknits (yes me) posts photographs of socks I finished last week

Yarn Classes blogged about Tapestry Vessels and  congregating in Tinahely and about being at home with tapestry but I don't remember noting them last week