Crafty Blog Update 10th-16th April

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 set up a Netvibes Page for the blogs this is not foolproof and I may miss updates but it’s been better than some of the other options.  I have also decided that if a blog posts more than about 10 or so posts in a week I’m just going to link to the site, unless something in particular catches my eye that’s very craft related. You may notice that some posts from Sundays have been repeated, this is if there is time-sensitive information included in them, this does sometimes lead to repeated links from the previous week.

2 Knit or not 2 Knit has internet issues and teaches spinning; shows off a finished felted bag and is clearing out some of her book stash

Akka Designs photographs wisteria

An Apology for an Idler shares the knitted petrol station and talks about double-standards

Ankomymous has her camera die

As the World Falls Down studies in Camden Library; got a first acceptance; sits among clothes and visits IKEA

Basil Explosion shares some flowers; makes some Spelt Bread; shares an old letter; shares an animated video and Robert Ebert remaking his voice

Beckydazzler has a trip to RTE

Bola de Berlin makes a shawl for a friend

Cattapilla Designs defeats slugs and has a few items off the needles

Celtic Knots decorates t-shirts and makes cards

Celtic Memory Yarns finds some ancient stones, and gives the birds some yarn

Chebe shares some different events;fixes her uno and plays with the miniPOV3 kit

Chocolattebuttons gets some photographs of playing with yarn

Clarita visits Edinborough

Clasheen has Michigan Workshop update and a short book update; gets and likes some experimental yarn; talks about a workshop and shares a finished bag; finishes a scarf

Colour and Ink makes a cuppa tea card; a friend card; gets some photo inspiration

Crafty Alley announces some Easter Camps

Dispatches from the Deise goes to a launch

Dragondays photographs some bubblewrap

Droim an Uan finishes a woven project

Etsy Ireland selects a team treasury challenge winner; does their Crafty News Desk; welcomes new team members; has some team treasuries; has a quick note about Dublin Market; talks about a field trip and has a fab five on Friday

Fly Along makes some potholders

From Sheep to Shawl has a felting class in Killarney and shows off completed bags

Handmaiden of Adonai has two observations

Happy Heart, Happy Soul shares a yellow door

Haz wool will knit knits a pirate jumper

Irish Muses has a guest post; has a second march star; a recipe and surprise

Kay B gets some more finished projects done

Kersti shares her tweet week; has to wear a boot to help her foot and gets revenge for spam

Knit Inc talks about fickleness

Little Hare photographs a little foal

Margie's Crafts attends the Dali Lama's speech

Milkmoon has a beastly giveaway

Miss Aine makes a sweater for her daughter; makes some Baby Bunting; makes a monster; makes some Easter Bunnies  and makes a fat ted

Needles and Haystacks conquers the weekend bag

Neen Crochet announces a winner

Nic Knits apologises for not posting

Rubysasha finishes a shawl and starts a new one

The Runcible Spoon makes simply delicious fish

The Siegel Six has several updates

Stitchlily has an update on the story of Lace

Stuff and nonsense does a quick update

This and that talks about Uri and the girl with mousy hair

This is Knit start selling patterns from Ravelry (one of a few in the world testing this!) and does a sneak preview of the next classes

Thread Bear Picnics writes an ode to lost Malabrigo

Undermeoxter talks style-wise; how a project doesn't cooperate; how to cheat at crochet and a stash flash-back

Yarn Classes completes a summer throw; creates some plarn and talks about music

Where there's a Wool shares a knitting bag

Wirewrapped Jewellery shows a gothic red egg; makes some custom earrings; Ice white agate pendant; fluorite and silver pendant; small green steampunk pendant; a custom red and silver heart and a purple agate oval necklace

Woolly Way of Ireland has another update on the panceltic festival and lace; an exploring conceptions of contemporary craft in Cork; Stitch & Creative Crafts Show in Belfast; now and then in Cork and Branching Out patchwork in Dublin