Monday, June 27, 2011

crafty blog update 12th-25th June 2011

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. From this week for the foreseeable future I'm going to do this fortnightly.  It's consuming too much time that Summer is suggesting I should spend outdoors in our garden!

2 Knit or not 2 Knit finds one of the best;

40 plus teenager had a busy week and talks about midsummer

Akka Designs finds some interesting graffiti; plays with screenprinting; has a Sunday walk; weaves and makes some cushions; an urban hammock and finishes official schooling

All Things Beautiful talks about Midsummer and announces a consolidation of blogs

An Apology for an Idler works on her sister's jumper; finishes and shares a pattern for a hat; celebrates her 21st

Ankonymous wonders who she should trust

An Snag Breac Beo photographs the Lunar Eclipse; finishes a cardigan; designs a KnitCam

As the World Turns plans to leave Ireland; makes some personal progress; links to a set list; gets exam results; plans to create a new blog; is finding it hard to wind up life in Ireland; arrives in London

Basilexposition talks about The Room; talks about Defending the Guilty; goes to Bob Dylan; talks about Ray Davies; goes to Women War Artists; and goes to the Cult of Beauty

Beckydazzler attends the River Island Press Day and shares some favourites from the NCAD graduate show

Cattapilla Designs reviews the Joy of Knitting and finishes some items; photographs a stone wall; has sun and showers

Chebe gets a top finished; wonders about some coding on a website; makes a money bag; finishes a top that takes a while and does an upgrade

Chocolattebuttons talks about her children; is proud of her sons results; feels a bit down; her daughter calls a pink a new name

Clasheen has a long day with surprises; does a quick update; photographs happy faces after a workshop; more photographs from the workshop and plays with dye

Colour and Ink makes a Monster Thanks Card; tries a new technique; wishes Happy Father's Day; makes a for some Bunny Special Card; makes a congratulations card; a stars and stripes card; a stars and stripes birthday card and photographs a Currach race

Constant Knitter links to new patterns from Drops; gets new colours in Manos Laceweight and photographs the Manos Laceweight

Darling Wolfeyes photographs nails; thinks about using the Oil Cleansing Method; has an homage to Plants versus Zombies; crochets a Ladybird hat; talks about JR Ward's Dark Lover and about Lover Eternal

Dispatches from the Deise tries out Tumblr and has a reunion

Doogarry has surreptitious stash enhancement and finishes the shawl called Doogarry

Dragonday photographs a car ventilator and rocks in the Grass

Dublin Knit Collective talks about the Party Lace Along

Duilleoga works with her slow cooker; gets a green teapot; has a pink rose and a white fuschia

Etsy Ireland has a crafty news desk; welcomes new members; a treasury challenge with a twist; fab five on Friday; tea and chat with Spleodar; needs some help; welcomes new members; crafty news desk; skills swap; fab five on Friday

Evening Wasted With shares an recipe

Feanor Crafts creates a Facebook and Twitter account

Felting my way across Kerry is run of their feet

Froggy's Craft finishes a witch's hood and Elise Scarf and celebrates her blog's first anniversary

Green Waves talks about herself; photographs Kerry skies; links to some things; yellow light and raspberry soup

Half a Dream Away photographs poppies and beside a railway

Haz wool will knit visits an exhibit of 50s and 60s Irish fashion

Herborium paints Gianni's Red Currants

Irish Muses blogs about a terrific giveaway; more news about Dougal; has a birthday; announces a beam and read blog hop; nominates a June Star

Kersti blogs her tweet week; talks about how to give an animal a pill; drops her phone down the loo; blogs her tweet week and iPhone turns a bad experience good

Kizuta has a bit of a catchup and talks about a Driving Licence

Knit Inc talks about the World Wide Knit in Public Day; wonders about cotton picking in Uzbekistan; celebrates an early birthday; makes star booties; reviews Knit One, Knit All

Knitting Elizabeth Sinead makes booties 

Knitting Neels makes a bias skirt; makes a dress and works on an Anna Camisole

Limerick Live is glad of bright days and is nervous

Little Hare is away for a while and links to a Sacred Heart Novena

Margie's Crafts talks about baskets; a pre-wedding BBQ; a midsummer wedding; Isla at 11 months

Michelle Made This plays with pink roses

Milkmoon photographs a cold midsummer; photographs some school art; milkmoon kittens at Wimbeldon

Miss Aine had a customer featured in a DIY wedding site and gives a free Lion pattern

Mit Liv pa Irland talks about the changeable weather

Morg Today talks about Robin Williams and Zelda Williams and new promos; listening to Lisa Hannigan and is reading In God we Trust

NicKnits talks about a car game

One of these Days gets a job with Prosperity and updates on her WIPs

Pippablue talks about a Japanese Fabric Swap

Playing with fib(r)e sews up some project bags

Rubysasha has several finished objects

Runcible Spoon has a family dinner out

Scratch Card Junkie talks about cool stuff seen on holidays

Selkies Crochet has health woes and gets some crochet done

She Knit up that Ball asks why you knit and finishes a scroll lace shawl

Siegel Six has many updates

String Revolution talks about 100 acts of String Revolution

Things that strike me talks about the Irish and Late Nights; how hard it is to visit the past; about the Irish and languages; is looking for online development environment; wonders if we want an economic recovery; has a gardening update and has a Newquay travel advisory

This is Knit talks about the World Wide Knit in Public Day; talks about a knitter's progress; talks about a project with a little bit of lace; another knitter's progress

Turk's Tuck works on dough; swears off cupcakes; makes chocolate orange cupcakes

Under me oxter finishes Leafing it; has a stalled hat; finds a deserted hotel; translates knitting for runners

Where there's a Wool has some fun in Dublin and can't stand the rain

Wirewrapped makes a morningstar pendant and plans geek convention attendance

With Needles and Wool makes her first Crochet block

Woolly Bits tries a change of setup and tries out beads

Woolly Way of Ireland talks about a felting and figurative Workshop in Mayo

Woolly Winged Gathering announces a meetup

Wyvernfriendknits reviews Ethnic Knitting Exploration

Yarn Classes talks about the Week that was; reports some sheep rustling and makes some flowers

Zen.org is almost finshed one project and plans a scarf as a gift (which became the Party Knit Along);  and finishes the hat

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Crafty Blog Update 12th-25th June

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. From this week for the foreseeable future I'm going to do this fortnightly.  It's consuming too much time that Summer is suggesting I should spend outdoors in our garden!

Akka Designs finds some interesting graffiti; plays with screenprinting; has a Sunday walk; weaves and makes some cushions; an urban hammock and finishes official schooling

An Snag Breac Beo photographs the Lunar Eclipse; finishes a cardigan; designs a KnitCam

Basilexposition talks about The Room; talks about Defending the Guilty; goes to Bob Dylan; talks about Ray Davies; goes to Women War Artists; and goes to the Cult of Beauty

Chebe gets a top finished; wonders about some coding on a website; makes a money bag; finishes a top that takes a while and does an upgrade

Colour and Ink makes a Monster Thanks Card; tries a new technique; wishes Happy Father's Day; makes a for some Bunny Special Card; makes a congratulations card; a stars and stripes card; a stars and stripes birthday card and photographs a Currach race

Etsy Ireland has a crafty news desk; welcomes new members; a treasury challenge with a twist; fab five on Friday; tea and chat with Spleodar; needs some help; welcomes new members; crafty news desk; skills swap; fab five on Friday

Half a Dream Away photographs poppies and beside a railway

Limerick Live is glad of bright days and is nervous

Michelle Made This plays with pink roses

Miss Aine had a customer featured in a DIY wedding site and gives a free Lion pattern

NicKnits talks about a car game

Selkies Crochet has health woes and gets some crochet done

Wirewrapped makes a morningstar pendant and plans geek convention attendance

Woolly Way of Ireland talks about a felting and figurative Workshop in Mayo

 

Monday, June 13, 2011

Crafty Blog Update 22nd May - 11th June

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. From this week for the foreseeable future I'm going to do this fortnightly.  It's consuming too much time that Summer is suggesting I should spend outdoors in our garden!

As I was surfing recently I came across a new Irish Online Crafting Magazine

2 Knit or Not 2 Knit shares a poem and talks about Polish Sheep

The 40 Plus Teenager celebrates a New Year

An Apology for an Idlerfinishes exams and a few pieces; has some grumbles; finishes a jumper and a pair of gloves; and reviews X:Men First Class

An Evening Wasted With lists May's Read books

Ankonymous captures German Romance

An Snag Breac Beo talks about Ovine, equine, cervine; announces an exhibit; has the opening and announces a peg loom workshop

Aran Brew makes a lace Flower; does some gardening and makes some Elderflower cordial

As the World Falls Down finishes college; shares a video; decides to assert herself; has writer's block; is feeling restless; talks about work; finds issue with a blog; feels alone; has tea; gets a job; spends a long time on busses and goes out

Basil Exposition reviews Through the Language Glass; makes Spiced Date and Orange Squares; reviews How to Live a Life of Montaigne; makes Chocolate Biscuit Cake; discusses that week's links; visits London; Robin Hitchcock plays Clear Spot at Relentless Garage; talks about the Quiet American and Meltdown 2011

Beckydazzler takes part in the NCAD show; returns to basics; returns to layers and borrows a sequined jacket

Bola de Berlin asks if May is nearly over; talks about friends in Ireland; visits London; celebrates a festival

Cattapilla Design talks about art for arts sake; takes part in a scavenger hunt; has some visitors; photographs some flowers and Bere Island foxgloves

C B Lindsay talks about fellow northern Irish Writer Maddie Stewart

Chebe writes an ap for her music player; works on her dress; learns more about CSS and S2; backs up LJ Scrapbook Pics; prepares for sewing

Chocolattebuttons makes a crochet dress and her family shares some Ice-Cream

Clasheen shares some workshop photographs; moves on with the workshops; has a workshop in Lexinton; has a fun time in KY; arrives home without her luggage; has a hectic life; has a bereavement; shares more photographs and ramps up preparations for the Horst Workshop

Clones Lace announces some workshops

Colour and Ink wishes a happy birthday to her son; makes some Butterfly Cards; makes a floral card; makes a card set; makes a teacher appreciation card; is published in Scrapbooking.com Magazine; makes a hydrangea card; things to do in Cork City over a weekend; Good Luck Day 1; Good Luck Day 2; Waltzingmouse Case Competition; Good Luck Day 3; paperplay father's Day/Man Card and Paper Crafts Magazine Gallery Idol 2011

Constant Knitter makes an Echo Beach Stole; shares a knitting video; a new way of yarn cake making; gets in some blocking wires and talks about a program on RTE about knitting

Darling Wolf Moon makes a food oath; shares a bird cock; paints ladybird nails; talks metamorphosis and captures catepillars

Dispatches from the Deise sees Clapton in Concert and spotlights one of the citizens of Lismore;

Doogarry's Blog reclaims her knitting mojo; learns how to use blocking wires; welding meets Lace; changes her mind about what yarn to go with a project and finishes two more shawls

DragonDays photographs summer footwear; a reflector and a bathroom window

Droim an Uain makes two woven cushion fronts; weaves a third cushion front; photographs her Heleanthum; finishes the third cushion and has a dye day with Kathleen McCormick

Dublin Knit Collective talks about an active June and counts down to the WWKIP day

Duilleoga plays with photographs and photographs 2011 Lillies

Etsy Ireland have a crafty update; welcomes new members; talks about names; fab five on Friday; crafty news desk; welcomes new members; looks for articles; fab five on Friday; crafty news desk has a delay; welcomes new members; talk about a tea and chat; Crafty news Desk; talks about Bloomsday in Costume and Fab Five on Friday

Feanor Crafts makes some things from felt off-cuts and announces a sale

Felting my Way Across Kerry talks about an endless to-do list

Fly Along launches her Winter Thaw pattern

Froggy's Craft starts a swap; shares a new tattoo; finishes Eeyore; stitches vintage cross stitch and gets some projects framed

From Sheep to Shawl has a visit from some Parisian Upcycling Designers and a closer photograph

Green Waves shares holiday photographs; peace and other things; feels warm; talks about recent life; photographs the sea and is grateful

Half a Dream Away photographs distinctive trees; a graveyard; hens; the Bloom Festival; a red maple; one of the gardens and a red cloak

Handcrafted by Lily Smuul works on Kelmscott

Haz Wool Will Knit talks about a taste of Sardinia; gets some charity shop items; shares a literary knitter for June; makes some Elderflower Cordial and makes some petticoats

Herborium paints a Rose in IMMA

Irish Muses talks about Obama and embroidery; shares her latest quilt finish; has some comments problems; talks about a seafood in Dunfanaghy; selects a June Star; has some artistic inspiration; has some doggy news and is back from Dublin and has some dog pictures

Julle's World is happy with her son's progress and visits London

Kay B gets rid of some excess stash

Kersti shares her tweet week; and another week; a tatting pattern and another tweet week

Knit Inc finishes her granny square blanket; grows some plants; reviews Vogue Knitting Early Fall and talks about the World Wide Knit in Public Day

Knitting Neels is busy and gets ready for projects and gets some done and does some summer sewing

Laura Eliason talks about organising

Lets Knit & Stitch shares more from Vogue Knitting; Lauren's Can Can Bag and summer crochet workshops

Limerick Live makes some Eton Mess; after VIP visits there's Very Important Mug; her son has a not-so happy day; has a happy day; brings the cup for a trip and encounters uncertainty

Little Hare starts an Ascension Novena; continues with it; talks about lego building; had blue skies for a while; photographs a catepillar; waters plants; shares the Pope talking to Astronauts; there's some messy fun

Margie's Crafts photographs flowers in bloom

Michelle Made This has some floral loveliness; talks about a new magazine; talks about CD or Downloads; makes scones and cherry cup cakes and talks about doing

Milkmoon wonders if she missed anything

Miss Aine has a competition; another giveaway; announces the winnners; makes a cabled flying baby helmet; makes a pretty waistcoat; makes a pebble vest; sews a nursing dress and makes her first crocheted toy

Mitt liv på Irland, My life in Ireland was proud to be Irish; hopes Summer is coming and had 48 hours of Summer

Morgtoday has a birthday Dinner in Scotty's Steak House; listens to a lot of music; reads the Martian Chronicles and hopes to post more regularly

Ms Walsh gets a new baking gadget

Needles and Haystacks celebrates the third birthday of her twins; talks about changing relationships and celebrates her son's seventh birthday

Neencrochet talks about being 16 and now; wishes her husband a happy Birthday and photographs her week

The Nest has not enough hours; bogs and painting; shares polytunnel love; had a craving for Chocolate Cake; catches a swarm of bees; more paintings

NicKnits creates something from some Constant Knitter Yarns; starts a Howth Vest; talks about gardening and shares an Elephant pattern

One of these days shows progress on a piece

Pippablue talks about summer sewing

Playing with Fibre finds herself easily influenced; finishes some Baby Knits; self-medicates with knitting; describes the way to a Knitter's Heart; spinning artefacts at the National Museum II; welcomes rain;

Rubysasha finishes some pieces

The Runcible Spoon misses Bloom already and makes a Rainy Sunday Brunch

Scratch Card Junkie shares a site and hates travelling (text may not be safe for work)

Selkie's Crochet works with wool

The Siegel Six has many updates

Spring stitches talks about the Cork World Wide Knit in Public Day and announces the details

String Revolution makes a beaded box and talks about string

Stuff and nonsense is inspired

This is Knit has a special Knit Night; shows some summer stripes; gets some new tools; wishes the Pepperpot a Happy Birthday; gets nostalgic about customers and talks about World Wide Knit in Public Day

Things that Strike me wonders why a password is necessary on her phone; talks about kniting; makes Donal Skeehan's Fishcakes; makes shortbread; finds her iPad a good thingmakes a bruschetta starter and grows strawberries

Undermeoxter does a May Round-up; adds to her stash; has some trials and tribulations; gets working on Turbine

Valentina's Room reads Roddy Doyle's Star Called Henry

Where people create shows 4Polinka's workspace

Where there's a Wool talks about Naturally Irish; talks about new and better days; from small acorns; starts over

Wire Wrapped makes some earrings; some steampunk pendants; a gothic necklace; a steampunk necklace and lampwork beads

With Needles and Wool talks about what's in their knitting bag and learns how to crochet;

Woolly Bits puts stale coffee to good use and talks about the June Bank Holiday

Woollies, rags baubles and bags makes some cottage curtains

Woolly Way of Ireland talks about Crafting an exhibit in Cork; a wet felting workshop in Mayo; summer sewing workshops in Dublin; Tapestry Exhibit in Kilkenny; World Wide Knit in Public Day in Tipperary; Silk Fiber Papermaking in Dublin and Winnie's Craft Cafe information

Woolly Winged Gathering announces a drop spindle class and bids farewell to spring

Yarnboi has a quick update

Yarn Classes talks about Danish Felt Chicks; is inspired by the sea; gets a gift; makes a sea-inspired lap blanket and plays with colours

Zen.org finishes his scarf

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Crafty Blog Update 22nd May - 11th June

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. From this week for the foreseeable future I'm going to do this fortnightly.  It's consuming too much time that Summer is suggesting I should spend outdoors in our garden!

As I was surfing recently I came across a new Irish Online Crafting Magazine

 

Aran Brew makes a lace Flower; does some gardening and makes some Elderflower cordial

Feanor Crafts makes some things from felt off-cuts and announces a sale

 

 

 

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

What are you doing this Saturday?


World Wide Knit in Public Day
11 June 2011

This Saturday is World Wide Knit in public day, and there are events taking place in several locations.

Dublin:

Powerscourt Centre Balcony from 12pm and then on to St Stephens Green South Bandstand from 2pm, weather depending. This is Knit will be having special offers on some yarns, and raffle prizes!

Winnie’s Craft Cafe will be getting in on the fun of world wide knit in public on Saturday June 11th from 1.30 - 3.30pm. Come along and knit or crochet with other knitters. Hopefully the weather will be nice so people can sit at the tables outside the shop. There will be some special surprises on the day!

Clondalkin knitters are meeting on the green area at Floraville, opposite Clondalkin library at 10am. If it's raining then they will meet in the library itself.

Roscommon:

Lough Key Forest Park  The meet up point is very close to the car park to make it easy to set up.  Meet on the grass around the ruined church. On the map this is the little black box with a cross symbol, to the right of the word “centre”. You can park in the car park, it costs about 3 or 4 euro.

Another meet-up is taking place in the grounds of Roscommon Castle at 12.30pm.

Cork:

From 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., local knitters and crocheters will gather at Bishop Lucey Park for some public displays of craftiness. This event is open to all, especially knit, crochet, and fiber craft enthusiasts.

 

Belfast:

Meet at 2pm in the Botanical Gardens,  outside the palm house if dry, inside at the museum cafe if raining for some knitty fun!


So there's no excuse not to get out and about with your latest project! Make sure to bring something to sit on!