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San Francisco – Yarn Heaven!

04.22.2015 by Elsie Pop // Leave a Comment

Variegated yarns, Imagiknit

San Francisco has to be one of my favourite places in the world, so I was delighted when we managed to shoehorn it into our recent holiday to the USA. When I say shoehorn it in, I mean it – we had already decided to go to Florida, so we decided it would be the […]

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Finding colour inspiration in the sun.

04.15.2015 by Elsie Pop // 2 Comments

Sunset on Anna Maria Island

So I’ve just about recovered from the jetlag from our recent amazing holiday to the USA. For some reason this time the jetlag was horrendous on the way back – a combination of three different time zones, a daylight saving clock change and one of the worst long haul flights I’ve ever been on on […]

Categories // Travel Tags // art deco, color, colour, colour inspiration, florida, holiday, photography, project planning, sunset, vacation

Crochet blankets – my guilty pleasure!

03.17.2015 by Elsie Pop // 1 Comment

Sophie's Universe CAL work in progress

I think I might have a crochet blanket problem. Whenever I’m under any stress I seem to get a compelling urge to create, and the only thing I seem to obsess about is blankets! As we’re about to jet off on holiday and I have a lot of work on in the day job, I’ve […]

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The week of many yarn crafts!

03.08.2015 by Elsie Pop // 22 Comments

Brother KH-881 knitting machine

It’s been quite the week! Last I wrote I was busy setting up my craft room to prepare for the arrival of my knitting machine. I finally got my hands on it on Monday – and while this is super exciting, I was too scared to touch it for a day! I worked the day […]

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Setting up my craft space – work in progress!

02.28.2015 by Elsie Pop // 16 Comments

So after my accidental knitting machine purchase last Saturday I realised – I had nowhere to put it when it arrives! I have wanted to sort out a dedicated craft space in our house for a while, but this was just the push I needed to get it done. How it’s looking so far (complete […]

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Unravel 2015

02.22.2015 by Elsie Pop // 7 Comments

Pretty Fleece

  I think Unravel might be my favourite craft show! I suspected this might be the case last year but I was still very new to the craft show circuit – returning this year has cemented its place as #1 so far. This year’s Unravel new came at the perfect time for me personally as […]

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Remembrance Poppy Crochet Pattern

10.31.2014 by Elsie Pop // 4 Comments

The WW1 centenary test this year has definitely made me think about the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal a lot. I buy my paper poppies every year, and within seconds of pinning them on they are ripped off my lapel by a rogue bag strap or scarf and I can’t Self show wholesale jerseys my […]

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Knitting Kittens and Self Indulgent Crochet

10.24.2014 by Elsie Pop // Leave a Comment

It’s been a crafty couple of weeks! Last Wednesday I went along to the first ever Knitting Kittens event at Battersea Dogs & Cats Home – it was amazing! After I’d stopped cooing over the gorgeous cats, I settled down to give my friend a crochet lesson, which turned into ???? a group lesson! wholesale MLB […]

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The Knitting and Stitching Show 2014

10.15.2014 by Elsie Pop // Leave a Comment

At the weekend I had the pleasure of trekking up to Alexandra Palace (quite wholesale nfl jerseys a feat from Surrey on a Sunday, I tell you!) for my first Knitting and Stitching Show. Having attended both Unravel and cheap jerseys the Hobby Crafts show this year I Gunung thought I knew the drill for these […]

Categories // Events Tags // craft shows, crochet, events, knitting, knitting and stitching show

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