Another Jar!

Orders for my I Am Thankful jars are just coming in thick and fast.

Here is another one must finished for Pastor Penny, our Bishops wife at Ruach City Church, ordered by one of the staff team.

I love making these jars especially when I know the recipient as I can pack in the personalisation.

I have potentially another 13 orders so I need to drink more coffee!

Hope you like.

For Pastor Penny 

I Am Thankful

I was asked just before Christmas to make a couple of 'I Am Thankful' jars.

Since I'd never made one before, I had never really seen one I headed to the usual place for some inspiration. Actually I wasn't blown away with what I found.
In my mind if you are having something to sit on your self for a year and record all your lovely memories and things your are Thankful for then you want it to be a lovely thing! So I cracked on.

I made two for Christmas gifts for my lovely friends Debbie and Del and then the 2 that was ordered.

Of course I then wanted one for myself.

My coffee jars are mainly sourced from Jo at work so as a little thank you I made her one last weekend. It's sat on her desk at work for a couple of days and now I have an order for 2 more and potentially another 10. Here is the latest one made for Jo.

They have all been slightly different and with each one I just love them more and more. If you have an empty jar and a few bits and bobs and a couple of hours then have a go at making your very own memory jar.

Dies used for this project include a Tattered Lace die for the band round the jar and Tonic dies for the tags and alphabets, the flower is a Sizzix bigz die. The lush effect on the flower comes from the Indigo Blue pixi powders.

Happy Crafting x

Crazy Shapes Carousel Crochet Blanket

I love a ‘Crochet Along’. I found this batik style yarn and fell in love with it. I was swayed into this pattern when at the knitting and stitching show with Susan Speece. She has a good eye and thought it was very me so I took the plunge. Despite the varied shapes they all fit together very well. I love the riot of colours and shapes in this blanket. Thanks Susan for twisting my arm!

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Vintage Crochet Poncho

I love to crochet and I found this lovely vintage poncho pattern from Wonky Zebra, so thought I'd use up some of the yarn left over from other projects! I have to say getting to grips with a vintage pattern was a bit of a challenge at first and I've been crocheting all my life. Its a good job patterns have simplified over the years, it did make me wonder how folks are still crocheting when patterns were made so confusing! Anyway I'm so glad I persevered and once I understood the pattern it crocheted up quite quickly and

I now have a lovely poncho. The yarn is all Stylecraft, so washes and wears really well. Thanks Wonky Zebra.

Hello

Hi, welcome to my blog!

My name is Sue Hardman and I live and work in London, but I love crafting and would describe it as my hobby and passion.

I've been thinking about creating a blog for a couple of years  now, as an outlet to share my crafty thoughts but have been putting this off, to be honest computers and tech stuff is not my thing at all, however, material, yarn, paper, glue, paints and colouring pencils and all things shunkly, ARE MY THING! 

I have a passion for craft and think we should be sharing and passing these skills on.  It would seem now, in 2017 that social media plays a key role in this sharing business, and so to help ensure that craft doesn't disappear I'm doing my bit, I have to be brave get with the times, get uploading stuff and blogging! 

So welcome aboard, I hope you will like some of the stuff and ideas I share on here.