Craft Overload

It's been an exciting weekend with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee so I thought I would use this long weekend to catch up on my crafting and other household chores.  Though I have to admit I've been doing more crafting than the household stuff...but I have done the washing up (but now there are more dirty dishes from today to wash up).  That ever-growing ironing pile went from small pile to large mountain and the place around my log burner still needs painting.  I'm not doing very well, it didn't help today that I slept in and spent half the day being lazy (bad Rachel!). 

My slouchy top is going well, apart from the front bit where I got a little enthusiastic and knitted more rows than I need at the shoulder and is now a bit longer than the back piece. Oh well, next time I'll get it right.

 This is the back piece nearly finished.

Now I'm working on the last section on the front piece, then I need to block it and sew them together!  Will post when it is done.

I went shopping in Carlisle on Saturday, finally found a pair of shoes for Abby & B's wedding to go with a dress I already have, I'm going to be trailing a lot of glitter around!  I also got some lovely cotton to crochet with by Rico Design.  I had already come across a pattern for nesting cups and I had a go at making the small one...

...I have to admit the photo doesn't do it justice, it's so cute and fits in the palm of my hand.  Now I'm working on a medium sized one and then a large one.

Another project I'm working on is jazzing up some re-useable bags I have from the furniture shows I attended at Birmingham.  I bought some lovely Liberty fabric on email for a couple of quid and using my yo-yo I'll sew on my little fabric beauties on the bag making it look a lot better than it does now.

I'll put the blog on my blog list for the nesting cups pattern, I'm also going to try her origami boxes.

Until next time!