Hello! Things have been hectic, to put it mildly, here at the Mad Knitters Tea Party, but I felt I must post a new post in honour of some new followers! Thank you so much – welcome and I hope you enjoy my blog!
It’s wonderful to see that in the last month I’ve had visitors from Denmark, France, South Korea, USA, South Africa, Australia (and the UK where I live). I’m all the more excited as I don’t get out all that much at present so it’s truly amazing to think that people so far away are saying hello!
Things have been hectic due to the arrival of two characters in the summer of 2016 – to give you a clue, here is one of the only projects I have completed in the past year:
The scarves, not the monkeys!
I expect you’ve worked it out, so here are the two additions, my main projects for the foreseeable future, who are clearly utterly angelic…..
This is them just over a year ago – the blankets were another rare project completed in snatched moments, often when I had visitors and one baby was asleep.
My boys are amazing and I do know how lucky I am. But…. they have transformed and bulldozed into our lives so completely it’s easy to feel that i have no identity apart from being ‘just’ a – somewhat deranged -mum. I used to be a wife, friend, daughter, etc as well as a crafter. Despite their butter-wouldn’t-melt appearance they have taken over to the extent that crafting hasn’t so much taken a back seat as been left behind on the road looking for a lift. But the ideas keep coming and I am slowly getting back into making things. So I plan to steal a couple of hours when I could be sleeping every so often, to share with you both the things I’m making now, and the many many things I made before the twins’ arrival, which I didn’t post about due to writer’s block! I hope all are of interest.
Next post – woolly weddings – sneak preview below! Happy Crafting!