First of all I ought to say "Hi" and introduce myself. I'm Claire, and have been taking part in Spinspirations monthly get togethers since the offset, but now am helping with Spinspiration in a more formal sense. I blog over at
Simply...Life as well as at
Aisling Designs. I'm a mother to four children, and have been spinning for what will be two years this coming Christmas.
As a crafter, my mind is already turning to Christmas, things to make, mainly for others, and possibly a little for myself. I am currently spinning up more wool (Zwartble/Suffolk cross from Dawn) for a macBook cover commission, based on the iPad cover I made for someone.
Earlier this year I was making a couple of rings for the Guild Exhibition that was held in July. The Robin was the one that was eventually sent down there, and it has now made it's way back home, and yesterday I was able to give it to my Mum for her birthday present, as she was rather taken with it as I was making it.
I also made a seascape one, which has had lots of interest in it over on Etsy.
As I enjoyed making them so much, and as I had so many other ideas going round in my head for designs, I bought the rest of the rings from our local guild, so that I can continue playing with spinning, felting, knitting, crocheting, all to create new pictures (hopefully some in time for Christmas)
More woolly goings on for Christmas include a batch of soaps and wool! I think I will have very clean hands after felting this lot (and that's only half the soaps!!)
I've also been approached by our guild to see if I have any small things that I can sell at a show they are at in November. I haven't been able to think of many small scale things to make, but the other day I came up with the idea of some embellished flowers using handspun wool. These will be turned into brooches, hair clips, bobby pins and hair bobbles. A nice satisfyingly quick thing to make amongst the bigger projects.
As ever, with me, so many ideas, so little time. But it is safe to say, I will be spending the next couple of months working with alot of wool!
Off to see what everyone else is up to.
