Day 226 - Website Makeover!!!!!!

I know, I know, these are not Crochet Slippers - these are my Birthday Present - Fit Flop slippers!!

I get through slippers at a rate of knots - I am forever wearing them out - I think that I get through about 6 to 8 pairs a year!!

SO my lovely husband has dug deep in his pockets and paid a lot of money for these robust little caramel beauties.

Please note that I am wearing Crochet Socks in this photo!!

Day 226 is this lovely baby blue cotton flower

And finally....

I have finished one UK Sized 9 sock!

Sock 2 is currently under construction

I am really pleased with my stitch work on this as I am using 4ply & a 2mm hook so very fine work

Now

The moment you have all bee waiting for.........

Drum

Roll

PLEASE

www.gethookedoncrochet.co.uk

I have re - hosted my site (that wasn't down to me that was my amazing computer chap who's @conrjac on Twitter) & given it a makeover (that's the bit I did)  at the same time so I hope that you like it.

Please, Please, Please leave me a comment somewhere as I haven't used Wordpress before & it's all new to me.

I have had fun editing it - I should have done it a while ago.  My particular favourite is the "Gallery" page as I have put a lot of recent photo's on there & gone are the ones from yesteryear.  I feel like I have had a Spring Clean in Summer / Autumn!

Day 108 + Workshop news!

I have loads to tell you today, but not a lot of photo's as I have been sooooo busy!

So here is the photo of the post

Day 108

I used 2 strands of the sock wool that I am using for my current pair of socks.

Sock Number 2 is currently in production and nearly at the end!!

So more news !

I took 2 workshops today - both 2 hours long.

One was for a group of 5 beginners which went really really well.  It was full of chat and crochet, probably more chat than crochet, but we got to working in rows with nice straight edges thanks to the stitch markers & using Double & Treble Crochet so we didn't do too badly!

The 2nd was with a lovely lady from Shaftesbury who has wanted to crochet for a long time.  She did really really well and she learnt to work in rows, in Double & Treble Crochet and has promised to practice lots before her next lesson.

In the meantime I had further "enrollments" to my eLearning course from 2 pupils that I teach One2One as an addition to their private lessons with me.  This will give them good back up for times when I am not there with them, at home in their lounge when they want to practice!!

In other news - my new wool has arrived from someone that I am doing a commission for.  It's lovely & I can't wait to get going on this project this weekend!!

And finally

I turned down - yes DOWN an offer of making up a piece, so that's where you are provided with a pattern & the wool & have to crochet the piece.

The piece in question was an adult cardigan, which I estimate would take around 20 hours to produce.  For what they were offering me, £50, that works out to £2.50 per hour - Minimum Wage is currently £6.19 per hour.

I rest my case.

And finally finally

Look what I bought today

A Vintage Stitch / Row counter! I can't wait for it to arrive as I will use it lots and lots so money well spent.

 

That's it from me - sorry for the lack of photo's!