Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Keep Calm Craft On {crafting on}

The act of creating, in one form or another, preserves my sanity amongst the chaos of life. This explains why I always have more than one project going at a time as well as why my housework tends to fall behind. I enjoy seeing what others are working on and keeping calm with, too. What are you creating? What is keeping you going? Snap a picture or two and share it with the rest of us by leaving your link below.
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This is where I will be spending every waking minute over the next couple of days - working on birthday gifts. I ran out of time for a dress, so a skirt will do. The birthday sweater requires 32 matching buttons which I could not find locally so I had to order them online from Canada. I am on pins and needles waiting for them to arrive. I might be cutting it too close this year!!

I meant to share this in my last KCCO post but totally forgot in the moment. Sparkle Stories just put out an audio book all about knitting! This is an hour-long "Martin & Sylvia" story divided into three parts! The story includes lots of wool craft projects, including knitting, working with wool, spinning yarn and fingerknitting - and centers on a class brother and sister take with a magical woman named Miss Melinda. If your family loves to knit together, or if you're wanting to inspire your children to learn knitting and wool crafts, you'll really enjoy these stories! There are even tutorials and patterns available so your children can create right along with Martin and Sylvia! C and I might even use one of the tutorials to make a birthday gift.
free knitting story is also available. It's called The Fingerknit Necklace and you can find it here.

What are you working on? Happy creating!

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What adorable fabric! I'm sure you'll be finished with her skirt in no time. As for the buttons...:-) if the knitting is done on the sweater, surely the buttons will arrive in time! (Although I don't envy you having to sew on 32 buttons, that's not my favorite part of sewing, for sure.) Keep up hope!
1 reply · active 600 weeks ago
They arrived the afternoon before her birthday! I stayed up all night sewing them on but it was worth it!
Lovely fabric. Thank you for telling us about the knitting series on Sparkle Stories. We have a two hour orthodontist visit today and I know my littles would love to spend the time with Martin & Sylvia in the waiting room.
Lovely fabric.
Clare x
love to see your beautiful face!
Love the fabric choices, as usual! And thanks for sharing the info on the sparkle stories, can't wait until Riggs is old enough to enjoy them a little more!
Lovely fabric!

Thanks for hosting.
I love that fabric! Those stories sound interesting too.
Ohhhhh, that fabric is gorgeous! Good luck getting all your projects done in time. :)

We love love love Martin & Sylvia. Just downloaded the knitting book last week too. It's wonderful! I don't recall grabbing the freebie story though - I better go check. Oops!
I LOVEloveLOVE your fabric combinations. I think from now on when I want to sew for the kids, I am going to have you pick out the fabric for me. I have a really hard time picking out coordinating bits with my main fabric. I am doing a bit of birthday crafting too. Making festive touches and invites for N's special day and making her a special pair of pants. Trying to get on top of things a little early this year because I know it will sneak up on me.
1 reply · active 600 weeks ago
You are so on the ball!! I'll help you pick out fabric if you guys sail over to the west coast so we can chat Cousteau love, homeschooling and ocean adventures over some hot tea ;)
I also love the fabric! Adorable!
I'm so glad my computer is working again so I can read your blog (can't get it to load on mobile). It's so peaceful and you make such beautiful things. I love that fabric.
1 reply · active 600 weeks ago
Thank you! I am not sure whey it can't be viewed on mobile but I will try to look into that.

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