Monday, 6 July 2009

Middlesborough...(up north)

Well, what a weekend that was, let's start with the trip up North.
After a very early start we got to Middlesborough with time to spare, so we stopped off at a tiny roadside cafe called 'Lynne's pantry' for a cuppa and home made scone before arriving at the town hall crypt for a fun filled market day!

Mr foxy having a sleep curled around the tree there in the very green 'nature' section of the stall!
And here's the 'crafty' corner with knitted paintbrush and pencil brooches as well as Sugar Paper zine and other crafty bits!
There were plenty of lovely things on offer to buy at the designers marketplace, my favourite were 'showpony' who had come down from Glasgow, they had a range of screen-printed goodies, my favourite was this tea towel.

It all wound up at about 4 so we packed up and headed home. Feeling sleepy on the drive home, we stopped at Wetherby services, a coffee and biscuit later we returned to the car feeling refreshed and ready to go. Unfortunatly Wanda (my car) wasn't feeling the same, she just didn't want to start! She wouldn't even get going when a friendly passer-by tried shaking her then pushing her round the car park, eeeeek, time to call the breakdown people and start panicking about getting to Hogwarts tomorrow! Fortunately, a breakdown dude came and fixed Wanda up with a shiny new battery, that was all she needed! It was a long and eventful day, but we had fun and taught a very enthusiastic lady what a 'zine' is...so I'm happy!

More soon, Kandy x

Monday, 22 June 2009

This weekend...

Hello there,
This weekend is gonna be a busy one for me. After no craft fairs for months and months I am dusting off my tablecloth and knitting my heart out in preparation for 2 very exciting events THIS WEEKEND.
Starting with saturday and the Designers Marketplace in Middlesborough, this lovely poster tells you all about it.



And in case you can't quite read the small print, entry is FREE, so if you are anywhere near Middlesborough on Saturday and fancy buying, or just looking at some lovely handmade goodies then come on down, I think that will be literally down as it is in a Crypt, oooooohhh!!!

Then from up north to down south for me for the London based, Harry Potter themed fundraising day : Hogwarts Jamboree !!!


"Hogwarts Jamboree is a magical all day Harry Potter themed event with wizard rock bands, film screenings, raffles, cakes, zines, prizes, quizzes, and craft stalls."

Myself and Seleena will be in charge of Harry Potter themed crafts on the day, so come along, watch some bands, make some stuff, drink some pumpkin juice, and rock out to some wizard bands!

Kandy x

Thursday, 28 May 2009

Marzipaknit...

I am speechless...

just stumbled on these amaaazing marzipan knit decorated cakes, thought i'd share..

go here :

http://veganyumyum.com/2007/06/knit-night-cupcakes/

for more pictures and a video of them being made on the Martha Stewart show in America. Mmmmmm cakes! x

Monday, 18 May 2009

I heart charity shops!

"I'll just pop to town, see if I can get some good pencils with rubbers on the end.."

3 hours and 8 Charity shops later (there's 11 in Chesterfield town centre but 3 were shut, Saturday afternoon)...I returned home with this lot!
I think the wooden knitting needle box is my favourite, plus, I got loads of needles including giant ones and my favourites...coloured needles, and all sorts of stitch holders from years gone by!
It was the funnest shopping day I've had in a long time, I didn't get the pencils I wanted, but I didn't let that dampen my extremely high bargain bonanza spirits!

Knitted odd-bods...

I have been wanting to get good at hand knitting for a while now, but I've never had a hand knit project exciting enough to keep me going. You can only imagine how excited I was when I found a knitting book by Donna Wilson filled with patterns to make your own creatures, wooo
A few weeks and alot of learning later, my first complete, fully shaped hand knitted friend, sleepy pom...


I heart him, he's all squishy and feels lovely. I would encourage anyone looking for fun knitting projects to check out Donna's 'odd bod bunch' book. I have just made a start on my next one, it is bigger than this one, wish me luck!

Casting off,

Kandy x

Wednesday, 8 April 2009

Spring has sprung....

Have you heard the buzzzzz? There's some springalicious new knits in the knit and destroy shop now. I have gone outside to the sun-and daisy filled gardens of my childhood for this little collection, hope you like it!

Head on over to the shop to see the rest, there are also a few more bits coming soon so watch this space!

Saturday, 14 March 2009

This is how we do it....

Hello again,
I often get questions about how I make my knits and how comes i'm so hott at intarsia. You know the answer...it's all machine knitted, but that doesn't mean I push a button and the knit just happens, there's much more to it than that.
I heart my workspace and my knitting machines, I took some snaps of me at work (I had just found the 3x self timer function on my camera) and thought i'd share them!


Knitting, concentration 100%...

some essential knob twiddling...

Thinking, or just showing off my shiny hair and pinboard...

I have been making too, currently working on s/s 09 bits, to be revealed in April in the shop, also to be featured in my advert in the next issue of NUDE magazine (buy it, it's a great magazine). I have also been crocheting things for me, check them out on the sugarpaper blog :
http://sugarpapergang.blogspot.com/
Casting off
Kandy