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

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!

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

Lady Luck

Knitted flowers are go!!! Check out these lovely pics of my knitted flowers....this first one is a brooch, how dandy it would look on your favourite waistcoat.

And this one is a ring, my only styling suggestion here is, errrrmmm, put it on your finger!

These are both available now at http://www.ladyluckrulesok.com/ along with lots of other fun valentines treats from lady luck herself!

Hearts n flowers...

I do love a heart shaped accessory, and with valentines round the corner.....what a great excuse to do some heart shaped knitting and finally attempt some knitted flowers! I know what you're thinking, knitted flowers = mumtastic. Well, see for yourselves what i created.

These plus a few more valentiknits are in the shop now, woo!

BUST craftaculaaaaarrr

Woweeeeee, that BUST christmas craftacular has to be up there with the most fun days in 2008, it was ACE!!! Lots of great vendors with fabulous stuff for sale and tons of eager customers, I really hope they do it again next year... here's some pics

My knits...all here..

Me selling my wares..possibly mid sentence?!

And yes, the lovely Amy Lame was there with her fabulous 'pompom international' stand, see what she's doing with pompoms at : http://www.pompominternational.com/

That's just one of the FUN things i did in december, i'll tell you more in a minute.