FNSI results!

Well hopefully it will post up unlike the report from FNWF lol.  I will have to remember to double check this week lol.

So I decided that I had to make a needle case for all my beautiful knitting needle sets some weeks back and my favourite older needles.  Over the last few weeks when I have had time I have been working on the insides of the storage case making up the pattern as I went along and doing it for each specific set of needles too.   I have finished making 2 double sided inserts for the interchangeable sets and am in the process of making one for the DPN sock sets and when the cover is complete it will have space for my favourite old straight needles and all the crochet hooks and an area for notions like stitch markers, tape measures, scissors, darning needles and anything else I am likely to want to use while knitting or crocheting.  I currently have a box with old needles etc and it is not very portable and all the different cases that came with the sets were driving me a little nuts lol.  I will be keeping them with things I don't want to ditch just yet in that cardboard box.

Last night at 6.30pm I ironed on the backing to my linen for the cover and sat down and drew a wrought iron gate from a pic in Inspirations Magazine and completed it and almost one hollyhock on the side.  I did spend a large chunk of yesterday going through all 85 editions of this magazine for inspiration and decided to pick elements from about 4 different projects that caught my eye and add them to it in a cottage garden style which will reflect our garden.  So around my feet while sitting on the couch are all my boxes of threads.  Madera silks, cottage garden, some other silks, DMC and Madera cottons and some very old semco and anchors as well.  A large collection of colours and textures!  I was gifted nearly all the colours brought out by Madera and I did quite a few years ago fill in the gaps of my collection of DMCs so I have plenty to choose from.

So not a bad start for a few hours really.  We watched an episode of Death in Paradise on DVD and followed it by Miss Fisher on the ABC and then I was too tired for any more stitching.

Some of you will remember when I used to seriously stitch but I ran out of use for such items and decided it was time to concentrate on knitting and it lead to spinning as well.  What I deemed more practical projects because patchwork although I do love it is one of Mum's favourites and with 10 quilts in the house I didn't need any more of those either lol.  Then there is the collection I am going to inherit one day too!  I will need a bigger house.

So there's a start and I might do a little more now and also work on my first ever pair of hand knitted mittens and visit around some other blogs after lunch.  I think I have the day all worked out quite satisfactorily now.