girlybunches: What has Girlybunches been up to...?

How long has it been? Nearly a year!!! Disgraceful!!! Sorry peeps... However, I hope you will agree it's an interesting blog to come back with and of course you will see that I've been busy!!!

Firstly, Since my last blog I have now created my own Website! .. http://www.girlybunches.com/ Check it out!! It took a while to create and I am always tweaking it.. as is the way, but I think it's not to shabby!

I have also been working hard on my Youtube Channel! ttp://www.youtube.com/user/Girlybunches I started making little crochet videos, some for fun, but mainly tutorials in basic crochet in August last year and I am amazed and so thrilled to have over 380 subscribers already! One of my videos has has over 110,000 views!!! *Happy Dancing*

So as you can see I have been busy. I have also been attending regularly the lovely fayres organised by the lovely Yvonne in Bury Port South Wales. All the fayres are to raise money for charity and great fun. Check out Yvonne's blog for details of the next fayres.. http://my-hauntedattic.blogspot.co.uk/ There is always a wonderful selection of handmade and vintage items for sale.. to name a couple... Wonderland Boutique & Athenas Vintage... Also, with the Parental Units, Sweethearts and Roses & Meadowcraft Work Shop.

Also.. I've given the ol'blog a bit of a face lift.. thought the spots were more my style... 'Dotty' my husband would call it.. read into that what you will! ;) (at least he didn't say spotty!)

Not sure if you've every noticed, but I do like a cup of tea or two.. and have had to suffer a NAKED teapot for many years now! I know its a shocker! Well... I've been wondering about making a tea cosy for a while, and after a few false starts I finally cracked it... the tea cosy that is... I would have cried a lot if I cracked my beloved teapot! Have a look at what I came up with.

This is the first one I made, and so this is all MINE! mwahahah!

Then I made this pink one,...

and the blue and yellow one.

And of course.. I had to make a patriotic one for the Jubilee, which is now living in Denver USA! :)

The Mothership has already requested a tea cosy.. so will be obliging, and have already posted one to Denver, Colorado. After making a sale on Etsy!... Very pleased with that, as I was beginning to think that my Etsy sales would never pick up. So very excited about that.

Another thing I have been dabbling with is writing out my own patterns for sale. This isn't as easy as it sounds as most of the time I just make things.. and in my head it makes perfect sense!! However, I have been asked by a few people for patterns for things and I thought why not give it a go.

Only have two patterns for sale at the moment, and one of the patterns is a back up to a tutorial I have on Youtube. But I will definitely be writing more.

In my year off from Blogging I experimented with a few different things, and one of them is this a crochet lampshade. I loved making this, it reminds me so much of urban knitting, or graffiti knitting as it it known.. here is my version...