Christmas Bazaar

Hello,

Just a quickie today to say a huge thank you to all those who supported The Woolly Prawn at our stall in the Abbotts Bromley Girls’ School Christmas Bazaar last Saturday and to those who bought books, kits or pebbles. I hope you enjoy them.

I had lots of help from my granddaughter who was definitely giving the crocheted pebbles the hard sell and was generously distributing our cards for The Woolly Prawn and Crocheted Pebbles. A big thank you also to Helen, who invited me to share her stall – we had a lovely day. Do take a look at her fabulous goodies – they make wonderful presents.

Plans are afoot to extend the Woolly Prawn’s range of goodies for next year’s event – watch this space.

Now it really is time to concentrate on my Christmas projects! No photos at this stage for obvious reasons. Time is certainly of the essence …. why does December seem to fly?

Off I fly!

Jenny x

Prawn to pebble and back again

Hello,

I can hardly believe that my blog has now had over 1,000 visits during its first year; a huge thank you to all of you who have looked at it and been so supportive.

All this prawn business seems to have come full circle now – first of all my daughter and I jointly wrote and published The Woolly Prawn in December 2012 after many hours spent designing, making and testing knitted prawns and the other bits and bobs ……

the book

Then followed the introduction of the Woolly Prawn Kit in the summer of 2013 …..

the woolly prawn kit

…….  and in October last year when the crochet bug had really taken hold I developed the passion for crocheted pebbles which led to my blog. Now it’s back again to Woolly Prawn kits and keyrings ……

prawn keyrings

The return to prawn-making began in earnest when I was invited to share a stall at the Abbotts Bromley Girls’ School Christmas Bazaar. Helen and I will be selling our goodies together on Saturday, December 29th – do have a look at the wonderful handmade dolls and rabbits on her facebook page (Helen Lucia E) and if you live in the Abbotts Bromley area come along on Saturday morning.

So, over the last few weeks I have been preparing kits for the Christmas season with their mini-prawn keyrings –

Contents

ready to go!

you can check out the book and the kit on Etsy.com/shop/TheWoollyPrawn.

There will be crocheted pebbles on sale as well, of course, and I have been trying out some colours to brighten up my display.

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So, next week I really can concentrate on my Christmas projects – three weeks to complete ….. that’s scary! I hope you are all well ahead with your seasonal crafting. It is supposed to be relaxing and therapeutic after all!

Bye for now,

Jenny x

 

 

Back with a splash!

Hello again. It’s been a while since I last wrote …. all down to a combination of holidays, hot weather and other bits and bobs.

So, it’s good to be back – albeit in rather dramatic fashion. My first crochet session of the autumn just happened to coincide with my lovely daughter’s nomination for me to do the Ice Bucket Challenge. Instead of starting our Monday morning with the Magic Loop as I had planned my lovely ladies found themselves armed with iPhone, IPad, camera, towels and a bucket full of icy water.

Hot shower and hot coffee later we got down to the business in hand which was to introduce my group to the endless possibilities of working in the round, using the spiral, increasing and decreasing. The world is your oyster with circular crochet – amigurumis, bags, beanies, doilies, baubles, covers for pebbles to name but a few possible projects. I even found a delightful pattern for the cutest butterfly which I couldn’t resist trying.

 

lovely first project

 

irresistible

 

delighted to find a pattern for these little beauties

 

Really good news last week -one of our local yarn stores, Miju Wools in Gloucester, has just got a reprieve after being threatened with closure – It saddens me when wool shops cannot survive either because the running costs are so high or the customers just aren’t visiting. It is so easy to take these shops for granted and just top up our stashes with online purchases. I simply can’t believe it when people say that nobody knits or crochets anymore but it is definitely true that those of us who do must support local businesses whenever we can.

If you live in the Gloucester area take a look at Miju Wools on Facebook – there’s lots going on there at present and plenty of different daytime and evening classes.

lots going on

just look at the colours

knit and natter

Well, that’s my little bit of support for small businesses done. I’m off to deliver a couple of the Woolly Prawn kits to the shop today along with a few crochet covered stones.

Keep spreading the knitting and crochet love wherever possible.

Jenny x