The great British Bank Holiday

Well, it looks like another typical Bank Holiday weatherwise, so I think I'll have a tidy up!  Ugh!   I have been doing all kinds of crafty things this week so it's time to put everything back in its rightful place and  start afresh.   Can anyone explain why, when I've tried to use up some scraps and bits and pieces from my 'stash', there never seems to be any more space?

I actually finished spinning the alpaca fleece this week - the results are not terribly successful - it's been washed again and wound into a ball, but there isn't enough to make anything with!.   The 'waste'. which was too short to spin, I decided to make a piece of felt with.   Despite lots of rubbing and rolling it turned out as just a hairy mass which is only just hanging together.    Not one of my successful ventures at all.

I've made great strides with backing up files and the archiving of photos which I had been putting off for ages - I've now archived everything up to the beginning of this year.  However, I  had hoped that clearing them all off the hard drive would speed things up a bit and it hasn't - a bit disappointing really.

I didn't get round to any feltmaking as I'd hoped, but perhaps I will today.   I have completed 10 more quilt squares but I'm fast running out of fabric - the idea was to use up stuff - not to have to buy more.   What a dilemma?    I've actually completed 3 of the 'treasure bags' - red and gold, purples and turquoise and jade green.   I am absolutely delighted with them - they look stunning.   I've posted a photo of the red and gold one and more photos will follow - hopefully, next week.

As promised, last week, I've posted a couple of photos of the glittery, knitted cowls - the photos don't really do them justice, they are very light and easy to wear and look really good worn with a plain top.  

And finally, I made the fabric for a book cover, yesterday, out of various  offcuts of felt which I'd used to make other book covers a while ago.   I used the embellisher to needlefelt them and some scraps of muslin which I'd dyed previously,  onto a piece of cotton which someone had given me.   My recycling instincts ( or is it just meanness) coming to the fore there.    To finish it off, I added some wool yarn and quilted the whole thing with curvy lines - it is, I think, spectacularly successful and I'll have a photo of that next week too.   

All in all a very productive week - can't promise as much next week though - some catching up with garden, housework, admin and other boring things to be done.