Spring!

Over the winter months my creativity has been dead. but now it's brightening up (slighlty as it may be) My creativity is flowing without control, I've been making hats recently and tonight im starting a new piece for yarn bombing using an interesting stitch That I've only used once before.

The pattern I promised may be delayed as there's been a few problems with it but there's annother bubbling inside my head :)

Why Buy Handmade?

In this article i will attempt to alert you to some of the endless reason to buy garments, tools and toys handmade by everyday people like you and I.

As I'm sure you are aware for good quality home made products it can be quite costly, and If you are waiting for your item to be made you can also be waiting a small while for your order.
 Many people would ask questions like, 'Why would i want to spend £35 on a handmade top when i could go to the store and get one for £25?' I wouldn't blame somebody for asking this question, especialy in the times we live in, Jobs are hard to come by and people are saving every penny just to get by!

Now by no means am I suggesting that everything in your wardrobe and yout house should be handmade, definitely not, nobody can afford to buy everything handmade.


Handmade clothing Is made on the small scale thus original and you will most likely never come accross somebody with the same garment of clothing as you whereas store bought is mass produced and very popular making it hard for you to avoid seeing people with the same clothes as you.

store bought clothes are lovely yes and I'm not saying there's anything wrong with them other than the fact everybody has them, but would you rather be remember as 'that guy/girl with the same top as me,' or 'that guy/girl with the really interesting outfits'

as awesome as this is, it's a fine example of mass produced style and no individuality:

Since the dawn of trade, sellers have followed the cheap labour, which unfortunately in todays world means that there are children in third world countries working for pennies, although many spokespeople for major company's will deny any involvement with these factories, in many cases they turn out to be knee deep in what may aswell be slave labour.

with handmade clothes, you know exactly where your product came from, who made it and how much they will be getting paid for that item, which is great knowing for definite that you are not supporting child labour.


With handmade items generaly are more expensive that those mass produced, you have to take into account what it is you're paying for:

Materials, the people selling their handcrafted wares will most likely not be buying thier materials in bulk so will be paying public rates which can be quite pricey.

Originality, The item being sold will be of their own imagination and they will have spent endless hours planning, sketching measuring and editing this particular design and probably maybe a few prototypes which is more time and materials used.

Time, as the products are handmade the crafter will have spent hours working away on your purchase, whilst it will be doing something they enjoy, it's still time of their life they have spent to make this for you.

you have to take all these facors into account when thinking about the price of a handmade product.



I hope you enjoyed reading this, i spent a lot of time writing this and if this changes at least one person's opinion of handmade goods then that's my aim completed.




I hope everybody is having a great year so far, I have a new pattern to post for you's I was going to post a different one but i figured this one would be better

speak to you's soon bye :)

Happy New Year

And so another year closes, I myself can say that I'm glad to see it go :)

i home everybody has a good night and stays safe :)

Happy New Year!!

Merry Christmas.

I hope everybody has a good Christmas tomorrow and I would like to apologise for the lack of activity and I promise come the new year I will focus my full attention on this blog and I will haw more patterns ad will start selling some stuff on etsy :)so please if there's anything you want to see, any patterns you'd like to see let me know :)


Merry Christmas everybody!

lastest yarn bomb.

this piece was done outside a friend of mine's house and as i was sewing it up an old woman, possibly about 90 and as she drove past she started beeping her horn frantically i don't know if she done this on purpose or not but here it is:

this one's a lot longer than the first one I made, and it has some horrible furry yarn, it's nice but god i hate working with it.

Just an update

Ok guys it's not been this cold in Scotland in a long time it's unimaginably cold outside.

So I'm just sitting on my bed warming up, crocheting my next piece for yarn bombing it's gonna be annother lamp post but I don't know where to put it, somebody suggested I go around all my neighborhood but i'm not sure, should I go around my town leaving street cozies here an there or do my neighborhood then branch out? I'm also looking forwrd to doing my first tree also but first I need to decide on a tree and size it up.

And my tomorrow I'll post my pattern for the crochet anna-varney cantodea it's not that great but hopefully the rest of my patterns will be better as I prefer making goofy animals rather than human like creatures

Happy Belated Halloween

Hey Guys i hope everybody had an amazing halloween, and yeah sorry this entry's like a week late, but i've been busy busy busy.

I crocheted a little miniature anna-varney cantodea. I wrote the pattern down but it didn't turn out nearly as well as i hoped, but i think i'll post it anyway.

Also I've been busy yarn Bombing :)

This is the first piece of yarn bombing i've ever done, it was mainly crocheted with a little bit a knitting in the middle, it was all crocheted with a knitting needle as i lost all my crochet hooks except for my 2.5 and 3.5 hooks which would take me ages to make a simple piece this this haha.