September on Sherkin Island

Its taken me a while to get organised to write this post but I wanted to share with you our lovely September weekend on Sherkin Island, West Cork. Last weekend I visited with a group of five lovely ladies from my WINE ......Ahem!...... BOOK Club & what a lovely time we had. Sherkin Island (from the Gaelic Inish Earcain) is one of a group of islands located in the fabulously named Roaringwater Bay. It has a population of about 100 people - many of them artists and craftspeople. Its about 3 miles long by 1 & a half miles wide.

We boarded the ferry in the seaside town of Baltimore.....





Can you tell how excited myself and Susan were to be out of the car and on the ferry?!!






And when we arrived it was straight on with the wellies .....

And out for a walk in the glorious September Sunshine....

My little camera cannot do justice to the beautiful views ...

 Lovely and all as the outdoors was .. inside was pretty special too ....

Snuggled up in the cottage with lots of crochet and chat & crafty bits ...pure BLISS!!!

Oh & I can't forget to thank the hens on Sherkin for our lovely eggs for breakfast!

I can't wait to go back again! If you'd like to see some more of Sherkin why not check out our hosts Blog @ Wildsherkin.

Thank you for visiting & come back soon !

Love

Siubhan x x x 

Something Small for Sherkin

Wayy Hayy! It's Friday - I've double checked!
Off to the beautiful Sherkin Island today for a few days walking, talking and relaxing with some bookclub friends and fellow blogger & crocheter Mrs A (check out her lovely WildSherkin Blog ).

I decided on Wednesday night that my wavy blanket was too big a project to bring to the Island so off I went hunting in blogland for a new project. I have some lovely squishy soft purple yarn I bought in France I've been itching to get my hands on. Its such nice yarn I want to wear it properly (not just make ANOTHER scarf - they are multiplying alarmingly and threatening to take over the under-stairs cupboard!).
So here is the pattern link to the Chevron Lace Cardigan.

Dosen't it look lovely? It's been super easy so far and this is where I am after just one evening,
I'll take another photo when the weekend is over and maybe show you some photos of the Island too!

Thank you for visiting & have a great weekend!

Siubhan x x x

Wave Goodbye to Summer

Autumn is truly on the way so I decided to cheer myself up with a wonderful wavy project to keep my fingers busy as the nights close in (and use up some of the yarn stash that is now genuinely threatening to take over the house!).
I have long since been an admirer of the lovely & talented  Lucy over at Attic 24 and she has the best ever ripple pattern with idiot proof step by step directions.
Just look at the results !

 I have re-purposed my second Summer beach bag as a yarn bag & we're off !

I'm on the 38th row with a starting chain of 219 so that's um......8322 stitches of wavy fun so far!

My daughter has 'claimed' the finished blanket for her apartment  when she moves away to college ...... that should be in a mere 2 years time
so that's my deadline and I'm sticking to it!

Thanks for visiting! & hope you have a lovely week!

Siubhan x x x

Flowers !! OW!

Obviously I'm a lot less in touch with the seasons than I thought, when the rest of the blogosphere is getting all geared up for Halloween I'm busy making felt and fabric flowers ....

I saw this flower brooch post and from the lovely Megan at not Martha just couldn't resist !
Out came the stash of felt
out came the scissors
out came the tissue box from recycling
& (OW)T came (the beloved's) hot glue gun.....my first time using a hot glue gun and what a disaster!!
Fantastic glueing BUT it dripped on the table,
it dribbled on the floor,
it leaked on my felt,
it splattered on the fabric
& then finally the inevitable happened and it dripped on ME !!! OWWW!!!!
I won't share the intimate details of how blinking sore it was & the size of a blister I gave myself,
but needless to say the HOT Glue Gun is henceforth banned from my arsenal of crafty tools!

Anyway enough of my life threatening injuries for one day, look at some of the flowers I made !!!
featured on saome of the bags I made!
Taaa Daaa!!!!

The first flower on a shoe lovers clutch no 1 option for Mary at Love your shoes

clutch from a repurposed silk shirt i loved and ripped!!

Option no 2 for shoe lovers clutch (no matter what I do I can't get it to turn around the right way!)

and finally a sneak peek at another felt flower I made to compliment my latest bag and the one I will be entering in the Lemon Squeezy Homes Purse Week !

My son gets the results of his first state exams within the hour, fingers crossed ! & thanks for helping me pass the time whilst waiting !

Thanks for visiting !

Siubhan x x x

Purse Week @ A Lemon Squeezy Home

I'm so excited !
I've been following The (lovely) Lemon Squeezy Home blog for a few months now and when I checked in the other night I discovered this .....

OoooOOOhhh!!! A competition !!!! With BAGS !!! I don't know what I'm more excited about, actually DESIGNING and making a new bag or looking at all the lovely entries as they are posted in the Flickr Group Purse Week 2012 ( note to self - must figure out how to use Flickr !)

Hmm ! I've been scribbling design ideas on the back of envelopes and lying awake dreaming of fabric combinations. Today I'm going to take a trip into town to hunt down the perfect fabric to start making these schemes and dreams a reality! Wish me luck !

I've been chatting to the lovely Cindy at Rasberry Sunshine (check out her beautiful blog) She's going to enter & if your up for it, why not enter too ?!

Off to the shops !

Thanks for visiting !

Siubhan x x x