Hello dear readers. Please accept my humblest apologies for not having posted for so very long. My reasons are quite simple: I have been busy making Christmas presents (yes; since August) and I haven't really found anything to inspire me very much. Will that excuse me? I don't know. However, I do promise to post regularly next year, as I will be blogging about the WIPocalypse right here every full moon. If you don't know what this is about, pop over to Measi's Musings to learn more and to sign up. I have also joined Daffycat's Totall Useless Stitch-A-Long, or TUSAL, which I will be posting about on my other blog.
But this is not why I opened the New Post window. I have recently stumbled across a couple of very inspirational magazines and I wanted to share them with you. The first one is called "Stitch" and I have been purchasing this magazine off and on for about a year now. I have instantly bought the new issue the last four or five months because I have been so inspired by the previous month's articles and projects. This month, though, I cannot think of a single article or project that hasn't inspired me, and I am really annoyed that I'm going to have to wait until the new year to be able to start on any of them. I have promised my step-daughter that we will make one of the projects together (the heart-shaped multi-fibre brooch) and I really can't wait to get started!
The brooches are the first project in issue 74 of this bi-monthly magazine and I am so taken with them that, before I can even start making them, I have already planned how to adapt the project to make other items and shapes.
The next item in the magazine to inspire me was named "French Knitting" and was on the letters page. I am entirely in awe of Peter Brooks and his amazing ability to create such beautiful pictures with French knitting.
The next two projects (Let it Snow and Scarlet Passion Flower) are things that have been added to my to-do list, and I can't wait to start reading the article on 17th century coloured silkwork, but the following article, Capturing Myths and Legends really shouted at me. If you haven't already bought a copy of Stitch then I urge you to go and buy one. Now.
A Confetti Confection, As Good as Gold, A Special Case and She Sews Sea Shells are also very beautiful and awe-inspiring projects, all of which have been hastily added to my To Do list, but Petals In Pink has been added higher than these on the list, because it's just so darn gorgeous!
I really can't wait until the new year when I might find enough time to start one of these wonderful projects!
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