Plans for world domination

Well, maybe not the entire world.  Not just yet.  Really just 'plans to move things on a bit'.  My poor we blog seems to have been a tad neglected of late, but I promise you, work has been going on behind the scenes.  Lots of work.  For a start, I finally registered a domain: www.thehookery.co.uk.  All it needs now is a website behind it...

And all a website needs is something to put on it...

But there's no point putting my stuff on it until I have a shopping cart sorted out...

And a shopping cart needs a website.

These are all Big Things for a little business, especially one which is run by someone with a fairly busy day job.  For the short term, I think I'll be linking my website up to my Folksy shops, but in time I would like people to be able to buy from me direct, so this is a start.

In other news, there's been a product redesign for Scrubbitty, as well as some frantic making to be sent to a real-life-bricks-and-mortar-shop-on-a-high-street.  *Gulp!*  More about those later.  I've also had a bit of a spruce-up here too.  As usual the lovely Bonnita came up trumps turning my shop branding into nice little logos that I can use.  They're there, up on the right hand side.  Smart, no?  There's a Hookery one too:

So you see, the blog may have been all quiet and deserted, but I have been busy, honest!  Anyway, no rest for the wicked and all that - I've still got a bit of crochet to be getting on with...

Revamped and destined for the High Street...

I'll be back with more news soon.

Blanky

It's been a while, but I promise, I've been fairly busy with the hooks.  Admittedly, not all of it crochet for the shops, I recently finished this, for me:

I started it aaages ago, back when the dissertation was still on the menu.  It's funny to look at the first few rounds and remember what life was like then.  It's a very simple pattern, two colours, three rows of each, then change.

I should have kept count of the yarn, but I didn't.  As it weighs about a kilo, I reckon there are about 20 balls of yarn there.  It was a relaxed project, just something to pick up in the evening and do in front of the telly.  As the evenings got colder, I found I could snuggle under it while I worked on it.  The guage is quite loose (most of it was crocheted without actually looking at it), so it has a lovely drape.  I'm liking it's beachy shades of sand and pale blue.  I reckon it will be a year-round blanky.

I'm also working on another blanky for Eidelweiss.  Here's a sneak peek:

So, what're you working on?

Introductions

*Walks into room. Looks round appreciatively*


Bit bare, isn't it? Hmm... we'll have to do something about that. A splash of colour here, a few pictures there. Still, there's plenty of space to grow into. My mother would approve. According to motherly wisdom, you should never get something that fits right-now-at-this-moment-in-time, oh no! Get something a little bigger than necessary and then it will fit for months (possibly years) to come. But that's for another post.

Well, I suppose I should say hello and introduce myself. I'm Claire. I'm *cough* years old and I crochet, among other things. I have a little shop on Folksy where I sell my crochet called 'Eidelweiss'. It's called Eidelweiss because a) I like flowers and b) I like flowers with a tradition or meaning behind them. Anyway, enough shameless plugging (there'll be more of that later). I also have a pair of cats, Felix and Hector. Contrary to what you might think, Felix is a girl. She is also quite contrary.

Hector is her son. He didn't get the contrary gene.



I know. We think 'daddy' was a little more exotic than black & white... He's a little bigger than this now (three years bigger, in fact).

Anyway, enough from me for now. I'll be back later with more to tell.