I’d like to thank my editor…

I’ve been sitting on this award for a few weeks, mainly because I’ve been rather too wrapped up with Christmas to write a worthy post.

But in hindsight this seems like a rather splendid way to start a new year, so I’m not overly shamefaced!

The ‘rules of engagement’ for this award are as follows:

1. Thank the person who nominated you.

2. Add the One Lovely Blog Award/Very Inspiring Blogger Award to your post.

3. Share 7 things about yourself.

4. Pass the award on to 10 nominees.

5. Include this set of rules.

6. Inform your nominees by posting a comment on their blog.

So here goes:

Thank you so much to Anne of Mercury – Handmade Fashion for her very kind nomination.  It’s especially flattering because Anne’s skills with needle and fabric are just amazing.  So very inspiring.  When I grow up I want to be able to sew (and pattern cut) as well as Anne.

Now to a very random list of Seven Things About Me.

1.  If I could have any car in the world it would be a Morris Traveller!

2. If I was a car, I’d very probably be a Morris Traveller.

3. If I had a Morris Traveller I would probably wear frocks all the time!

4. If ever there was an incentive for The Husband to sort me a Morris Traveller that would be it!

5. I dream of taking classes at Central St Martins.  They do summer school, dontcha know!

6. Even better would be to study at l’ Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne.  This is less likely to happen!

7.  Despite my protestations to the contrary in my last post, I’ve already fallen into a plan for this year.  It’s a teeny tiny one, but a plan nonetheless.  Lara Croft and I are planning a day out in the spring to visit BaaRamEwe and take a Fair Isle knitting course.

I can’t help myself.

But it will be Too Much Fun!

And now to the list of  talented, principled, charming and funny women who, with their wit, courageous life choices, boundless creativity and immense skills, continually inspire me in all sorts of ways.

1. 3hourspast.com
2. Stitch Parade
3. Chica Andaluza
4. Fringe Association
5. VickiKateMakes
6. Diary of a Chain Stitcher
7. Janet Clare
8. Sewing Princess
9. Yoshimi the Flying Squirrel 
10. So Sew Lovely

Do check their blogs out…they are a pretty amazing bunch.

If it ever stops raining here I will get some photos of fabrics that I received for Christmas (thank you Fiona and Husband).  At the moment they would just look grey…it doesn’t seem to get light here at all during the day.

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Still lovely

Thank you also to Anne for her nomination for the Lovely Blog Award.  It is so lovely to know that it’s not just my mother who reads this blog (although I know for sure she does….hi Mum, see you on Tuesday).

One lovely blog

Wow, I got the One Lovely Blog award from Rose’s Sewing Room.  Thank you Rose, and I love the view you have from your sewing room.  I look out over the rooftops, and not in a Mary Poppin’s kinda way!

So, the rules of engagement for this award are:

• Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link.
• Pass the award on to 5 other blogs that you’ve newly discovered.
• Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

You’ll have noticed some recent additions to my blogroll so I’m nominating these new (to me) lovelies for this award:

• SewChic
• The last stitch
• Never Not Knitting
• Knitters Delight
• blueprints

Enjoy!

I’d like to thank my agent…

…and 2BSewing who has nominated me for the lovely Sisterhood award, which is my first blogging award.

I am thrilled.  When I moved to the North of England I felt so isolated, far away from my friends, but now I have a fabulous group of new real and virtual friends who all enrich my life in different ways.  I am blessed and grateful, for both old and new.

So in the spirit of this award, the rules of which are:

– Place the award logo on your blog
– Nominate 10 other blogs which show “Attitude and/or Gratitude”
– Link to the nominee on your blog post
– Comment on their blog that you have nominated them
– Share the love and link to the person who nominated you

I’m nominating the following blogs:

Black Purl and Himmelbjerget147 who inspire me creatively, and also to be a better person.

Whistlepea Knits whose outlook on life is inspirational, as are her cakes!

And last, but by no means least, Brownberry Yarns, for her fearlessness in launching a fabulous new business, and her fabulousness in taste in yarn.

Ladies, I salute you.