Projects

Well I promised a blog last night and it didn't happen... I'm sorry.

I have a good excuse though I promise... Hubby had been away for a week and returned Thursday night but was absolutely wrecked, so we spent some quality time together last night catching up on what had happened in the past week and, falling asleep on the couch as usual.

You can't blame us though... when we have the worlds most comfy couch.

I went to a linen party today and although it was linen and what I'm creating isn't, it still inspired me and has helped to continue to motivate me with my new endeavors. If you check out myKanga Crafts page on facebook I have uploaded some of my creations and, as my list grows so will the albums. One thing a couple of my friends said is that they like my Butterfly's, and think I should make and sell them as I made one as a gift and it is very muchly loved.

So this afternoon after the linen party I came home and was finishing off some cloth wipes I was making and then decided I would try and tweak my butterfly pattern and create another one... I struggled a bit in trying to simplify the construction of it and subsequently didn't finish the first one and just started on a second. I will finish both of them though and then stuff and upload pictures of them.

I have also made a couple of pairs of pants for my son creating a pattern from an existing pair... It didn't work out all that well as the material I used although beautiful on, was hard to sew. Second time around I adjusted the pattern and was using fleece (note to self, much easier to sew) however this pair have ended up too long unless in shoes and then really they are still a little bit too long. (I could shorten them... I realise this, I just haven't. However I have recently purchased an overlocker so could overlock the bottoms and then turn up and sew for that professional look.)

I gave in and bought a pattern, but it didn't twig in my brain until I got it out the other day to make more, that the smallest size I think from memory was a 4. So I'm back to adjusting my pattern again... I'll get there.

So things I'll be working on for the rest of the weekend... Butterflies, possibly some Bunnies and what I'm going to affectionately call the pants my son wears and perhaps I may begin to stock and sell Munchkin Bums.

Well I'm going to hop off now....

Kanga Out...

P.S. I had trouble getting this to upload to Facebook last night, but all is sorted now. So it is even later (so so sorry)... Just imagine while reading this that it is Saturday night and it'll become a little clearer.

Hello, hello, hello and welcome to the first of what will be a few blogs from Kanga Crafts. A while ago I was going to start a blog from my personal account, recalling the adventures my little Roo has as he grows older, however that didn't come about. I hope to keep this up, more than my hopes for his blog.

So back near the beginning of the year in fact late last year I started doing a lot more crafty things, creating and "modelling" things I saw that I liked that I thought others may like and want to purchase too. I put it out there on facebook that I was going to start something and wanted my friends to keep me accountable... Well we are all busy and time unfortunately these days I don't believe is a friend of mine... It's moving too quickly and my baby boy is growing more and more into a little boy every day.

Whoops I got off track there a little bit...

...Back on track. Recently I've been following a friend of mine Sweet Cheek Crafts and she has really inspired me to pull my finger out and get creating and be more pro-active with my craft and the little business I want to start. Having said all that I'm putting in place the steps to re-launch my Kanga Crafts Facebook Page... It's a little lacking in content of pictures at present as my hubby has our memory card reader and it has all my latest creations on it.

So this is the beginning I hope, of what will be a hobby with benefits.

I would love for you to come on this journey with me and if there is something you find that you would love me to try and make for you, let me know and I'll give it a go.