It's difficult to now where to start on your first ever blog but everyone has to start somewhere. I guess I wanted to start blogging to share with everyone the ways that I've found to save money. I also want to spread the word about crafting from home. So I suppose it is a double blog about crafts and money and if the two combine, then even better!!
I've always been interested in crafts from when I first started a Mickey Mouse tapestry on plastic canvas when I was little - I can't remember how old I was but I remembered it was a disaster but I enjoyed it anyway. Later, I did try learning how to knit when I joined a club called the Knitabugs. Does anyone remember them? After being certified as a knitter, I figured that I could knit anything and embarked upon knitting a cardigan in pink with green flecks. The time I finished one side, I had grown out of it. That was the end of my knitting career for many years!
When I was 14, I started cross stitching and this was the start of the obsession! By ex-boyfriend's mum bought a huge map of Lancashire and when I completed it I was so chuffed! They owned a pub and it went on the wall so everyone got to see it. Customers then asked me to do another and this is where money met crafts for the first time.
Since then I've tried cardmaking, scrapbooking, jewellery making, more knitting but my first love is still cross stitching. In fact, I'm now on a mission to complete all of Heritage Stitchcrafts counties of England and am well on the way with over 15 completed but still a long way to go. Considering I've been at it since 14 this is not good progress.....I might finish when I'm 120......
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