Knitty friendship

Know as everyone knows knitters are a very happy go lucky bunch. There are stereotypes within knitting there is bound to be the outdoorsy type - i go on a hike pop into a farm shop and still but yarn, the ultimate perfectionist - she is very glamorous usually has knit pro needles and gorgeous yarns that all will covet, the social knitter - who has a million and one things going on but still has time for Monday nights at Sainsbury's, and finally the homemaker - has more than one child but adores her man and her brood and would do anything for them but not foregoing knitting club. So i have decided that when you put us all together we are at one and are knitty friends thus creating knitty friendship. 


I have not been going long but they listen to my woes i theirs and they have taken me into the fold and hopefully i will be joining a few of them at unravel this year which i am so excited about. I also thank Ravelry for without this wonderful site i would never have joined the fold of knitty friendship or even knew that such lovely like minded folks were out there.


Moving on from the excitement that is my Monday night knit club i have sadly broken 3 out of my 4 sort of resolutions. I am not exercising enough, i am not being creative enough, i lost no weight and i was late with my blog but i am still trying to make something every week and here is this weeks project which will be winging it's way to Devon to my friends daughter Phoebe. See below image

This like many of my current projects is knitted with big softie, i have a love affair with this yarn and have found out it's on sale for a very reasonable price at Remnant Kings. co.uk so if your after some head there now as it's so fun to knit with and gives you IKG Instant Knitty Gratification apparently time pressed women are craving this more and more so i guess i must be a sufferer. 
Anyway see you all next Monday and feel free to leave your views on big softie yarn.

Week 2 of my new committments

Ok so I have lost 5 lbs and got a job for a TV broadcasting company it is only for 2 weeks and it's miles away but at £110 a day I'm finally being paid enough to live on for at least 2 months hooray.  I'm also aiming to get onto a recruitment team at Vodafone but we'll just see how that goes as I don't like Vodafone and they have mis-sold me a policy that i will be complaining about but that's another story.
Crafting wise this week i have been catching up on knitting i should have done prior to Christmas. I have nearly finished two wrist warmers and a hat. Which i think in this currrent temperature of minus 5degrees the recipient will be pleased with.
Better go as so much to do today as im not about tomorrow. Also got knitting club tonight yay.

New Year New Creative Opportunities

This sexy number is a hat for my friend Keith

So it's the new year and yet again i have set myself some challenges which i started over Christmas. I am going to be creative and launch myself a company called becstarz-boutique.co.uk. I have bought the domain name and made some business cards now i am making stock. I am going to make embellished and creatively decorated canvas shopping bags along with a few other niffty little things so i'm going to use my blog to tell you all about what I'm making and what is/isn't working something lighthearted and fun not all doom and gloom like last year.

So here we go i had a knitted Christmas this year hence the hat above and the jumper below.

This is a cardi for my mum. ps she loves it.

We had knitted baby hats, scarves and a necklace but now it's onto creating and making which brings me to my new years resolutions. Which i'm going to share with you.

1. Get below 15 stone as i refuse to be a chunky 30 something crafter it's far too stereotypical.
2. Make something every week and update all you lovely people with it.
3. Remeber to update Ravelry (I forget constantly)
4. Appreciate all feedback even negative is good so please feel free to chuck those comments out there.
5. Not respond with anger take a minute then fire out a scathing retort

So hopefully I can keep these for a change, i will be updating every monday unless there's a natural disaster, holiday or a death in the family.