A craft blog – what mine?

I have not forgotten that this was started as a craft blog – not a travel blog. It’s just so hard to be crafty in a tiny little van.  It’s not that craft has been far from my mind – driving for thousands of kilometres around Europe has given me plenty of time to mentally plan projects for when I return.  And there is the knitted cardigan for Zoe which is not only finished but is being worn every day (I’m having trouble photographing it because it’s been so cold it would be cruel to make her stand outside without her jacket on).

I did however have a bit of a crafty highlight late last week when we dropped in to visit Hilco fabrics in Germany.  Finally I got to to touch the beautiful fabrics I’ve been ogling on the internet – and it was every bit as good as I had hoped.  I was so restrained I walked away with just these two pieces:

This one is velvet and so much prettier in real life (it’s one of those days in Germany when it’s practically dark at 4pm).

This one is stretch:

And I bought my very first Ottobre magazine.

I also found someone to chat to about importing some of Hilco’s fabrics for my shop.  Oh…did I mention I’m opening an online shop?  Hmmm – I think not.  But I am!  I am so excited about it – just wish I could think up a decent name.

Better go – we take our van back in 2 more sleeps now and there’s a lot of mess here for such a tiny van!