Goodbye, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Adieu…
January 3, 2012 | Category: Blogging, Ulcerative Colitis, Vintage | 12 Comments
Happy New Year! I hope you all enjoyed your festivities.
This is going to be a short message to merely say farewell.
Over the last few months I have been thinking long and hard about the blog and about other things that I want to achieve. It has not been an easy decision, and one I have pondered for many weeks. I have decided to stop blogging, at least for the time being.
There are exciting projects ahead of me that I really want to be able to put 100 per cent into. The reality is that as a busy wife and Mum I have a limited amount of time and I’m not the kind of person that can do things half heartedly. The time I currently use blogging, which is substantial, needs to now be used elsewhere.
What am I going to be doing? Well, there are a few things in the pipeline. They all include online activity and writing so if you hang around my normal online hangouts, mainly Facebook and Twitter, then you’ll know exactly what I’m up to when I’m up to it. I am also loving Instagram so feel free to follow me over there as I share my world in pictures.
I’m sorry to say goodbye as it’s been an amazing two years here at Lottie Loves. I started writing Lottie Loves as a way to document a life after surgery which I hoped beyond hope would become the life I had always wanted with love, fun and adventures away from the constant pain of the disease that brought me down for 10 years. I have documented more love, fun and adventures than I ever thought I would or could. Life in the last two years has taken a full U turn. Something that I could never have predicted. 2011 was without doubt the happiest year of my life and for that I am incredibly grateful.
Blogging has been a massive passion for that entire time, encouraging and driving me forward with my various interests, passions and obsessions. I have loved sharing it all with you and getting to know many of my readers, some of whom have become offline friends for keeps.
I’m not going to drone on and on as it’s time to move on to the next chapter. Be in no doubt that there is a next chapter and be sure I will be sharing it with you all somewhere.
Adieu mes amis,
Lottie -x-
Happy Holidays!
December 16, 2011 | Category: Christmas Inspiration, Holidays, Pin Up, Pin Up Pictures, Vintage, Vintage Pictures | 3 Comments
I had lots of fabulous ideas for festive posts and all sorts of useful information to share with you this December and yet here I am having not blogged for over a week (is it actually two weeks now?) and with no time to get the various posts that are in my head actually out onto the page.
You may have realised that I have lost my way a little with my blog recently. Largely as a result of having so little time as life is busy and fun with it, so, I shall take this Christmas break and the impending new year as a much needed opportunity to rethink things and hopefully come back in January with a much better approach.
I hope you will forgive me for bowing out of your bloggy world for a few weeks so I can relax, enjoy my family and friends and not fret about words.
So, I shall take this opportunity to wish you, my online (and offline) friends, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. If you don’t celebrate Christmas then I shall use the blessing of my adopted home and wish you ‘Happy Holidays!’
Much love and best wishes to all,
Lottie -x-
Knitting Fever
December 7, 2011 | Category: Accessories, Knit and Stitch Lovelies, Knitting and Crochet, Made by Lottie, Vintage, Vintage Clothes, Vintage Inspired | 4 Comments
Those of you who follow me on Twitter will know that I have recently picked up my knitting again and have been going at it like a woman possessed . Truth be told, I may not be possessed but I am definitely obsessed now.
Every evening after school I hang out with a group of Mums whilst our older kids do their after school sports activities and the younger ones play. We got bored of just sitting there chatting so we all decided to bring our knitting. We now have a lovely little knitting club of 5-10 ladies meeting up every afternoon for some knitting and chit chat. It’s fabulous. We have taught out friends who couldn’t do it before how to knit and they’re coming on leaps and bounds which is amazing to see. My own knitting is benefiting from the help and advice of my more advanced knitty friends and all in all we’re having a jolly old time with our needles.
Here are the projects I’ve worked on since we started five weeks ago:
I actually started this project almost exactly a year ago, from my book Vintage Patterns for Modern Knitters. I finally finished it and love it. It’s been a hard going project but I’ve learned loads from it. It’s a 1958 pattern but I altered the collar slightly and I didn’t make the collar and cuffs from separate pieces, instead choosing to knit them on as it’s much easier. It’s not perfect but I made it and it’s wearable.
These would have been much nicer in the suggested mohair yarn but I can’t wear mohair so stuck with a sparkly, easy wash acrylic/wool. The pattern is from the book Glamour Knits
I knitted this without a pattern for my Mum. My first foray into circular needles and I loved using them. They make knitting so much easier. This took me just one day, about 4 hours of knitting (I knit in front of the TV too)
Knitted without a pattern. It changes to a snood as in the top picture. I’m not sure I’ll get much wear out of it around here as it’s super warm but I love it and no doubt will benefit from it in England one day.
I’m now working on another pattern from the Vintage Knitwear book. If you click on the link to the post above, it is the last picture on that post. I’ve nearly completed one side. I can’t wait to finish it.
So, what do you think?
Lottie -x-
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