The Lazy Way

My first blog! How exciting! Another outlet for me to happily babble all my inner thoughts and conflicts into written form, to share with the world. Hehehe!
So...... you would think that I would have made the effort at least to plan out what I was going to write... but no, that is not generally my style? I'm too lazy for planning. So instead I will use today's blog to introduce myself a bit and describe what I would LIKE for this blog to be about. You never know? It may turn in to something else.

My whole life I have wanted to learn crafts. I have spent the last 10 years (at least), begging my Mum (and various other people) to teach me to knit, to no avail. I was taught the basic pearl and knit stitches about 11-12 years ago but I had no idea how to cast off or do anything with my new found talent, so I just made many unfinished unusable scarves that never were worn or finished because I did not know how to cast off :( I shall dub these "My never ending scarvesesesesesss". I gave up and have since forgotten how to even make one of those.

Today I am 28. I taught myself to sew this year, by doing that I now have started running a tutu skirt business from home. I am now selling in a shop!
I got my first sewing machine in May, and I was too scared to use it for a week... now, in July, I make money with it. :D

So, my mission is to keep learning! Spend this year learning how to make all the things that I always wanted to be taught how to do. I have the Internet! I have a world full of teachers just waiting to tell me how to make things! I really like recycling and up-cycling and I have discovered a lot of the "rules" for sewing/crafts don't necessarily need to be followed to complete a task. I am inherently lazy and  like to make things easy for myself, I figure I can do that for other people too?

So, if you are new to craft. Want need ideas to play with, or want to see which of my tasks I fail or succeed in. Stay tuned, for there shall be many (hopefully more of the success) I have little to no experience with most craft activities. I do read blogs, watch YouTube and read books, I then go away for a few night,weeks, months and think about how I can make all those ideas work for me. I will link wherever possible if I am trying out someone else's idea.

Happy Crafting!