Free shipping just died

 I nearly fell off my chair when I read through the new Royal Mail postage costs.

Let me explain it in numbers.

I sell a vintage pattern for £2.25 that should include P&P. So for each sold pattern I receive £1.66. Yes, eBay charges me £0.59 in fees. If I list on those 80% fees reduced days of course I get more.

Postage use to be £1.15

cardboard backed envelope £0.25

A4 punched pockets £0.04

Total £1.44

I earn 22p per pattern. Yippee! (sarcasm)

If I carried on selling patterns for £2.25

It'll work out as a loss of £0.18

I will have no choice but to reduce the pattern price and charge P&P instead.

I'm sorry, but I want to make some money. I know I will not be a millionaire one day selling vintage patterns but I don't want to make a loss either.

June Bauble

The sixth of the series of 12 Months of Baubles

You can get a choice of kits from here. The pattern is only available if you buy a kit. Or if you are experienced in beading you may be able to figure it out yourself just by looking at the photos, like I did. Which gives you the opportunity to create your own colour combinations.  

May Bauble

 The fifth of the series of 12 Months of Baubles

You can get a choice of kits from here. The pattern is only available if you buy a kit. Or if you are experienced in beading you may be able to figure it out yourself just by looking at the photos, like I did. Which gives you the opportunity to create your own colour combinations.  

April Bauble

The fourth of the series of 12 Months of Baubles

You can get a choice of kits from here. The pattern is only available if you buy a kit. Or if you are experienced in beading you may be able to figure it out yourself just by looking at the photos, like I did. Which gives you the opportunity to create your own colour combinations.  

March Bauble

The third of the series of 12 Months of Baubles

You can get a choice of kits from here. The pattern is only available if you buy a kit. Or if you are experienced in beading you may be able to figure it out yourself just by looking at the photos, like I did. Which gives you the opportunity to create your own colour combinations. 

February Bauble

The second of the series of 12 Months of Baubles

You can get a choice of kits from here. The pattern is only available if you buy a kit. Or if you are experienced in beading you may be able to figure it out yourself just by looking at the photos, like I did. Which gives you the opportunity to create your own colour combinations.

January Bauble

 The first of the series of 12 Months of Baubles

You can get a choice of kits from here. The pattern is only available if you buy a kit. Or if you are experienced in beading you may be able to figure it out yourself just by looking at the photos, like I did. Which gives you the opportunity to create your own colour combinations.

Netted Baubles

 Beautiful and effective way to cover your boring plain baubles. All it needs is Size 11 Toho seed beads and Toho 3mm Bugle beads.

All the kits are unavailable but the pattern pdf is still available here

Crystal Icicles

 Enough for 6 icicles in different lengths

Kit available here

Netted Baubles

 These were the second type of bauble dressing I was trying. They still have some of the kits available but also just the pattern pdf

Star Bauble

 I had to remake this one. It sat a bit too tight and I change the green beads to a different green which I think make it look even better.

The kit isn't available anymore but you can still get the pattern from Totallybeads

Yarn Packs on eBay

 If you are in the UK and are looking for some Attic24 and other Stylectaft yarn packs then please head over to my eBay shop. Just use the link at the top.

The price is what you pay for at Wool Warehouse and you get free shipping as well.

I have atm 6 yarn packs listed, five are Stylecraft and one Bluprint.

Attic24 - Sweet Pea CAL (Stylecraft Yarn Pack) £31.50

Stylecraft 2016 CAL - Carousel Blanket (Yarn Pack) £36.99

Janie Crow - Eastern Jewels Blanket (Stylecraft Yarn Pack) £38.50

Attic24 - Dune Blanket (Stylecraft Yarn Pack)   £31.50

Attic24 - Woodland Blanket CAL (Stylecraft Yarn Pack)  £31.50

Bluprint Pulsing Prism Afghan Crochet Kit   £49.50

I am doing a massive stash reduction and will list more yarn, either as singles or as bulk.

So keep an eye out. It might take me a while to list everything but I have about 6 massive bags of yarn waiting to be listed and there will be even more.

Crazy about Colouring

 Something else I have started doing again is colouring. Using different tool, colour pencils, felted pens an water colour pens. I will try again water colouring as well. 

I have plenty of different colouring books to choose from, including some really annoying ones that are printed double sided. What were they thinking? Felted pens with colour through and colour pencils will copy colour onto the other page unless you waste an extra clean sheet of paper for every page. Really wasteful. Some are bound really idiotic as well.

Baubles in Beads

 Because it's too hot to knit now and I wanted a break anyway because of 2 very painful knitters thumbs. Update on those, my right one doesn't hurt at all atm. My left one is still painful but not as bad as it was before. So I hope I can start knitting again when it's cooler again.

I bought these beads to decorate baubles quite some time ago.

I finished the Icicles first. I already completed 3 last year and they had decorated my tree. All together 6 in different lengths.

Then I made 2 of these.

Followed by those red and silver ones. Atm I am making the golden version.

And then I have more planned with the leftover beads.