Knitted Online are off to the creative garden fayre this Friday - it's in Leicester and it's free entry to public.

See you there if you're in the area x

CRYSTALOICLE is my kind of blog.

This is a selection of a lot of things I thought were fab on this blog.

We have the 'make love' origami poster; I am a little addicted to 'cool' origami (should that be termed 'geeky' origami, I think probably!), although I do tend to always convince myself I can do it with normal paper instead of the uber thin, proper origami stuff. I tried to get my hands on CRAFT volume 5, which gave a whole edition to 'the wonderfully diverse world of paper projects'. It was to no avail as I can only find a few of the issues available in UK outlets. But like this post on crystaloicle, there are many tutorial on the world wide web of cute / fun / geeky origami projects.

Next to catch my eye was the currently trendy moustache themed toilet doors. My friend Becky loves moustaches, well actually many people do - my dad has sported one for longer than I have known him, Sarah and Dave had stick on moustaches for all their guests at their wedding last summer, which was some very fun table entertainement. But this post made me think of Becky, we hosted a moustache party a few years ago, and each guest received a eye-liner tash chosen from our tash menu. So that's pretty much why I loved that post!

How cool is this next one - the furry message board. I love it, I want one! Enough said, oh except that they are the work of Gonçalo Campos.

Last in my selection of much that is good at Crystaloicle are these butter packets, 'Butter! Better'. I spent probably around 3-4 years obsessing over cute and clever designs like this, all based around food / baking / cooking / the home. And while my collection has begun to dwindle I do still get a little flutter when I see stuff like this. I think they're fad, credit to Yeongkeun Jeong.

There's lots more cool stuff on the site, if you liked any of that,

Happy Knitting x

It's difficult to name Knitted Online's official launch date (and maybe unnecessary).

Was it:
a) The day we bought the machine,
b) The day we begun the website,
c) The day I knitted my first hat,
d) The day we called for designers to join us,
e) None of the above.

Truth is I don't know which of these is the more significant date, but I do know that we are now up, running, and selling knitwear. We are very proud to be making things in the UK, and even more so to be manufacturing in the Midlands.

Part of running Knitted Online is constantly sourcing new Designers so that our collection is broad and varied for our customers. Today was a good Friday; I meet a few people at Birmingham Social Music Cafe, in particular Created in Birmingham, a blog dedicated to hunting out those doing just what it says on the tin. Today they featured a selection of our 'cosy accessories and homewares', and tomorrow I'll post up some more pictures of some of the knitted pieces for you all to see.