Yet another craft blog...

I've been thinking for a while that it would be nice to have a personal blog to further indulge my love of crafting, so I've finally worked out how to beat Blogger into submission and here it is! A bit shoddy and a bit green, admittedly, but that appears to be the best I can manage as the 'view HTML' button DOES NOT WORK! Maybe I should change the title to Sian's Shoddy Green Blog...

So anyway, it's another craft blog, sorry about that. I know the internet is filling up with them at an alarming rate, but this is MY craft blog and therefore it's obviously better than any previously posted. I imagine I shall mainly use it to further procrastinate rather than doing any actual crafting... Seriously, I think and read about my various hobbies more than I actually do any, so it's likely this blog will be filled with rather more "inspiration" than actual finished objects. Lots of links to lovely patterns and notions and yarn, interspersed with deep, philosophical posts about exactly *why* I feel incapable of knitting an actual garment or turning on my sewing machine. It's going to be a BLAST y'all!

I'm also going to try not to think about it too much and just embrace a casual, chatty style of blogging rather than worrying about being interesting which is probably what killed The Other Blog. (Do not talk to me about The Other Blog, I feel bad about it already!) So don't expect anything too shiny or impressive because that ain't what I'm here for; it's just me, some knitting and *maybe* some baking if you're very, very good.

Just in case someone who doesn't know me from Twitter stumbles across this, I should probably say a bit about me... Hai random internet passerby! I'm a 30 year old librarian living in London, England and am called Funktious on Ravelry and most other social media. I have been knitting for nearly 5 years and would finally describe myself as "not that bad at it." I own a drop spindle and have done probably about 2 hours of spinning on it in total, which probably doesn't justify the fibre stash... OH WELL! Similarly, I own a sewing machine (a gift from the owner of Twinset & Purls) and would love to emulate the dress making and quilting successes of both that lovely lady and the owner of the Biographia Domestica blog (also a lovely lady*), but am too scared of it to actually do anything with it...** I also bake, nothing special, but I am told that my brownies are delicious (by people who I'm NOT sleeping with, as well!) I have a cupboard full of lovely yarn, a vast amount of buttons and more things that I want to knit than I have the time to knit, especially given that I'm truly, terribly lazy.

So, I'm sure a blog will really help with that! Let's see, shall we?

*(not in the Les Mis sense, just in case you were wondering. They have all their teeth and only have their hair cut when they want to.)
**(Fear is going to be a theme here, you see.)