F i E L D y: Afghan Progress.

Although there has been alot of sewing going on around here it is of the 'sewing multiples' variety and, as such, not very interesting. I have been making good progress with my 'Furrows' afghan and it is noe getting to an exciting stage (you can tell that I don't get out much these days!)
I have crocheted all 81 squares and I am now in the process of crocheting the black edge on each of them and I am almost half way through....

and I am loving the way that the black edge makes the colours sing out......

and I can't wait to lay all the squares out to arrange them as the finished blanket will be. I was intending to sew all the suqares together so that the overall blanket was flat.....

but I now think that it would look great crocheted together so that there is a 3d ridge creating a grid effect on the surface - I CAN'T WAIT!!
I have been getting alot of inspiration from the Granny Square Pool on Flickr - so many talented people out there!
In other news, yesterday I attended a half day seminar run by the Cultural Enterprise Office on running a creative business which was thoroughly enjoyable and very useful. I met a variety of people from all sorts of diciplines and there was a great rapport between us all as a group. I am hoping to go to a follow up seminar in August about how to take things futher. There is also a Marketing module that I am definately going to do - I need to get focused and these things help enormously. All these seminars are entirely free and open to everyone engaged in creative businesses - such a great resource! Business Gateway also run some great courses which I have done in the past - again entirely free.