The history of Zirisi

 The name is pronounced zih-ree-see and it is something I made up and liked the sound of! It was initially the name of a character I created on a game and I liked the sound of it so much I made it my own. 

 The first blog post I made on Zirisi was on 7th April 2013. I had already been crocheting around a year by then and had opened my Etsy shop a few months before that. I love crafting in general and I actually tried to take up knitting but found I was unable to grasp it. So I decided to try crochet and picked it up as if I had been doing it for years already. After that I was hooked (see what I did there?). I spent a lot of time making up some single crochet squares and I ended up with approx 200 before I braved new patterns. Here are a few of my early makes:

I had very little space to work with back then, a tiny corner of a room with a computer desk and a full bookcase. Not much storage space either! I have a lot more room now and have filled a lot of space with crafting materials! 

I learned a lot over the 7 years that have passed by, I have also taken up sewing as of last year (November(ish) 2019) and I really enjoy it! Here are some of my newer makes:

The first is a hand sewn pocket tissue holder and the second is a filet crochet infinity scarf. I have also taken up loom knitting and have been known to make scarves for family members this way. 

As you can see, the history of Zirisi is short and sweet! But there's a lot more to come yet. I have the crafting bug and that's not going away any time soon. I hope you enjoyed this history and catch-up. Leave a comment if you have ideas for what else you'd like to see, I focus on accessories and fun items not clothing. Or just if you want to say hi!

Z

A new chapter

Hello and welcome,

For those of you new here - Hi! Nice to meet you. For those of you still following me since 2013 Welcome back and thank you for your support! 

Where did all the old posts go?

I reverted them back to draft. Drastic as it seems the posts were outdated and most of them didn't age well either! There have been a lot of false starts as I have been very busy on the rollercoaster we call life and so I decided it was a good chance to start fresh and go forward. 

What about your history?

It was full of holes! Long gaps of absence and there was no flow to it really so we put it to one side. There will be another blog shortly to condense the important parts and the history of Zirisi. I stopped selling and blogging - I didn't stop crafting (no really. I have quite a lot of handmade presents to gift this year!).

Great! So where do we go from here?

Onwards! We will start with a couple of posts about the history of Zirisi and what I have been up to previously, then a post about more recent things. After that we shall try to keep up the momentum of posting a lot more regularly than I did before. I was posting once every month or 6 months at random before. I hope to post at least bi-monthly if I can from now on.

All caught up! thanks!

No, Thank -you-. Thank you for your support for before times and for after times! You are all really great!

Catch you on the flipside :)

Z