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Author Archives: Meg
Granny Squares and tea
May 19, 2010 – 1:59 pm
Granny Squares and tea, originally uploaded by halcyonday. Look, crochet! I have achieved slight dominion over that damn hook, thanks to the lovely ladies at Make Do Mend, whose class at the Gallery Cafe in Bethnal Green last week got me over the hump of frustration. I’m still working on edges as if I’m not [...]
Knitting and Crochet week!
April 27, 2010 – 12:30 pm
Oops! I meant to start the knitting and crochet week yesterday, along with everyone else but, yeah, that clearly didn’t happen. But never mind, I shall combine today and yesterday’s topic into one! How and when did you begin knitting/crocheting? was it a skill passed down through generations of your family, or something you learned [...]
Moses supposes his toes are roses
April 5, 2010 – 9:07 pm
Work and my life got really busy for a while there and updating this here blog kind of fell off the radar for a bit. But it’s spring and I’ve spent the bank holiday weekend starting a huge organisation of my stuffs, including going to Ikea with my other half and throwing a lot of [...]
Pearl and Feather
January 25, 2010 – 11:17 pm
I have a fairly ridiculous collection of beads and bits and bobs and I have decided that this year, aside from knitting my stash, I also need to sit down and sort through my collection, work out what I am going to use and what I’m not and then actually do something with them. So, [...]
Stashbusting and other such stories
January 24, 2010 – 10:23 pm
I am knitting from my stash this year. After hauling out my yarn boxes and sorting through them, so I could add photos of the ones I didn’t have to my Rav stash, I came to the realisation that I Must Knit The Stash before, well, it knits me. So there we are, the main [...]
Steampunked New Year
January 3, 2010 – 1:14 pm
I started 2010 with a bang. That’s the costume I made for the New Year’s party I attended. And when I say made, I mean, I sewed that skirt! Oh yes! The week before Christmas saw me back with my family, hunched over my mom’s elderly sewing machine making the occasional squawky noise and being [...]
Tiny Shoes [Meg]
October 11, 2009 – 4:22 pm
One of my fellow librarians, one I know on twitter is about to have her first baby and there is nothing I like more than knitting for tiny people, so I knitted up a pair of Saartje Knit’s baby booties in some of the leftover yarn from my Spring leaves socks and popped them into [...]
[Meg] Buttons and pins
September 6, 2009 – 8:05 pm
I went for a wander today, down to the V&A, which is my favourite of the London museums and I’m very lucky to live close to it. I was mostly hunting for presents for a couple upcoming birthdays because the V&A store has so many lovely and unusual things in it. I managed to find [...]
FO: Jaded [Meg]
August 15, 2009 – 2:20 pm
SMSKAL: Jaded, originally uploaded by halcyonday. The Socktopus Mystery shawl is complete! I did end up casting on again on bigger needles, 6mm this time and that plus the DK-y weight of the yarn means my shawl is huuuuge. But still, lovely!