I’ve had two skeins of Oxford Kitchen Yarn Sock yarn in Tarnished Gold sitting in my stash for ages. I’d just not found the pattern for them until Fourth Edition released her Karise pattern and suddenly, I knew where one skein would be going! My Karise (Rav Link) used just over one skein of my [...]
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FO: Crochet Baby Blanket
May 27, 2011 – 5:43 pm
About a year ago I learnt to crochet and turned into a lean, mean granny square making machine but then they lurked, quietly in a bag with possible plans to turn them into a lap blanket that never quite happened. Then, a coworker at my old job announced she was pregnant. I pulled them and [...]
A nice cup of tea and a sit down
May 24, 2011 – 1:13 pm
I’m at an awkward stage of crafting with too many things that can’t be photographed until they’re done or less piecemeal but I have spent a couple happy hours over the last weekend making the above cross-stitch. (It’s from Crosstitcher 239). I am not yet sure what I shall do with it – maybe make [...]
FO: Coraline plus xstitch
April 17, 2011 – 8:29 pm
My Coraline [Rav link] is done! Hooray! I took advantage of my current copious amounts of free time and the recent sunshine to sit down and knit a lot. The end result being that after some disgruntled cable needle wrangling (I hate cable needles and normally do cabling without one but the smocking required it) [...]
Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!
March 13, 2011 – 8:50 pm
T’bf is a massive Doctor Who nerd, so while he was tromping around the Doctor Who exhibition in London, I was busily constructing a surprise birthday cake Dalek. Dalek Cake (exterminate! exterminate!) is made out of swiss rolls, icing and minstrels, with toothpicks, tinfoil and glace cherries standing in for plunger etc. and comes from [...]
Cake of nomminess
March 7, 2011 – 1:35 pm
Look at that cake. It is a cake that netted me several emails from my coworkers going ‘That looks amazing!’ (and they got several emails back in return going ‘Well, eat it!’ but I had to be the person who made the first slice after lunch in order to lure the hordes.) and then several [...]
Finished items and catching up
February 27, 2011 – 9:08 pm
I had planned to do some more sewing this weekend – a coin purse to go with my bag – but instead, I ended up doing some object finishing in regards to knitting, which brings me down to one piece on the go and that’s my Coraline. Which is a good place to start, actually. [...]
Buttercup bag (or: Look, Ma! I gone sewed something!)
February 20, 2011 – 12:01 pm
Wheeee! One finished Buttercup bag from Made by Rae. It took me awhile – I cut the fabric out ages ago and then failed to do anything with it/succumbed to the Sewing machine Fear – but I decided that I needed to sew it up, so I’ve been working on it slowly over the last [...]
Kindle Frankencover
February 1, 2011 – 12:54 pm
Well, don’t get used to this much updating but I’m back, with another post! Yesterday I bought a Kindle, which wasn’t strictly planned but serendipity has its own ways and means and had settled this for me last week. So it wasn’t like I didn’t know it was going to happen and could thus make [...]
Hello 2011
January 30, 2011 – 5:26 pm
*draws curtain over usual silence* Things, things I am making in 2011! Cotton Reel Mittens by Ysolda, in some of my treasured Sheldridge Farm 3ply, Mash Mallow (yellow) and Pussywillow (grey). These are my first attempt at colourwork and I am enjoying them greatly. The join is a little messy but frankly, they make me [...]