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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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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Once more, with feeling!
September 17, 2010 – 11:52 am
Oh blog. It’s been quiet here, I know. Aside from some technological shenanigans, I’ve just been kind of slumpy with regards to crafty things and blogging in general. I have WIPs everywhere, both fabric and knitting. But that’s starting to change and I figured it was time to get back on the horse and what [...]
test test
August 1, 2010 – 4:37 pm
Objects in the mirror may be closer than they seem. Fixing the blog up! :)
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 [...]