Just a few words and a couple of photos
This will be a post of few words, as I have a boy on my lap who wants to do everything his mummy is doing! But I just wanted to to show some photos of my hat, which I finished the other day. I saw some...
View ArticleToo much going on
I finished the dining room curtains the other week. I am reasonably pleased with them, but they are slightly too long on one side, which I think is due in part to my inaccurate measuring (I did rush...
View ArticleThea Revisited
I've been wanting to re-post on Thea for a while. Mainly because the previous photos were taken whilst I was breastfeeding, and, shall I say, it fits a lot better now! I wasn't sure how much I liked...
View ArticlePants Party!
I was trying and trying to come up with an innovative title for this post, but this one stood out the most for me, so I just want with the simple and obvious choice. Last weekend I went to a pants...
View ArticleA Rapid Transformation
Since putting the curtains up, we became more and more dissatisfied with the browny-grey colour of the dining room walls. We bought a new paint sample in a lighter grey, and also tried the same white...
View ArticleA Room With a View
As is probably obvious from my severe lack of posts recently, I just haven't had the time to post, and when the time has presented itself, in the evenings, I generally find I'm too braindead from...
View ArticleA Turn About the Garden
Yes! I've been so excited to finally write this post. I've been leading up to it shamelessly, which could have been dangerous as there was always the chance of stalling again, but I have, in fact,...
View ArticleWonderhaul
It seems like Wonderwool was months ago now, as we've got so back to normal since our little holiday in Pembrokeshire (of which more in a future post), which we planned to coincide with the weekend of...
View ArticleUnder the Apple Tree
We've reached the stage with our house where we're running out of projects and looking for what to do next. It's funny when doing up your house becomes a hobby and you start to think, "What shall we do...
View ArticleBaking Backlog
I seem to remember in a previous post saying that I would be introducing a lot more baking into my blog, and now, time has passed, I've done a lot of baking, but I haven't blogged about it. So this is...
View Article2 ply
I hereby proudly unveil my second ever plied yarn! With a bit of inspiration from my friend the Midnight Sheep, who was a great help in recommending which rovings to ply, I have finally produced...
View ArticleWhy, what a lovely sack you are wearing!
After speeding (for me) through my lovely Shellseeker, I finally reached the end of the front and decided now would be a good time to try it on (pause for derisive laughter). I had tried it when I got...
View ArticleOne thing leads to another...
Hello blog! I havent forgotten aboout you, I promise. In fact, I think of you frequently and with longing, wishing I had some time to devote to you and some more love to give you, but with and two and...
View ArticleSplitting Hairs or Three Bags Full
After plying my Shetland (post to come), I was eager to start experimenting with some of the fibres I bought at Wonderwool. I purchased a load (as in, I've totally forgotten the weight!) of Falkland...
View ArticleShellseeker Numero 2
As I discovered with Thea, ten weeks post birth + breastfeeding does not equal a good figure in which to pose in a newly knitted garment. However, since I have no idea how long it will take to reclaim...
View ArticleOde to a Hat
Actually, I must come clean; there is no ode to follow I'm afraid to say. Just a lot of photos of my Kat hat from Kim Hargreaves lovely book, Precious, from which I also knitted Thea. Marno was having...
View ArticleThank you Santa
Pretty much exactly a year ago, we went to Shropshire with my lovely old schoolfriends for a reunion Christmas weekend. This is a (kind of) annual event and part of the weekend entails a secret santa,...
View ArticleSuccess and Failure
As usual, this post has been a long time in coming. The first yarn I spun on my, now nearly one-year-old, wheel, was some lovely Shetland which was a gift long ago from Helena. I spun it up quickly...
View ArticlePeppa Pig cake tutorial
This post has been soooo long in the pipeline, so after six months I am finally getting round to it. For Noah's third birthday, back in September, I made him a Peppa Pig birthday cake. I did have a...
View ArticleOoh arr me 'arties!
My lovely friend Lorna gave birth to her long awaited baby boy Ronan a few weeks ago, and, having left any gift making to the last minute, though with a vague notion of designing some kind of bibs, I...
View ArticleAn unintentional dress for a wedding (Vogue V8469)
A few weeks ago I was looking through my projects, feeling a little disenchanted with Laar (yes, it's still plodding on in the background - I bought a miniscule 20cm Addi circular needle to do the arms...
View ArticleA Boy and Some Yarn
Noah really loves his yarn... He likes to squish it and rub it against his face (preferably when his upper lip isn't covered in snot, as here!) He likes to feel its softness... ...and see how much of...
View ArticleThe first of many..?
Hello peeps (a ridiculous word I know, but I find myself drawn to it of late!) Well, you'll recall that a few posts ago, I showed you the Vogue dress I made, which I think I can say was a success,...
View ArticlePretty Much Exactly Like Cinderella, or, From Rags to Riches
Hi Peeps, Sorry it's been so long since I last posted. And I apologise because I know you are out there readers, because the most unexpected people tell me they've been reading, and that they've...
View ArticleBehind the scenes
Hello there, legions of fans! My post is thus titled because, having just gone through the photos of my latest project, I see that there are an awful lot of construction photos (no I haven't been...
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