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A Turtle and a Giant Baby Blanket
02 July 2008
Read moreI've just finished another slowpoke, like one I made earlier, and this one is at least as cute!
I realised after finishing this one that they original pattern has them with their heads looking sideways, maybe this is why mine always look a bit strange!! This one also doesn't have …
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Fetching Fingerless Mitts (again)
15 February 2008
Read moreLast year I made these lovely fingerless mittens from a pattern called "fetching" on the knitty.com site.
I've made some more! After a trip to Farfield Mill in September I bought one skein of lovely local-made wool. I adapted the fetching pattern, adding extra cable repeats at the cuff …
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Crochet Robot
10 February 2008
Read moreI recently met up with an IRC friend, Davey Shafik, in real life for the first time. A couple of days beforehand I realised that he lives in Florida and sometimes meets up with my good friend and phpwomen.org mentor, Ligaya Turmelle. This seemed like too good an opportunity …
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Christmas Angel
25 December 2007
Read moreMerry Christmas everyone!!
I spent last weekend doing a mad delivery round across the midlands but now I'm enjoying a quiet Christmas at home. I also finally got round to making the angel for the top of the tree, here she is:
She took up her post on top of …
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Easy Mincemeat Recipe
17 December 2007
Read moreMost of my recipes are found on the internet, but this one is a scanned copy of a recipe my mum cut out of a magazine, probably sometime in the seventies. Its really simple to do and makes nice, sweet mincemeat full of apple tastes and not too sharp. I …
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Christmas Cookery
14 December 2007
Read moreI've excelled myself in the kitchen this evening, been there for a good few hours and here's the result:
From left to right: banana loaf, mince pies, more mince pies, gingerbread in a jar, mincemeat pasty thing. Not in the shot is the curry I also assembled for tomorrow night …
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Charity Natty Keyrings
10 October 2007
Read moreAt the knitting group I attend in Leeds (first Tuesday and third Wednesday of every month in Starbucks in Borders if you're interested) we received an invitation to join the "Knit a Natty Keyring" charity event. I can't find a website for them but here's a good description of what …
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Ripple Blanket
29 August 2007
Read moreI have a new niece, as I might have said already. Clearly we knew she was on her way a while ago and so I have been crocheting a blanket for this baby for a while. I chose to make a ripple blanket, crocheted in the round and using this …
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Sunshine Booties
21 August 2007
Read moreI’ve been a busy bee since meeting Natalie and have finally got round to making these booties as I promised. Here they are:
The pattern was really easy to follow and had photos at every stage which is just as well because it its a very peculiar shape until …
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Post-it Flowers
17 July 2007
Read moreThis morning I had a link from craftzine pointing me at this amazing tutorial for making origami flowers from post-its
So far I’ve made one petal but I’m supposed to be working so the others will have to wait til later … when I can get home to my …
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Flip flops to Espadrilles
21 April 2007
Read moreI have just seen this amazing pattern on floofle.blogspot.com – a definite maybe for my summer projects list!
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Baby Booties
19 April 2007
Read moreThe first installment of knitting for a new arrival due into the extended family this summer. They are actually green but I didn’t fiddle with the camera before I took the photo!
The pattern is from a supplement that came with Simply Knitting magazine a while ago – but as …