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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 …
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Easter Chick
08 April 2007
Read moreHappy Easter! I’m away for a long weekend but this post was pre-recorded. I handmade my mum’s easter gift and wrote about it, but can’t publish until she’ll have got it!
Its a duckling from this pattern – knitted with fluffy wool on four needles. I used …
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Improvised Chicken
27 March 2007
Read moreThat title makes it sound like a recipe, but actually its a bird! I saw a pattern linked off CRAFT which was gorgeous so I rushed out and bought some snowflake yarn in yellow. When I came to read the pattern it was quite complicated and I was a bit …
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One Pair of Fingerless Mitts
20 March 2007
Read moreJust finished – and just in time as we’ve had snow here the last few days – my latest project! I knitted “fetching” from knitty.com, here they are:
(and yes, one little finger is always a bit crooked. The other one matched it until it got hit by a high-speed …
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Handknitters Handbook
11 March 2007
Read moreA while ago my not-mother-in-law bought me this book and its been great so I had to sing its praises here.
Its not glossy or colourful, in fact the illustrations are two-colour, but its really useful. I’ve recently come back to knitting from crochet and I live some distance …
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Yorkshire Wool Shops
04 March 2007
Read moreThere was a recent post to the Leeds Knitterati mailing list (the local knitting group) asking about local wool and equipment suppliers. I replied mentioning The Wool Shop and another member sent this which I had to share as its so good!
There’s also quite a good shop at …
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CRAFT Magazine
27 February 2007
Read moreI may have mentioned that I made it to the PHP Conference last week. O’Reilly had their own stand and were doing a healthy 30% discount on a selection of technical books. I was enchanted to see in the corner of the stand, copies of CRAFT – so I bought …
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String Basket
20 February 2007
Read moreThere’s a lot of craft entries going on here at the moment I know but actually I’ve just had a binge at finishing things off rather than actually creating things at speed.
Here’s my string basket:
Its going to hold all those little samples that you get …
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Big Wool Bag
19 February 2007
Read moreThe good news is that I’m nearly at the end of my pink big wool stash, so there might be some less-matching items appearing here soon. However today I’d like to show off the bag that I’ve made to go with the mittens and the hat.
The …
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Crochet Slowpoke
16 February 2007
Read moreI saw these slowpoke patterns linked from somewhere else a while back and I just had to buy them. Well the first one is finished – he’s a bit plain (think that was the rather primary colour choices) but he’s done and I think he’s cute:
I pre-recorded …
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Big Wool Earflap Hat
21 January 2007
Read moreOK so its Sunday name is “Swing”, but here’s my most recent knitting achievement. Its a hat, with long earflaps that make a scarf:
I has a nice bit of garter stitch around the brim:
And here’s a closeup of the fabulous pompoms:
