I can’t remember whether I’ve mentioned that I’m going on holiday next week – I’m off to Hay-on-Wye (home of many bookshops, book collecting being my Other Hobby) and on Sunday I’m going to Wonderwool, which is conveniently held fairly close by. I’ve been once before, three years ago, so I know what to expect, [...]
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Holiday sewing
Posted in Finished Objects, Sewing, tagged Sewing on April 23, 2012 | 10 Comments »
Pretty knits
Posted in Crochet, Finished Objects, Knitting, Sewing, tagged cardigan, crochet, Peasy, Sewing, skirt, socks on March 31, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Two knitted FOs to share tonight, the first is the socks I spun the yarn for a couple of weeks ago – The fibre is BFL, hand-dyed by the lovely Fiona at Grace and Jacob in York. I spun it as a fine single then chain plied it to get about 220m of fingering weight [...]
A learning curve
Posted in Finished Objects, Sewing, tagged dressmaking, Sewing, skirt on February 28, 2012 | 12 Comments »
I’ve been working up to doing some more dressmaking for a while now (I’ve even bought a dressmaker’s dummy, but it needs some, um, padding to make it even vaguely the same shape as me – more of that to come at a later date) and on Thursday last week I stumbled across the Sew [...]
Quilts for Christmas
Posted in Finished Objects, Sewing, tagged quilting, quilts, Sewing on December 11, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Chickadee is all done, including the buttons, and I did have a go at photographing it yesterday, but I was tired and my hair needed a wash, so I’ve decided not to inflict those photos on you! I was going to have another go today, but it’s pouring down outside – maybe tomorrow. Here’s a [...]
Monday update
Posted in Knitting, Sewing, Spinning on December 5, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I’ve had a busy week! Only one completed item, but lots of things in progress – finished things first, I’ve been knitting these socks since I went to Norfolk in May, I’ve done a bit more now and then and I finally got round to finishing them off. They’re not very seasonal, being short cotton-mix [...]
Make do and mend
Posted in Sewing, tagged alterations, Sewing on November 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of weeks ago I was looking for something in a box in the loft, and I came across this old skirt. It’s a beautiful wool fabric, but even when I bought it it was too small (it was a bargain from TK Maxx years ago, and I used to wear it without fastening [...]
Back in my comfort zone
Posted in Finished Objects, Sewing, tagged cushion, Sewing, silk on November 1, 2011 | 10 Comments »
After yesterday’s disappointment with the skirt, I decided to treat myself by making a cushion cover with this gorgeous silk I bought from The Silk Route at the Knitting and Stitching Show in Harrogate last year. It’s a fat quarter of silk dupion and five 10” squares of various sorts of silk, and I’d had [...]
Not my finest hour
Posted in Finished Objects, Sewing, tagged clothkits, Sewing, skirt on October 31, 2011 | 4 Comments »
So I finished the Clothkits skirt. But I have to say I’m less than impressed with either the kit or the finished object. The second is probably at least partly my fault, as I don’t really like or wear straight skirts (not really having a straight sort of figure…), and I didn’t spot just quite [...]
Knitting, ripping and sewing
Posted in Knitting, Sewing, tagged clothkits, Handspun, Knitting, scarf, Sewing, shawl on October 30, 2011 | 8 Comments »
I’ve had a busy weekend, crafting-wise. Yesterday I spent a good portion of the day catching up on the week’s TV and knitting my two handspun projects – the first is the shawl I started a few weeks ago, which is growing slowly, although the rows are getting long now. It’s not much to look [...]
Ups and Downs
Posted in Finished Objects, Knitting, Sewing, Spinning, tagged Sewing, Spinning on June 30, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I’ve been busy knitting my pink garter stitch cardigan whilst watching Wimbledon, and before starting the second sleeve, I decided that I would have a go at grafting the stitches on the first one after all. It took me an hour to concede defeat – I tried several different websites, and all combinations of knit [...]
