Well, it is St Patrick’s day. Lately, I have been failing to spend much time knitting things for me – rather than for my online shop, so have tried to mix in a bit more of making for me things, and now have another pair of socks to wear as a result. This yarn was [...]
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green
Posted in knitting, make it yourself, tagged knitting, socks on 17 March 2012 | 13 Comments »
the room of doom
Posted in crochet, dyeing, general wittering, house and home, knitting, make it yourself, spinning, weaving on 28 February 2012 | 2 Comments »
Over the last couple of days we have been tackling the room of doom aka the spare room. ‘Spare’ makes it seem surplus to requirements – not so – we have both worked from home in that room, it is the main storage area of our home dyed wool, in various stages of process, our [...]
gift makes
Posted in knitting, make it yourself on 5 January 2012 | 3 Comments »
I always feel that the festive season is pretty much over by New year’s day. That’s the last of it, after that it is time to take down the greenery and lights and get back to normal. Of course you have a few days before twelfth night to find everything. We thought we had everything.. [...]
fibrefest
Posted in crochet, general wittering, grow your own food, knitting, make it yourself, spinning, vegetables on 21 August 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Somehow, something has always cropped up to prevent us going to fibrefest, but this year we actually made it. Just for one morning.. which was long enough for me to ‘accidentally’ buy some alpaca fibre for spinning.. and some pretty blue faced Leicester yarn.. himself bought a loom…. So now, with the looms we have [...]
pleasant indoors day
Posted in general wittering, grow your own food, home education, house and home, knitting, spinning on 17 June 2011 | 3 Comments »
I like it when the rain sets in properly, and you can stop agonising over whether its indoors or outdoors things today. Whilst my son and I were doing the home ed thing: watching “Henry VIII: Mind of a Tyrant [DVD] [2009] “looking at banking and bank accounts, cooking and making brownies and so on, [...]
..and the winner is
Posted in general wittering, knitting, make it yourself, spinning on 9 May 2011 | 4 Comments »
Jo! After spending a bit of time looking for a random number generator.. I finally realised the easy option and put all the names in a hat.. well ok a paper bag.. and my son chose one. So, something woolly I said and after some hasty stabbing (aka needle felting) last night, the prize is one [...]
knit along blankie
Posted in knitting, make it yourself, tagged knitting on 2 March 2011 | 3 Comments »
I’ve never taken part in a knit along before., although I have seen them around. I quite like the idea of doing a mystery KAL at some point . Though the mystery to me is why there are three initials for two words.. Anyhow, I have decided to join in one on the downsizer forum. [...]
jumper test
Posted in knitting, make it yourself, self-sufficiency, tagged knitting on 28 February 2011 | 4 Comments »
Well, you asked me not to keep you in suspenders, this is the test piece for the jumper himself wants. We are happy with it. So all I need to do now is work out what size to knit up, probably make up a pattern, dye lots of wool. Card lots of wool. Blend lots [...]
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