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Fat Quarterly Swap Goodies DONE!!!!

Saturday, May 19th, 2012

Aaaaahhhhh. Can you hear my sigh of relief! My notebooks are done and ready to head off to new homes. I’m feeling like I’m really organized!!! (Which I’m not really, but you know how satisfying it is to tick something off the list!!). Unfortunately the lighting here today is so strange that I can’t seem […]

Hoodie

Monday, April 30th, 2012

Ta daaaa….. Knitting Pure and Simple: Neck Down Hooded Tunic for Women. Manos del Uruguay: Wool Clasica (Handspun pure wool, kettle dyed) This one has been a while coming, but I had a lovely little knit this morning and got it finished off. What you can’t see from the photo is how snuggly and cosy […]

SIL socks

Sunday, April 22nd, 2012

A little late I’ve finished up the sister-in-law socks – they now need to go by rocket to Canada and get there by Wednesday….mmm not much chance, but better late than never! They are a basic plain vanilla sock of my own devising, with a K2 P2 rib in the leg, which should avoid the […]

The meditations of a long distance stippler!

Saturday, April 21st, 2012

Hopscotch by Camille Roskelley, made with Terrain by Kate Spain with iris and white solids, stipple quilted in white and bound in iris. I started quilting Hopscotch last night – using white thread and just stippling. I decided that this is a quilt that has more than enough going on without any Miss Fancypants quilting. I […]

And the answer turned out to be….

Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

Not a big strong man, but a will o’the wisp slender 17 year old ballerina… And no, I don’t really know how she did it, but she is rather good at physics, so maybe she worked out something clever….or maybe she just pulled with more force than I could… Helen