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The daily crafting journal of a felt-obsessed crafter! My new work, works in progress, experiments and ideas, and some random witterings along the way.
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Knit Knit Purl Purl
I'll be doing lots of knitting this week as several of my Christmas-gift-scarves are still very much works in progress:Lots of chunky man-friendly knitting on the go at the moment!Not sure I'm going to get round to knitting anything with these in tim...
Scarves!
Just time for a quick (& slightly crazy!) snap today - three of the scarves I've been knitting as Christmas gifts:...
Lazy Days
I've been feeling a little under the weather this week, so I've been trying to put my feet up.This is easier said than done in the run up to Christmas (so many emails to write and parcels to pack and things to make and admin to do) but I'm doing my b...
Unravelling
I've almost finished a scarf I've been slowly knitting over the past few weeks and though I'm very pleased with it, it's made me decide to unravel and re-do one I made earlier!I finished the grey one earlier in the year (made with the same yarn, in a...
A Big Parcel of Little Hats
Along with the usual bundle of orders to post, I had another package to take to the Post Office yesterday - 42 little hats for Innocent's Big Knit project:I have to admit to finding some half-finished ones leftover from last year (oops) and I didn't ...
Knitting Season
It's starting to get pretty darn chilly round here lately, and a drop in temperature always makes me dig out some knitting!I've blogged before about what a sporadic and lazy knitter I am, but it's always a pleasure to do a bit of easy knitting in the...
Ooh, the Big Knit is back
The Big Knit campaign run by Innocent Drinks is happening again this year, hurrah!People knit tiny hats for Innocent Smoothie bottles, and for each promotional bottle sold money is donated to keep older people warm during the winter. It's a great cau...
Stocking up on some Essentials
I was a little bit overexcited to find my butterfly mobile tutorial mentioned Craft, Apartment Therapy and AT's childrens decor blog ohdeedoh this week. So many lovely features, on so many lovely blogs! I am, as they say, dead chuffed (though what a ...
Second Scarf of the Year
I'm about half way through my second knitting project of 2009 - another scarf, in the same purple yarn as before, but this time in rib stitch (alternating 2 knit, 2 purl stitches).I am so unused to alternating between stitches that I keep forgetting ...
Snow!
Seemingly the whole country has had more snow than us today. Here it is mostly trying to snow, rather than properly succeeding. Sort of the snow equivalent of drizzle, or light showers. I am trying not to sulk, and have my fingers crossed for some mo...
A Quick Knitting Update
My back-to-basics scarf is almost finished...... I'm still absolutely loving that purple, which is lucky as there's still a big ball of it left!Also, thanks so much to everyone who commented yesterday - it's great to hear I'm not the only person who ...
A Prize in the Post
The lovely Laura of Robson&Mason Haberdashery picked my Credit Crunch Sampler as one of the winners in Folksy's "Make the News" competition earlier this month... and today my prize arrived from Folksy HQ, accompanied by one of the awesome Folksy ...
Here's One I Made Earlier
My super-simple scarf got quite a bit longer last night thanks to a nice chilled evening spent watching rubbish films and knit knit knitting with the giant yarn-egg sitting on the sofa with us like a cat.I have made some scarves before, during a brie...
A Giant Yarn Egg
I've finally made a start on my resolution to make 2009 all about improving my knitting skills... I've signed up to Ravelry (username: bugsandfishes), bought my first bit of yarn for the year and started with a nice simple project.It's chunky scarf t...
