Recent Posts Tagged With 'crafts'

• Warm Your Teapot with Your Knitting

  Posted on Monday August 10th, 2009 at 16:26 in design, style, crafts, knitting, crocheting, handicrafts, homeware, mundus vivendi, mundus habitandi

  This is the tea-warmer I saw recently, when visiting Llangollen in Denbighshire, Wales. Making one isn't hard, and would be a great exercise for someone who is only just learning to knit. The choice of yarn is up to you, so if you don't want to use w...

• Leather Trousers, Sweater, and Hat

  Posted on Friday December 26th, 2008 at 10:26 in crafts, knitting, knitwear, leather clothes, imago mundi, mundus muliebris, mundus interactivus

  To continue with the handmade bespoke knitwear I'd been making for donkey's years: I made this sweater with Scottish aran wool in 2003, when I'd just come to England. The back is plain, but the front and sleeves feature a......