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A Life in the Making

crochet

New images for the Quixie hat, with a more spring-like feel.  While I didn't mind the other pictures I had, the red was very difficult to capture on camera.  The pattern is soooo quick, that I whipped one up in about an hour the other night in a lovely shade of green.     And while the hat...

Work in Progress

Yarn is Rico Creative Cotton Aran (which is really a DK weight yarn, in my humble opinion).  Photos are SOOC (!!!)
I think it would be fair to say that my neighbours think that I am crazy.  At least once a week one or the other of them catches me engaging in what can only be described as eccentric behaviour.  Taking my meals outside to take pictures of them.  Standing on ladders and stools, camera in hand.  O...

The Goings On

Today I am: - packing up kits for the workshop tomorrow (kits available in the etsy shop from next week) - making up crochet samples - tidying up the house - ignoring the books that landed on my doorstep that I just want to sit down with and read over a cuppa - looking for my desk.   Hope yo...
Generally speaking, real life acquaintances who read the blog fall into 2 camps: those who never mention it and those who do.  And those in the second camp have a tendency to mention it a lot!  I have one friend (you know who you are) who rarely lets me get out a sentence before interrupting wit...

Wool and Sticks

Amazing, huh?   How just some spun wool   And some sticks with a wee hook carved into them Can make things like these:   And this ------ Wool in top pictures and hat is this from Ice Yarns.  Its nice.  The very dark brown is nicer. The hat pattern is my own. The bamboo hooks are from here...