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A Life in the Making

knitting

Its a well documented fact that everything I finish is my "favourite thing I've ever made".  Every hat, every set of wings, everything.  I start a new project with certainty that it can never be as nice as the last thing I made. And this is no exception.  After a frustrating start I was a bit dub...
I feel like this post should have background music...something like this (which I found on You tube by searching for "dun dun dun"... I kid you not)   Ok, so this is possibly the geekiest post I have ever written.  Yes, even geekier than this one about yarn.  Or this one about crochet hooks.  Pos...

Who's Counting?

1 cup of coffee 4 cheese scones 3 sleeps until Grammy arrives from America 4 hats to finish before then 1 year and 3 days since we moved into the house 9 days until Theo turns 1 4 ladybugs spotted in the garden today 1064 stitches knit since last night 3 sinkfulls of dishes washed today 2 loads...

Yarn: The Motherload

  I did give fair warning that it was arriving.  I prepared for it, sorted through the stash, warned the husband...but the arrival of over 2kg of spun gold STILL surprised and delighted me to no end. Most of this is for things that I have to keep quiet (which I totally suck at, so NEVER tell m...
A grim determination has gripped me.  Jaw set, needles and hooks in hand, I have decided to knit and crochet my way out of this funk. And while there are a lot of things going on around here knit and crochet-wise, there isn't much I can show you, bar this.  The easy of easiest, knit in the car a...

Blue Sky Knitting

Oh how I love making Milo.  I love its shape. I love its possibilities.  I love how I can just make it, without having to think too hard about what I am going to do with it.   This Milo was knit up mostly in the car over the weekend.  I suffer terribly from motion sickness, so reading or complic...