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Becoming a Ninja factory...

Posted by vicki brown on

That's certainly what my front room felt like yesterday as I spread out all my newly purchased supplies and begun making a mammoth amountof ninjas! I even went out in the rain especially to buy those supplies! It was not at all nice...and I'm absolutely certain that cars were deliberately speeding up to go super fast through those many puddles that soaked me from head to toe! I thought people were...

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A Baby Blue Blanket...

Posted by vicki brown on

As promised...here are some pictures of the (still very much in progress) baby blanket I've been knitting. I'm by no means an expert knitter, but I do really enjoy doing it as, a result this blanket will be incredibly simple, but well loved I hope.

I've been using Rowan Milk Cotton, I'm not really sure what inspired someone to make a yarn out of milk protein, but it is so so beautifully soft and...

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Errr...yet more ninjas...

Posted by vicki brown on

Sorry to be so predictable...I will try to be more varied in the future I promise. But I did make some more ninjas yesterday and these are super special festive ones...with their own candy canes and everything!


I also made some new colourful ones...including a brand new colour altogether...purple!



Otherwise it really was just a lazy Sunday as promised...mostly just knitting. A blanket for the baby,...

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Why more ninjas of course...

Posted by vicki brown on

Seeing as the buy one get one free sale in my shop has quite depleted my stock of ninjas quite substantially, yesterday I made a few more...

Not as many as I'd have liked as I'm running very short on polymer clay, I didn't make it to the craft shop yesterday and unfortunately it's closed today, however I'm going to do my best to create what I can with what I have left though!

I also made this little...

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A good old clearout...

Posted by vicki brown on

This is exactly what I've doing this morning...ever since I've been making beads I've been filling up a jar with all the not so perfect and last of ones that I've produced, well today I emptied that jar and went through them all, bagging them up into lovely little sale bundles.


So over the next few days I will be listing all these lonely beads in need of a home, at super discount prices...as always...

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