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Cardi in 4 days? Day 1 ::
Posted by vicki brown on
So I am going to a wedding on Saturday, for which I have decided to make myself a cardigan to wear with this gorgeous dress from digforvictory :
Of course I have left it entirely to the last minute and started yesterday! I did purchase myself some Aran weight yarn to try and make the whole process a little quicker and I also intended to crochet it. However after doing a little swatch, crochet on...
Rowan finds ::
Posted by vicki brown on
I was so lucky to discover these beauties in the charity shop last week.
Dating from 1992 and 2000, they are full of some real treasures. In all honestly I can't see myself making any of the garments from eleven, but they are a fabulous part of modern fashion history. So much colour work and lots of oversizing, goodness me I can't imagine how long some of these...
my boy the knitter ::
Posted by vicki brown on
seriously my heart nearly exploded when one morning last week, not long after breakfast, my little boy asked "shall we do knitting mum?", oh go on then if you insist!
Now it happens all the time, at least once a day he stumbles away from his current playtime toys and declares "I just want to do some knitting", throughout my own knitting/crochet I am asked, "what you making mum, is a present for...
Inside crochet 27 ::
Posted by vicki brown on
My third pattern to be published by inside crochet is in this months issue and is this super quick and easy child's raglan sweater.
I made a version up for Milo in the summer time as a sample, I used paton's shetland beehive, that I found in a charity shop, unfortunately this yarn is now discontinued, so for the inside crochet sample I used Wendy mode, which was lovely, so soft and snugly.
It's a...
happy pancake day to you ::
Posted by vicki brown on
We're going all out today, strawberry and blueberry pancakes for breakfast, Milo's making pancakes at nursery this morning and more pancakes this evening with the stuffed nonsense ladies...yum!