with knitting. Like all great love affairs I just didn’t see this one coming. I yearn after yarn, I pine for the perfect pattern, I swoon at the potential of swatches. I spend way too much time photographing the objects of my obsession. Whilst I’d love to get that drape-y lavender hued gorgeousness onto… Continue reading Laughably in love…
There has been much frustration. There has been some colourful language. There have been many cleansing breaths taken in the garden. For this week was the week that I tackled my first bound buttonholes. Attempt Number One. There’s not even enough fabric to draw through the hole. Pretty big fail, but you know, it’s early… Continue reading In a bind with a bound buttonhole
Knitted in the round using Addi 20 cm 3.25 mm circular needles from Wool Stack. You will need approximately 10 grams, 40-50 m of 4 ply/fingering weight yarn. The blue that I used here is Dazzle HT (High Twist) from the Natural Dye Studio Mini Skein Club and the white is remnant yarn of a similar… Continue reading Snow Leopard Lavender Pouch – Brief instructions and knitting chart
Woo Hoo! It’s time for Jungle January 2014 hosted by the Amazing Anne of Pretty Grievances. My first entry for your consideration is (drum roll please)… Style 4844, Size 12, Bust 34, 1974, View 3. View 3 required the use of one of the weirdest pattern pieces I have yet come across, this armhole facing: Which after some… Continue reading My Jungle has Birds and Butterflies
How was your day? High – well, finding that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow was pretty cool. Low – I could have done without falling down the abandoned mineshaft. Translates brilliantly to sewing too, thanks to Crafting A Rainbow. I’m going to use the sometimes controversial ‘Boss’ scale to rate these:… Continue reading High/Low – a game we like to play
What *is* my problem? The women on the pattern envelope could have stepped straight from the rough-to-the-touch pages of my Bunty, Judy or Misty magazines. Well maybe not Misty as that was a little darker, the strap line on the envelope would have had to read ‘Little did Taffy know, the ring was bewitched’. Why… Continue reading Step Away from the Seventies.
No, not a new show on Tacky TV. A unimportant conundrum I challenge you to solve. You might want to pop on some sunglasses, it’s going to get bright. I have had these leggings a long, long, long time. They are vintage/original/so-old-the-elastic-is-starting-to-crackle Benetton. Now, without going into the loft and fighting through several boxes of… Continue reading Dating leggings.
fezzes are cool. Oh, and a bow tie. Bow ties are cool. And a dress. Dresses are cool. This dress being an edited version of Simplicity 5803, view 1. I drafted a skirt section and added armhole facings to the neck facings to make it sleeveless. Two new (to me) stitches were employed. I forgot… Continue reading I wear a fez now,
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