With just hours to spare I have managed to knit a pair of socks in March, the most knitting I’ve done this year I think. These socks have been a running joke at my knitting group meetings as I cast on the first one in December and didn’t finish it until three days ago. Every …
No knitting February!
I’ve had a very slack month on the knitting front and haven’t knitted more than an inch of a sock! It has been a busy month in other regards so I don’t feel too bad that my only completed yarn project for the month was a small and very simple crocheted dishcloth! Not very impressive …
Two new blouses made from my stash
After a very slow start to the year I have upped my sewing game and made not one but two new blouses this week! The good thing about this is that I’ve used some pieces of Liberty that have been in my stash for years. Now I just need to keep on making a few …
Bags of requests
This month I’ve made three bags, each of them a request from a friend or family member and all different. In addition to the backpack I finished earlier in the month from my stashed fabric, I have made a small project bin for a friend from her stashed fabric and a larger divided basket for …
Nana’s first baby knit!
This month my knitting project was a sweet little baby cardigan that I’ve made for my brand new grand-daughter, Rita. It is the first time I’ve knitted anything in pieces and then joined them and I can’t say I’m a convert; it seems much harder and slower than circular knitting. I loved the little scale-like …
Off track in the New Year
I’ve started off 2024 by ignoring all my planned makes, frogging my current projects repeatedly, and breaking my purchase moratorium buying lots of new fabric as a birthday present for myself. The only “good” news is that my first make of the year has been a great learning experience and set a pretty high bar …
The 2023 craft project review
It would have been much easier to write a review of my crafting year if I’d thought to keep this blog earlier than September. Oh well, at least Ravelry has my back for most of my knitting and crochet projects. Here are my completed yarn projects for the year: 17 projects using just over 13,000m …
Another day, another sewing project finished
I know these are small projects but I’m still pretty pleased to be finishing so many of them. If I keep this up I may get my stash reduced sometime in the next few years 😂 This project was also a kit from Cutting Cloth that I bought just because it uses a Noodlehead pattern …
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Another Christmas gift
Today I made a handy little needlework pouch from a kit I picked up at Cutting Cloth. Well mostly from the kit; I did need to add some fabric myself, partly due to my misunderstanding the kit contents and partly due to deficiencies in the kit. The kit included the pattern, Make and Go Pouch …
Christmas gift making
This year I don’t have too many Christmas gifts to think about and I really want to reduce my fabric stash so I have made a small fabric bucket/bin bag to pack with local gourmet treats from the Bellarine as a gift. I’ve used some offcuts from my earlier quilting project and some leftover canvas …