Making a skirt with Bella
I love teaching young people to sew. So when our Cotswold neighbour Bella said she wanted to learn I was thrilled. Over Christmas she came round to make a skirt. I know that she loves peachy shades so I popped … Continued
Happy Christmas Everyone!
Speaking of Christmas Jumpers, can I thank the Demented Fairy for sending me this ace knitting pattern? And here are some knitting jokes The jumper I got for Xmas kept picking up static electricity so I took it back to … Continued
The Christmas Jumper tradition
Last Friday we had Christmas Jumper Day to raise money for Save the Children. (Sorry if this post appeared early – I seem to have lost the ability to use WordPress properly at the moment). Here are Katrina and Maddy … Continued
More lovely Elizabeth Zimmermann jumpers
I have been waiting patiently for one of my friends Giorgia to finish her sweater as she strongly encouraged me to do the Knit a long. And “Ta Da!” her jumper is finished. It is such a beautiful one, isn’t … Continued
Making Christmas presents from scraps
One of the great benefits of the shoe making course is that I was able to pick up lots of discarded leather pieces. In the photograph below I include my feet, for scale. I think the dark brown is probably … Continued
What’s happened to the cardigan?
(sorry about my management of posts this weekend – post on colour coming on Tuesday) Since I last wrote about a cardigan, I made another EZ yoked sweater. Partly I was waiting for the Knit along knitters to finish their … Continued
Knitting Update…
My life has started to get almost unbearably busy. You know me – I fancy myself as being rather good at time management. But of course I am not that good because I am now dropping the ball, forgetting things, … Continued
Finishing the Carolyn Crocheted skirt
Phew! Having created a piece of fabric from over 100 little crocheted squares, each in three colours, I finally joined them together. If you do this – for a blanket or a garment – I used the following method. Sewing … Continued
The Carolyn Crocheted skirt
Inspired by Carolyn I decided to make a crocheted skirt. I loved her image and the gorgeous oranges and greens she used. I copied her design although with a few variations. DIfferent colours – I used small left over pieces … Continued
Finally knitting a skirt – or rather crocheting one
Alongside my desire to make a cardigan I have wanted to make a skirt for a while. Mrs Zimmerman’s skirt pattern Here is Elizabeth Zimmerman’s take on it. i make very few skirts, as not having the figure to wear … Continued
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