Trials and Tribulations with Quilting, Machine Embroidery, Sewing and Knitting
Posted in Inspiration, miscellaneous on Jan 11th, 2012
Where did 2011 go? Last year I made Four pairs of socks (I was aiming for 12) Two quilts and a quilt top Two dolls A skirt Finally finished Miss A’s birth sampler Embroidered and Appliqued four T-Shirts Finished knitting my scarf Made an apron for the school fete. Made fourteen hair clips Two cushions [...]
Posted in Knitting, miscellaneous, Sock Knitting on Jun 13th, 2011
I’ve been slowly making progress on my May sock – I’ve actually turned the heel and am now working on the foot (it was just too dark to take a photo). I think it was an error to choose this sock pattern. Although, it is easier than my March/April sock , it still requires a [...]
Posted in Baking, miscellaneous on Jan 27th, 2011
As it was Australia Day yesterday, I made a pavlova. No image we ate it before I could take a photo. I used the recipe out of the How to Eat cook book by Nigella Lawson. It’s a really easy thing to make – crunchy on the outside but full of sticky sweet goodness on [...]
Posted in miscellaneous on Jan 1st, 2011
Some finished objects for 2010 Back on January the 1st 2010 I wrote craft resolutions for the year. Here is that post … My plan for 2010 is to consume less. So to make that happen I’m not going to buy any fabric this year or knitting yarn. I don’t have a stash of quilt [...]
Posted in miscellaneous on Oct 28th, 2010
I spend most of my afternoons watching my girls completing various different activities; music, ballet, swimming etc. This should be prime knitting time, however, it mostly is reading time or chatting to other mums time. Hence I have no progress to show.
Posted in miscellaneous on Oct 12th, 2010
I rely completely on the Calendar of my Ipod touch. Today my ipod froze and I had to restore it to it’s factory settings. Then the backup didn’t work (there was some error). Everything else was OK, but not my calendar! All of those appointments and the birthdays! As you can imagine I wasted a [...]
Posted in miscellaneous on Jan 1st, 2010
My plan for 2010 is to consume less. So to make that happen I’m not going to buy any fabric this year or knitting yarn. I don’t have a stash of quilt wadding, so I’ll still need to buy that and the thread for quilting. I’m also not going to buy any more craft books. [...]
Posted in miscellaneous on Sep 29th, 2009
I finished A’s scarf – I’m really pleased with how the pattern turned out. I used a variagated yarn, so I didn’t expect the diagonal colour effect. The yarn is Panda Magnum and the pattern is from here.
Posted in Childrens Craft, miscellaneous on Jul 14th, 2009
It’s Miss A’s birthday soon and I wanted to have something for her party bag that is not sugar or cheap plastic rubbish. I made these fabric covered button hair lackys. Very easy. I bought the self-covering button kits from Spot Light. The trick though was to find thin enough hair lackys to fit through [...]
Posted in miscellaneous on Jul 2nd, 2009
I finished the friend of this sock. I was quite pleased that I was able to pick the project up again after six months and make an (almost) identical friend. I took notes! I think my next knitting project is going to be a scarf…