Finally! I’ve written up the first pattern that I created for my destash for charity project – the Elegant Ribbed Hat. My goal was to reduce my yarn stash by knitting for charity – creating a few patterns at the same time. While I want the patterns to be easy enough for most…
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Retro Monday – Knitted Dresses
I’ve never wanted to knit a dress. I think that knitting a dress requires far more work than I’m prepared to undertake, so I’m especially impressed when someone knits their own wedding dress. Besides, knitted dresses have kind of had their moment – that moment being about 50 years ago according to…
Help Name this Pattern – and Get a Free Copy!
I had a huge clean up of all my knitting stuff recently and I unearthed six “half-written” patterns and several WIPs. I have decided that these things needed to be sorted out by the end of the year so I I’ve been quite focused on getting the WIPs completed and the patterns…
A New Year of Knitting
Hello again, No I’m not dead, in gaol or giving up knitting and blogging. I simply lost my mojo. After the Bendigo Sheep Show in July I got really, really sick and it took months to feel better again. I swear my lungs must have come from the seconds bin because they…
What I Bought in Bendigo
I’ve now been back from Bendigo for five days and I’m still sick. Getting better but not much fun to be around. When I got home I just tossed everything into the sunroom and have only now started unpacking, sorting and labelling the yarn that came back home with me. Although I…
Three More
Three more UFOs are off the list. This is pretty impressive – well, I’m impressed. It means of the sixteen UFOs I started out with on 4 December 2011, there are only three left to do. It feels great to be getting them finished or frogged and I’ve actually enjoyed the process….