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Year: 2012

Calico cotton cardigan

06/01/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized58 Comments on Calico cotton cardigan

The good news: I’ve knitted a cardigan! I bought this perfectly lovely ivory cotton yarn at the beginning of last spring, and started this cardigan when I had finished the garter stitch jacket.  I can be a pretty quick knitter…

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A double-sleeved shirt

04/01/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized18 Comments on A double-sleeved shirt

Remember I said I had made 6 shirts over the past month and a half?  well here ’tis t’ sixth! This blue shirt was was intended for one of my boys and was pretty much finished, but I was getting…

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Flat-felling a curved seam

03/01/201217/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized27 Comments on Flat-felling a curved seam

Flat-felling gives such a nice finish to tailored items, but if you try it out on a seam with a bit of a concave curve happening it can end up looking messy and not much of an improvement to the…

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2011; a year in review

01/01/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized31 Comments on 2011; a year in review

A favourite picture from each month of last year.  May has two, because I could not choose between them… January; here. February;  here March; here. April; here May; pretty chuffed with my ballgown, here.  I made the accessories and the evening…

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