I’ve made some shoes!!! This is my first foray into “proper” footwear. Yeah, I made slippers recently, but I’m not counting those. And technically these are slides, which are pretty basic things on the shoe scale, really. But still. They…
Year: 2014
Dusting slippers
I’ve made something useful; slippers, that clean! I pinned these mopping slippers a while ago, and have now got around to making my own. See, we have no carpets in our house and lots of animals; meaning furry dust-bunnies appear…
an Icelandic hoodie for Tim
*another week of furious knitting later* and I’ve made an Icelandic hoodie for Tim, my birthday present to him. He chose the Grein design on p108 of Knitting with Icelandic Wool, the knitting book I bought while in Iceland, but wanted…
burnt brown bootlegs
I’ve made some jeans/pants/jeggings type of things… hmmm, I’m still not sure what to call these! My oldest jeans, my olive/greys, are holding up so well, the best out of all my jeans! and I think it’s due to…
an Icelandic jumper for Sam
This is my first project from Knitting with Icelandic Wool, a knitting book I bought as a souvenir from Iceland on our recent trip away. The jumper is my birthday present to Sam and it’s um, only two months late… yikes!…
a split-backed top
Once upon a time there was a shirt, a man’s shirt. This shirt was superficially unremarkable, but was made out of a wonderful microfibre that had extraordinarily silk-like properties. Soft, ripply, with a quietly glossy sheen, it felt wonderfully cool…
Mum’s Alabama Chanin skirt
I am so glad that Mum brought around her finished Alabama Chanin skirt for me to ooh and ah over; and has allowed me to photograph her wearing it and to show it here on my blog too… thank you…
“watercolour” floral lingerie set
Another lingerie set, and a new-to-me bra pattern. This is pattern 2610 for a balconette style bra by makeBra, a Finnish lingerie pattern company. The two pairs of matching knickers are my usual McCalls 2772. The watercolour fabric is from…
