Y’ello! Calling all sunbeamers 😀 I am taking part in the Travelling Yellow Skirt Freak Show! the brainchild of Melanie aka Miz Bagg at Bag and a Beret; and you can read the story behind the yellow skirt and its…
olive faux suede top
I’ve made a new top 🙂 Yoshimi and I saw this very realistic faux suede while out shopping together in Tokyo last January and we both bought some to make tops. Yoshimi made her lovely pale pink top quite quickly.…
Denim slides!
I’ve made some shoes!!! Â This is my first foray into “proper” footwear. Â Yeah, I made slippers recently, but I’m not counting those. Â And technically these are slides, which are pretty basic things on the shoe scale, really. But still. Â They…
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. Â 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…
