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Crunching the Numbers…

19/01/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized30 Comments on Crunching the Numbers…

I’ve been pretty inspired by reading some posts by other bloggers on the sum total of their clothing expenditure; particularly Waves with her very interesting breakdown of her clothing costs for 2011 and her feelings and thoughts on the same, and Terri…

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Blue-collar crime

15/01/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized49 Comments on Blue-collar crime

The charge; gratuitously making for myself the same shirt, a second time. Namely the Vogue 1248 triple collared shirt.  Well, how many collars does a girl really need?? (tsk tsk) No plea entered, as the defendant is so clearly guilty as charged.…

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Sorta Missoni

10/01/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized41 Comments on Sorta Missoni

Firstly, thank you so much for all those lovely comments on my cardigan!  I was overwhelmed to read so many kind words… and with regard to my little rant; also to stress that I am not down on Burdastyle per…

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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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On the rocks…

17/12/201127/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized12 Comments on On the rocks…

… in my on-going part-time quest to get great pictures with my dog; can you see her?  She is there in the picture… just. Camouflaged well in amongst the rocks… Blue and green together is such a great summer time colour…

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Iceberg garter-stitch jacket

13/12/201113/08/2020 CarolynUncategorized41 Comments on Iceberg garter-stitch jacket

With impeccable timing I have finished a toasty warm little knitted jacket.  Yeaah, just in time for these really hot hot summer days ahead, hehe…   I’m a bit sad about having to pack it away for a while, but that’s my own…

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A tale of a purple dress

06/12/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized47 Comments on A tale of a purple dress

Once upon a time, an avid seamstress took a trip far far away to Melbourne.  There she visited the fabled Tessuti’s and spenteth up big on fabric.  Including a piece of slippery dippery shot rayon-y stuff in a wonderful plummy-chocolate-y…

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