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It’s a jungle…

06/09/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized4 Comments on It’s a jungle…

Self Stitched September: Day 6; Trying to zip my way through my winter options now as the weather heats up, and truthfully I’m a little roasting in this jumper here today…! I was very inspired by the Marc Jacobs A/W…

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Darning; a how to

31/08/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized12 Comments on Darning; a how to

First of all, I’d like to thank you for your brilliant suggestions for my style statement!  As I read them I just thought, well, how nice everyone was … thankyou all for “getting” me.  It’s really hard to assess yourself…

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Semi-Fauve socks

30/08/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized6 Comments on Semi-Fauve socks

Just in time to see in the last days of winter (yay!) last night I finished some new SOCKS!!  I’m dubbing these the “Semi-Fauve socks”; as obviously only half of each sock bears the wild vivid gaudy colours that was…

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Bluey/pink loopy scarf

25/08/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized7 Comments on Bluey/pink loopy scarf

I’ve made quite a lot of these loopy scarves, here and here are two of them… this is the one I made for Mum’s birthday a few years back.  She looks lovely in this group of blues and purply pinks,…

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Moebius strip, in wearable form

20/08/201019/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized11 Comments on Moebius strip, in wearable form

Oh, I finished a new scarf.  Or cowl, more accurately.  A ginormous cowl.  I finished it a coupla weeks back and put it in one of my photos yesterday, in the outfit that seemed to have been the most popular…

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Domestic diva

12/08/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized12 Comments on Domestic diva

Should one make the effort to look stylish when one’s daily schedule involves simply popping into the supermarket, the post office and the bank?  Or if one’s place of work is in the home?  After all, if the peeps around…

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The wind and the tides as our companions…

07/08/201021/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized6 Comments on The wind and the tides as our companions…

Walking along a wintery morning beach. The wind whips at our hair, tying curly tangles in sudden lusty gusts, prompting me to seek the warm sanctuary of my cosy handknit hoodie about my ears and saving the hair from a…

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Cool Bunnykins

06/08/201020/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized7 Comments on Cool Bunnykins

This is a very late post today!  Been a busy day… This is a beanie/scarf thingy I knitted for my daughter Cassie several years ago.  Knitted from a variety of different yarns, to my own design… I used four balls…

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