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welt pocket in a shearling coat

01/01/2016 Carolynsewing20 Comments on welt pocket in a shearling coat

SO!  I’m currently making a shearling jacket to take to our much anticipated trip to snowier climes, coming up v v soon… eeeeeeeeeeeeeee! I can’t wait!! Anyway, I’ve put a couple of welt-like pockets in, and found it necessary to devise a…

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3 hoodies

27/12/201527/12/2015 Carolynsewing28 Comments on 3 hoodies

In other Christmas “making” I also made hoodies for my three menfolk; Craig, and for Tim and Sam.  For the last few years I’ve made summer shirts for them, but this year I wanted to do something different.  And all…

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a bevy of beanies

25/12/201526/12/2018 Carolynknitting10 Comments on a bevy of beanies

A bounty of beanies!  Buckets of beanies!  Beanies galore!  Beanies beanies beanies!  Beanies! Beeeeeeeeanies… So, I might have beanies on the freaking brain lately.  I’ve been on a beanie making bendahhh!  A beanie-a-thon.  Makin’ some beanehhhhs!  Yeah..   And I got my recent new man-about-the-house,…

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tie-dye cardigan

03/12/201515/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized28 Comments on tie-dye cardigan

I’ve made another little cardigan… the last, I promise! for at least a little while!  I didn’t really need another one but I said I’d thought of yet another little way the construction of this design could be improved? naturally I just…

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tie-front cardigan from a Tshirt pattern; a brief tutorial

18/11/201515/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized30 Comments on tie-front cardigan from a Tshirt pattern; a brief tutorial

Remember recently I made a little paprika cardigan? and I wasn’t super happy with my construction technique of the fronts and could visualise a far better method of getting that front edge nice and neat … well, of course I could not…

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paprika cardigan

04/11/201515/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized35 Comments on paprika cardigan

I took some time out from making something far more time-consuming and complicated, ahem Alabama Chanin, cough cough…. ooo did I once say I would never get addicted to Alabama Chanin??? yaas, going back on my word, guilty as charged!!…

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do you Art?

02/10/201515/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized27 Comments on do you Art?

Imagine that said in an vehhy posh accent along the lines of “are you being served modom?”…   Little anecdote; many years ago I took part in a group craft project, and another lady in the group had clear and…

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all Aussie adventures

16/09/201528/04/2016 Carolynfashion, knitting, sewing, shoes68 Comments on all Aussie adventures

MY OUTFIT IS FINISHED!!! And I am showing it all together here for the first time.  Can I just say right here; wooooohooooot! The challenge, as laid out by Nicki of this is moonlight, should you choose to accept it,…

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