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…
Tag: own design
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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!!…
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…
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,…