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…
Tag: own design
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…
Communing with the lorikeets
Today I asked Tim if I could borrow the scarf I made for him years ago to photograph for the blog here; he is far too busy for me to needle him to model it… and found this lovely bench…
Black with rose-pink accents
My husband wittily suggested I title my post “Amish chic”, he he cheeky… It’s my hat. But we’ve lived amongst the Amish and I never saw an Amish lady in jeans. “Amish menswear chic”? I hope not. I prefer to…
“Snow Bunny” beanie
I know, I know, the name I’ve given my new beanie is kind of ridiculous and inappropriate, given today’s weather you can see in my photo here; blazingly brilliant sunshine in clear periwinkle skies… it’s OK, I’m happy to have…
“Jewel” knitted waistcoat
Here is a waistcoat I knitted for my mother, ooh, probably about seventeen or so years ago. Round about the time Kaffe Fassett was having a big impact on the creative textile world. I took this photo of her wearing…
Grey wool coat for Spring
I made myself a coat for spring, using McCalls 5525, view B and grey wool fabric, bought back in March on a whim. So, it took some cutting magic to get this coat out of the small amount of wool…
Noro baggy beanie
So, here is the other baggy beanie I’ve made for this winter. This is made using one ball of Noro Kuryon? I think? I bought it a few months ago, and have lost the tag so colourway is unknown, sorry!……
