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an Icelandic hoodie for Tim

15/08/201415/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized27 Comments on an Icelandic hoodie for Tim

*another week of furious knitting later*  and I’ve made an Icelandic hoodie for Tim, my birthday present to him.   He chose the Grein design on p108 of Knitting with Icelandic Wool, the knitting book I bought while in Iceland, but wanted…

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Three pin-striped shirts

27/12/201315/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized55 Comments on Three pin-striped shirts

My Christmas present to my boys this year is a tailored shirt for each one; in pin-striped linen with contrasting white collar, cuffs, and buttonbands, and a double welted breast pocket with looped button closure. Three shirts in addition to…

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Gemini

19/06/201315/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized40 Comments on Gemini

Gemini, the twins.   Of course my boys are not twins obviously, they are separated by several years and have one sister in between them too.  But they are both Geminis!  That picture cracks me up btw… so brotherly…  ðŸ˜€…

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Chocolate with a little zing; Tim’s Christmas shirt

25/12/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized23 Comments on Chocolate with a little zing; Tim’s Christmas shirt

I made a shirt for our eldest son for a Christmas pressie… using Burda 7767 (surprise!!) and some lovely deeply sludgy, purply-chocolate linen bought from the Fabric Store in Melbourne during our September visit there, and I found the perfect…

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Slender Man

31/10/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized38 Comments on Slender Man

Have you ever played Slender? Hands down.  Scariest.  Game.  Ever! Our family has been playing this free-downloadable a bit…  and if you can first-time play this in a darkened room without emitting even one girly scream….? well actually I do not believe…

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‘nother hoodie

18/09/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized19 Comments on ‘nother hoodie

I’ve been on such a sewing bendahh lately!! making loads of stuff for the family as well as myself.   Must be the influence of spring; new growth in the garden and blissfully warm days lend themselves to thoughts of…

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The DNA Tower

16/05/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized24 Comments on The DNA Tower

Please allow me to introduce to you, the DNA Tower.   Hehe, I am being sorta touristy on the blog lately! but not completely since obviously Perth has always been the backdrop to my life…  The DNA Tower was built in…

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Tim’s shirt

29/12/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized11 Comments on Tim’s shirt

I made a shirt for Tim; again Burda 7767 (blush).  And I’m embarrassed to confess that there are still a couple more versions of this in the wings too… sorry!  I hope lots of mens’ shirts will not get too…

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