I was out for lunch recently and one of my friends, Sofia, gave me a bag of beads; all natural, some semi-precious like lapis lazuli, citrine, jade, onyx, among others. I accepted them with alacrity! I knew immediately that I wanted to knit them into a necklace, as about twenty years ago I knitted some […]
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Edition 33 of the Fibremood magazine has been released and I chose to make the Blaze which is a really good basic garment and I know I’ll wear it a lot. It is a formfitting, crew neck tee shirt with extra long sleeves. As you can see, it’s a pretty basic tee. I had several […]
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Every Easter I try to make a few things for my granddaughters to play with as they generally go to their other grandparents’ farm. This year I spread out the makes and then added a couple of things right at the end. I usually make some sort of Easter basket and this year I made […]
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I’ve just realised that it’s very nearly Me Made May 2025 and I haven’t done a blog roundup on 2024. As I use these posts for reference I’m just writing the post for my own benefit. Day 1: my husband wore a long sleeved tee I had made him and my denim Stokx Square Pants […]
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It’s my grandson’s birthday soon and I wanted to make him a top to supplement his other gifts which are dinosaur themed, so the top needed a dinosaur! I found a fun graphic which I imported into Cricut Design Space and added a shaped background layer to it, then printed it on to a fusible […]
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