Category craftings
My weekend in Dublin
Around this time last year, my brother got a spangly new job and he and his girlfriend moved to Ireland. Being the bad sister that I am, up until now we had yet to visit, which is part due to the crazy Ryanair pricing and part hectic hecticness. We arrived late Friday night, spent a […]
A Knitted Plesiosaur
This is another project from Tina Barrett’s Knitted Dinosaurs book. After making the Pterodactyl, I wanted to make all of them, so am slowly making my way through the book, making them for each of my friends and familys children! (I so want one of each for myself, but I can’t really justify it!) The […]
A cover for my Kitchenaid!
So this is the project I was going to make on Saturday before I got distracted by the arrival of cross stitching fabric, threads, Numb3rs, and James Bond. My poor Kitchenaid (Kenneth, he’s big and strong and manly) when not in use lives, shamefully enough, in a reusable bag. Poor Kenneth. So I decided a […]
I got distracted….
I know I said I would work on a bit of a sewing project on Saturday… but the post arrived and with it some fabric for a cross stitch project that I had planned to make from this month’s edition of CrossStitcher. With it estimated to take 65 hours to stitch…. I thought I had […]
Learning to Crochet
This weekend we’re paying a visit to Mama and Papa M, and feeling a bit sub-par and lazy, it is half 4 in the afternoon and I am still in my pyjamas. Hey ho. It’s Saturday, and I’m not working, so I will have a pyjama day if I like. I have however been reading, […]
Gnome love.
I fancied a little cute quick project. Meet Mr Gnome. Too cute. Who doesn’t love Gnomes? I actually have two gnomes in my garden, they are Royal Wedding themed Gnomes from last year, I got them for a super bargainous price after the event, I had managed to resist… (just about) beforehand, but once those […]
Happy Happy House
I have had this pattern awaiting stitching for a little while, in fact, since I saw it in the April issue of CrossStitcher. To begin with it looks like a random collection of colourful shapes… I showed it to my cousins wife and she said “ooh lovely… it’s very… abstract… Are they trees?” Once it’s […]
Dinoknits.
My friend bought this book, Knitted Dinosaurs by Tina Barrett. And well… they were all just so darn cute! Not really scary at all. I needed it in my life. But I guess knitting a dinosaur for myself was kind of silly. I need children to justify these things. But I do have totally adorable […]
A Custom Wedding Sampler.
This project was based on a wedding sampler from CrossStitcher Magazine. It is also part of the reason I haven’t posted much lately, as it was a fairly big project, designing, stitching and then finally getting it framed, and was done as a surprise for my lovely Mr M. It was published around the time […]
Baking, Making, and Crafting 