Japanese Christmas Decorations
We visited Japan in September last year and when I travel I like to get a Christmas decoration or memento to hang on my tree. I couldn’t find anything Christmasy so I decided to make […]
Category: Handmade
Plum and Ginger Chutney
As soon as Christmas is done and dusted for the year, I am thinking about the next one. I like to collect up recipes and gift ideas throughout the year and write them in my […]
Same Same but different
I have been wanting to try knitting some 8 ply socks for a while but struggled to find any 8 ply sock yarn here in NZ. West Yorkshire Spinners recently released a new range of […]
Christmas gifts / Handmade / Homemade / Knitting / Me made wardrobe / recycling / Sewing / Socks / thrifting / Vintage
June Project Round-up
June was a super productive month! I made another A line skirt and a matching vest from some lovely soft and super warm wool that I got at the local second hand fabric sale. It […]
Crochet / Handmade / Homemade / Me Made May / Me made wardrobe / recycling / Sewing
May project roundup
Me Made May was a good month to get some projects done. We have a fabric fair at one of the schools local to me every few months and when I went in November I […]
April Project Roundup
April was a very productive month project wise. I made myself a cape using a self drafted pattern and some boiled wool that I got for Xmas a couple of years ago. I used some […]
March Project Round up
I wasn’t very productive in March. I finished my Snug Turtleneck sweater in burnt orange Mohair. I got the pattern from the book A Knitters Year by Ida Wirak Trettevik that I borrowed from the […]
Crochet / Handmade / Homemade / Me made wardrobe / Sewing
February Project Round Up
Three projects completed in February, was a bit of a busy month social wise so I didn’t spend as much time as I would have liked in the sewing room. It was my friend J’s […]
January project round-up
I thought I would do a round up of my January projects as they were a varied bunch. I took advantage of the Boxing Day sales to get some yarn at 40% off to knit […]
Handmade / Homemade / Knitting / Me made wardrobe / Socks
2023 Sock Knitting Challenge
In December 2022, I set myself a challenge to knit 12 pairs of socks in 2023. I decided to do it as a stash busting exercise as I had 12 pairs of socks worth of […]