Warming up for winter
I recently went to a Yarn Tasting at Knit World. In case you are wondering what a yarn tasting is, you don’t eat the wool, you knit a small sample with it to see how […]
Category: Handmade
Temperature Blanket Update #2
Three weeks in and the blankets are looking great. Things are heating up in the Northern Hemisphere with some much warmer colours starting to creep into Sister’s blanket last week. We had some terrible rain […]
Cotton Dishcloth Lovin’ Part 6
As promised, here is my latest batch of knitted dishcloths. While I was poking round on the internet looking for dishcloth patterns, I found this website (it hasn’t been updated for a while) which led me […]
Cotton Dishcloth Lovin’ part 5
It’s Official. I am addicted to knitting dishcloths. As soon as I cast off from one, I cast on for another. I have been experimenting with a range of patterns including a couple I have […]
Temperature Blanket – The Beginning
Okay we couldn’t wait until the 1st May so the Northern Hemisphere vs Southern Hemisphere Temperature Blanket Challenge has begun. It was 21 degrees yesterday in Wellington so I started my blanket with Saffron. Looking […]
Quilt for a Nephew
When my 2 nieces were very small, I made them a quilt each. Their brother wan’t born yet. Each summer their mum gets the quilts out of storage to put on their beds. Last year, […]
Scrap Blanket
I was inspired by Amanda of Soulemama to collect up all my bits of wool, ends of balls and scraps that are too small to make into anything else and have cast on for a […]
Cotton Dishcloth Lovin’ Part 4
The pattern for this dishcloth was on the ball band of a ball of Sugar’n Cream that I had in my cotton stash. The original pattern called for a cast on of 49 stitches and […]
Temperature Blanket
Over the Christmas break I was checking my Pinterest feed and noticed a thing called a Temperature Blanket. I was intrigued so clicked on the picture and was immediately hooked. I quickly messaged my sister […]
Peanut Butter crates
I always prefer to give handmade Christmas gifts where possible and last year, one of the gifts I gave was peanut butter. I wanted a cool and different way of packaging it, rather than just […]