Me Made wardrobe update

As promised in my last wardrobe post, we had another coat making day with 4 coats made.  I made the short version of the Nova Coat in a purple pinstripe Japanese wool that I purchased […]

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Hand knitted socks

4 years ago I decided that I was going to knit myself a pair of socks.  Fast forward 3 years to Lockdown 1.0 and the half a sock that was languishing in my WIP pile […]

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Christmas Crafting

Now that Christmas is done and dusted for another year, I thought I would share with you some of the gifts I made.  Most of these were made while we were under lockdown in April/May […]

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Me made wardrobe

As well as adding to my wardrobe with thrifted items last year, I also did some sewing and knitting to give it a boost as well.  I had a bit of time under our first […]

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Twin Blankets

Whenever my friends M & D come to visit in Winter, they always make full use of my knitted and crocheted blankets.  They had both requested a blanket of their own and in February we […]

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Backyard visitors

Since we have been in lockdown we have noticed more birds around.  I don’t know whether it is because we are at home all day so we are noticing them more or if there has […]

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Easy peasy soup

It’s cold and raining here today so I whipped up this delicious soup for lunch.  It was so easy and cheap,  I thought I would share.  You can make it vege by leaving out the […]

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Pizza Calzone

All I can say is you need to make these.  They are easy and delicious and they freeze really well.  I have made a couple of batches since we have been in lockdown and we […]

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Lockdown pickles

My normal saturday ritual involves a visit to my local vege market to get our fruit and veges for the coming week.  Since we have been under lockdown the vege market has been closed.  We […]

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