Blanket Musings …

| January 26, 2011

I have been thinking through my current blankie situation. I have my mahoosive granny stripe blanket on the go and a summer garden blanket. Now, the summer garden was going to be a double sized blanket but I have decided against that now. Well, the granny stripe is going to be bigger than king sized [...]

So many ideas …

| January 22, 2011

… so little time. Do you ever have that problem?

Stripy Goodness

| January 14, 2011

I have completed about 50 stripes. How exciting! I am loving this blankie

FO: Pinboard

| January 12, 2011

Woohoo! This is my first FO of 2011! Yes, I know, it’s not knitting or crochet or anything fibre-y but in my resolutions I didn’t stipulate that it would be. It is, in fact, a pinboard! Using Kirstie Allsopp’s fantastic book Kirstie’s Homemade Home, which I received for Christmas, I made this fab pinboard. It [...]

Silver Lining

| January 11, 2011

Niamhy is full of the cold. She is teething and she is grumpy. So, to save my sanity and to give her a bit of fresh air we went into Worksop town centre for a bit of a mooch around. I do like mooching and wandering into charity shops, looking in shop windows and just [...]

Granny Stripe Progress

| January 5, 2011

The story so far … I am now onto stripe 20 of 4394325654643421432. Long way to go yet but really loving it. Taking a night off to do some papier mache though

New Year Resolutions

| January 5, 2011

I have decided to make some New Year Resolutions! Now, I normally wouldn’t post these on my blog but I have decided to make some crafty ones this year. I never really make crafty resolutions as I feel that it puts pressure on me to succeed. But this year I need a bit of direction [...]

Christmas Knitting

| January 5, 2011

Yes, I know that this post is rather late, but I’m only just getting round to doing it. And I couldn’t post it before Christmas as people would see it. This year I decided to make a lot of my Christmas presents. Don’t know if I’ll ever do it again – it got a tad [...]