Author Archives: Pippa
2020 Makes
2020 Review

I don’t know what it is about the arbitrary change of calendar year that prompts such renewal of ambition in all of us, I have all but given up on New Year’s resolutions and don’t agree with the New Year, New Me hype but yet here I am with a renewed sense of purpose now that 2021 has really started… Read more »
Mixage Sweater

Although most crafters that both sew and knit consider knitting to be a winter craft and sewing is for the summer, I have always tended to be the other way round. The portable nature of knitting means that it is perfect for taking sailing with me over the summer, but even I was a bit surprised to find myself knitting… Read more »
Me-Made-May Week 2

I am a little behind the times with actually writing this post but hey-ho… Here is a round up of week two of my Me-Made-May 4th May: Today I wore two of my newest garments my Wave of Change Jacket that I knit at the beginning of lockdown, modified to have a zip instead of snaps, and my grey woollen… Read more »
Me-Made-May, Pledge and week 1

So somehow May has arrived already, personally I am finding that this lockdown is going so quickly which is totally not what I was expecting from being forced to stay at home. I think it is probably becuase there is less to delinate the days and separate them from one another. Now May has arrived so has Me-Made-May and I… Read more »
Vegan Bolognese

Over the last few years I have sarted to cut down the amount of meat that I have been eating but this winter I really turned towards a plant focused diet. Adding a lot more beans and grains to my diet helped in a large way by the addition of the Instant Pot to my kitchen at Christmas as this… Read more »
Quarantine catch up – Yoghurt making edition.

Obviously this was written a few weeks ago but for some reason I didn’t get as far as clicking publish… So everything has changed a little since the last time I actually published a blog post and tbh I haven’t felt like sitting down and typing anything out recently but here I am talking to the ether again…Everything and nothing… Read more »
Mango Tomato “chicken”
This blog was never supposed to be a cooking blog but here I am writing out a recipe. Almost purely so that I can have a way of keeping track of my recipes and don’t have to keep riffling through lots of random pieces of paper every time I want to find a meal I cooked. This is a lockdown… Read more »
2020 Make Nine Plans

As is traditional with the start of a new year I have been looking back on what I planned to make last year and what I actually managed to make from those plans (click the links in the captions to find out) and then planning ahead for the next year. So for 2020, I have done a Make Nine and… Read more »