Tag Archives: knitting
2020 Makes
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, 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 »
WIP Assesment – K01
Autumn Knitting
Autumn Plans – Pippa

So now that I am starting to get back into the hibernating/craftathon stage of the year (Ie Autumn/winter) I am starting to plan out the things that I want to make. Some for me and some for presents for Christmas, yes I said that word, because if I want to make everything again this year I need to start soon!Here… Read more »
Use Nine 2019 – Pippa

Well, it looks like February might be the month I return to blogging and hopefully I manage to keep it up throughout the year. Part of my problem in the main part of the year is that I don’t like WordPress’s mobile app at all and I have issues uploading images to it as well! And I just don’t have… Read more »
Make Nine 2019 – Pippa

Despite publishing my #MakeNine list on Instagram I never got round to putting anything up here and have generally been very lax about writing blog posts lately. It seems that I have been struggling for motivation for both creating content for the blog and for creating in general. Since finishing sewing Christmas presents I have sewn the sum total of… Read more »
Nerly Hat – Finished Object

So this month I did my first test knitting for a knitwear designer and tested a cable knit hat, in fingering weight wool. Looking back on it I probably should have just stuck to pre-planned Christmas Knitting but this is probably going into the Emergency Christmas Presents box. Which just seems to contain knitted things at the moment! This hat… Read more »