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How to make felted wool pins
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011. How to make felted wool pins. I've been making so many of these pins this week, I thought I'd better take some photographs and do a tutorial. even though they are so easy, really, as to not need much instruction. Two felted shapes (in this case hearts) that are cut exactly the same. A darning needle and length of yarn that's even longer than you think you're going to need. Compliments of the awesome Stitch School. And that's about it. You may find they're rather addictive.
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How to make a hugging pillow
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Monday, February 14, 2011. How to make a hugging pillow. This Valentine's Day, I thought it would be fun to use up some of my softest felted sweaters on a pair of hugging pillows. It would have taken maybe 4 hours tops including photography time if I hadn't gotten distracted by a pair of cats, but more on that later. In addition to thread and a sewing machine you will need:. A set of nesting mixing bowls you are comfortable running a rotary cutter around. A rotary cutting mat and cutters. I did that beca...
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Curator - of a cottage
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Friday, March 30, 2012. Curator - of a cottage. Do you remember the cottage I visited last summer? I wrote about that visit here. And also about a special chair. Well, guess what? It is now mine. Until some papers passed under all our hands over the winter, the cottage belonged to my aunt and uncle, who bought it about 40 years ago. When I was a little girl I visited every summer for a week, the most blissful weeks of my childhood. They have always been the best. I am so excited. Owning a memory in antic...
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April 2012
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012. A mouse in the house (and how to get rid of it). Very early this morning I woke to sounds that - for a few wonderful moments - I thought might mean nothing more than an expensive repair to my dishwasher. There were poppings and scrapings and clinkings, as when metal collides, or glass (which is what made me think: dishwasher, yay! Sadly no. There was a mouse under the stove, and then in the drawer of the stove, and then back under the stove. How to Get Rid of Mice. Total turnof...
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March 2012
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Friday, March 30, 2012. Curator - of a cottage. Do you remember the cottage I visited last summer? I wrote about that visit here. And also about a special chair. Well, guess what? It is now mine. Until some papers passed under all our hands over the winter, the cottage belonged to my aunt and uncle, who bought it about 40 years ago. When I was a little girl I visited every summer for a week, the most blissful weeks of my childhood. They have always been the best. I am so excited. Wednesday, March 21, 2012.
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KnitGeekery: Marathon woman
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I've got a fever, and the only prescription is.more YARN! Monday, March 7, 2011. In our "Biting Off More than We Can Chew" department, I give you my two latest spinning projects: an 8 oz. coil of blue Corriedale/silk, and two 4 oz. wine-coloured braids of local alpaca/bamboo. The Corriedale/silk thing had me stumped for the longest time. I've already posted the story. And then there was the alpaca/bamboo mix, purchased from Turtlepurl Yarns and Notions. March 7, 2011 at 4:14 PM. They both look fabulous, ...
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KnitGeekery: This might be the one
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I've got a fever, and the only prescription is.more YARN! Thursday, March 10, 2011. This might be the one. After my last post, I spun up some of the Fat Cat Knits. Fibre, just to see whether there was a hope in hell of it coordinating with what I spun last week. Middle skein is the Fat Cat one—. It landed somewhere between the brown and the green/mix that I've already spun, and I think that if I use a plain yarn for contrast, we could be cooking with gas in very short order.). Labels: Fat Cat Knits.
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KnitGeekery: True love
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I've got a fever, and the only prescription is.more YARN! Friday, March 4, 2011. I know I've been talking a lot about spinning lately, and it really seems like that's all I've been doing, fibre-wise, but in fact I've had a few projects on the go (including that bally hat, but perhaps the less said about that, the better). Oh look, I've even got the right yarn in my stash, and the right needles and everything; it must be fated, this project and I belong together forever." And so on. Then last week, I was ...
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