Life on this side of the world has been plagued with load shedding. Sadly it is NOT the losing of weight kind!. On a daily basis we have no electricity for between 2 to 4 hours and this has been causing havoc on my sewing machine time. So if you have been following me for […]
A few weeks ago a friend of mine asked me to show her how to knit a blanket with pictures on, for those who don’t know this is called intarsia knitting. Intarsia or “picture knitting” is a color-work technique used to create basic geometric shapes or complicated pictures in a knitted piece. Intarsia knitting patterns […]
Finish quilting and sewing the binding onto my “Round Robin” quilt, blocked a finished stripped knitted shawl, when it’s dry I can knit the border on, did a little granny strip crocheting at night and now I’m off to a baby shower to deliver a quilt I made… Happy crafting Love NikkiM
Everyone is having babies again! Remember this post 18 months ago. Well, all these mommies are having their second babies as this will give them their 2 year gap. So my trusted favourite is to crochet borders onto flannel blankets. As my flannel stash is now finished, I went off to the shop and bought […]
I found one of my late mothers Patons knitting pattern books, needless to say it’s in pieces. It was good to knit something from one of her patterns and see her little notes in the margin. Good memories. The pattern I chose was a sleeveless slipover with a cable panel in the front that runs […]
In between the crocheting, I have been practicing my fair isle knitting. It’s quite a thing to knit with 2 threads of yarn at a time, but I think I’m getting the hang of it. On my recent trip to Europe, we stopped in a little town in Austria called Melk, here I found a […]
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