I’m sure you’re quite ready to be done with the recent holiday season and that every other blogger has long since posted the things they made for Giftmas 2011. Well sorry, I prefer not to post until the gifts have been received so there is no chance of spoilers. (Which is why this is part [...]

Tags: card making, cards, Christmas, Harrisville Designs, paper embossing, potholder looms, potholder loops, potholders, Sizzix, weaving
Filed under: Finished Items, Show and Tell

OK, so it’s been nearly six months since I last posted. I could explain, but you’d probably be bored to tears.  Basically it involves poor health on my part and continuing poor health of relatives on my side and t’s side so international trips, etc.  I’ve been very ill and still am, but at least [...]

Filed under: General Housekeeping, Show and Tell

I made this around the end of February but never got around to posting.   I call this the Scooter hat because it reminds me of the hair of Scooter from the Muppet Show.  Inspired by the Rasta Hat of Annie Modesitt, I’ve never seen the pattern just the pictures.  Made with Colinette Prism yarn [...]

Tags: Annie Modesitt, circle loom, Colinette, colinette prism, Colinette Zebra, loom knitting, Rasta Hat, Scooter hat
Filed under: Original Designs, Show and Tell

iHanna does some of the most amazing things at her blog, you should seriously check it out!  One of the things she has turned me on to are the myriad of challenges around various crafty sites.  I decided to start the Green Pepper Press Crusades which are monthly challenges in various paper-crafting techniques. April’s challenge [...]

Tags: ATCs, cutting masks, cutting stencils, GPP Crusades, GPP Street Team, Green Pepper Press, Michelle Ward, papercrafting, using masks, using stencils
Filed under: Show and Tell

Alas, in this case I don’t have many pictures. I took video last night but I have yet to edit it and that’s pretty far down the priority list at the moment, so you’ll have to wait. Sorry! Last night, the Museum of London had its monthly late night opening (link may rot) but for [...]

Tags: Black Welsh Mountain, Claire, crafty in London, Create@Late, crochet, I Knit London, loom knitting, Museum of London, Prick Your Finger, Purlpirate, spindling, spinning, Stich and Bitch London
Filed under: Inspirations, Older Reviews, Show and Tell

Some more photos just so I can catch up on the past week.  (I still have several months backlog of photos and events to blog about, but I am at least trying to stay on top of things as they are happen now!) This week I attempted to crochet: I didn’t get very far, I’m [...]

Tags: celtic ring, crochet, debbie bliss, Debbie Bliss Soho, gauge swatch, loom knitting, newbie crochet, spin ring, swatching, wedding ring
Filed under: Projects and Plans, Show and Tell

I mentioned these last week so here are the pix: The upper bracelets are plastic beads on elastic cord, the lower (for their mom, Valerie) is glass beads mixing the girls’ favourite colours with a silver awareness ribbon charm, strung on 49-strand silver-plated Beadalon.  The colours here aren’t great since I photographed them on my [...]

Tags: beading, Beadlon, bracelets, project superstar
Filed under: Show and Tell

I actually finished this last weekend but with photographing, tagging and all that am only just posting today. Hope that still counts for FO Friday ;0 I had contemplated sending this in to LKC magazine as a submission but A) it’s pretty basic and more importantly B) it fits me perfectly, which means it will [...]

Tags: alpaca, basketweave stitch, debbie bliss, debbie bliss alpaca silk, flat knit stitch, hat, lkc, Loom Knitter's Circle, loomknitting, neckwarmer, Reader's Digest loom, round loom
Filed under: Show and Tell

Oh yeah, I simply must mention this!  I was one of the guests on the latest episode (4) of Knitting 911, the loom and needle knitting podcast by Denise Layman of KnitChat.com and Loom Knitter’s Circle Magazine fame.  You can listen on the webpage. This has gotten me fired up to resume my own long-neglected [...]

Tags: Denise Layman, KnitChat.com, Knitting 911, Knitting 911 podcast, Loom Knitter's Circle, podcast, podcasting
Filed under: Show and Tell

I had started this thinking it would be a thing-a-day but the blasted thing took me twelve hours over two days.   Knowing that has put me off doing its mate until thing-a-day is over. Anyway, the gory details: One legwarmer, extra-long (I like em to come up over my knees), made in K2P2 (2×2) [...]

Tags: 2x2 ribbing, Colinette, colinette lagoon, colinette prism, k2p2 ribbing, learning to live with mistakes, legwarmer, loom knitting, PITA, thingaday2008
Filed under: Show and Tell