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Norwegian Heart and Flower Pot-holders
This heart-shaped pot-holder, I am ashamed to say, I began and basically finished in June, but it needed a loop to hang it up by and although I kept meaning to get round to it, somehow I never did, so...
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"Smarties" Cushion
This is another of my leftover summer projects that's been sitting around waiting to be finished. It didn't start off as a a cushion at all. In fact, it was intended to become a Granny Square cardigan...
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Old-Fashioned Handkerchiefs
If you are someone who regards using fabric handkerchiefs, which get laundered and reused, rather than paper tissues which are binned, or burned, after use, as faintly disgusting and unhygienic, you...
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Crochet By Numbers
Did you ever have one of those "painting by numbers" kits as a child? I did and found them fascinating. Especially when you couldn't really see the end picture clearly, to begin with, and had to follow...
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Hibernation Strategies
It is dank in the UK at the moment. A few bright spells of sunshine lift the pall of gloom for a while and then it returns to form - damp, dark, gloomy and rather depressing. I find as I get older that...
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Crocheted Christmas Wall-hanging
"On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me a partridge in a pear tree"So the first line of the traditional Christmas carol goes.I don't know quite what anyone would do with the gift of a...
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Lichen Shades Of Pale
One of the things I like about winter is that with the brightness and intense colour of summer and early autumn gone, it invites exploration of more subtle, neutral shades and encourages me to focus on...
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St Nicholas Cookies And Hooky Cookie Jars
Yesterday was the Feast of St Nicholas. Celebrated more in continental Europe than in the UK, with present-giving and the distribution of sweets and cookies, he's obviously a saint worth cultivating!...
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11/12/13
The eleventh day of the twelfth month of the thirteenth year of the century - oddly pleasing when dates fall out like that. Eleven "little coat squares" I've hooked up from Lucy of Attic 24's version...
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Christmas Glow
A Christmas moon glowing in the blue of today's early morning sky. It was even better yesterday - a perfect, creamy golden sphere with three skeins of cloud lying across it in quite even stripes - only...
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New Year's Green
Not far from where I grew up, in a leafy suburb on the edge of north-west London, is a village that is definitely not suburbia, despite being only a few miles away from it. I'm not quite sure why it...
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January Blues
This is often the time of year when January blues hit me. I feel "stuck in a rut". Normal routines seem heavy-going and irksome rather than familiar and soothing. The daily round drags rather than...
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Roll-Neck Winter Poncho
I've had a bee in my bonnet about making a crochet poncho for over a year now. Ever since I first saw Angie's colourful ponchos on Le Monde de Sucrette. You can see her beautiful versions and find her...
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A Poncho For All Seasons?
Thank you so much for all your kind comments on my roll-neck winter poncho.This post is really a PS to my last one with some pics of the second poncho that I made for a friend and finished in time to...
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A Snowless Winter's Tale
This year the snowbird who, (as we all know!), brings the first flakes of spiralling snow that change the landscape from dull, wet winter grey to a magical white winter wonderland seems to have passed...
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Hearts, Flowers and Knickers (and Cake of course!)
Happy St Valentine's Day everyone! I regard St Valentine's Day as annual permission for me to indulge in pink and fluffy frivolity without having to justify it. I feel I can rustle up a raft of hooky...
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February Half Term Stills
This week in pics. And a few words. There has been:Blue granny-square-swatching for a new projectBlue granny-square-hooking. In some quantity, once I'd pinned down my chosen four colours.Dutch...
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Soft
Life has not flowed quietly in the last few weeks here. It has disturbed and jolted - as it sometimes does. I've found myself seeking out softness in colours, tones and textures to store up in the soul...
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Spring Flower Bag
Thank you so much for all your kind comments on my last post, especially for your sympathy vis à vis the depleted-in-number bantams. The few remaining chickabiddy girls seem a bit lost and lonely but...
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A Little Bit of Spring Sewing
I don't know what it is, but there's been a very infectious Spring sewing bug in the air, this last little while and some lovely sewing makes going on in blogland - here, here, and here, for starters....
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