Category Archives: crochet
An unintentional invention
I love my Mum’s homemade marmalade, so I thought this year I’d try to make my own. My ‘new neighbour’ friend kindly dropped off her giant slow cooker and on Saturday morning I got started. The first flaw was comparing … Continue reading
Bits of Christmas
It’s way too late for a Christmas post, but I thought as I only went back to work yesterday (and my brain is pretty convinced it is still on holiday) it would be ok to write a couple of highlights. … Continue reading
Lovely Little People
I’ve been meaning to write this post for ages, but it seems appropriate now. It’s little people based, and little people kind of make Christmas, don’t they? This is my colleagues daughter: She had one of the owl hats I … Continue reading
Crochet, cooking, Crisis and a little request
A while ago I posted about an idea to sell my crochet hats for charity. As a result of that post I had some orders. The hats take around 4 hours to make each (longer when I get distracted by … Continue reading
Norman Cats and Crochet
I like to crochet a bit a lot, ok, almost obsessively. Norman doesn’t seem so keen. As soon as I get out the bits I need he tries distraction techniques. If that doesn’t work, he lies on my pattern…. ….or … Continue reading
Crochet hats and a potential black market
One of my friends at work asked for my advice recently. She was going from hair to wig (for very different reasons to me) and was worried about getting a cold head in bed. I don’t know if bald men … Continue reading
(An attempt at) Crochet Class
My mum is a terrible teacher. We both agree on that and we both dread it when I have to ask her help with sewing type things. I decided (in a rather high and mighty way) that I couldn’t possibly … Continue reading
My name’s not Joseph….
…but I do have an amazing technicolour dream coat. Well I sort of do. You know I mentioned that on Monday I may have been a bit enthusiastic with my wine intake and sung and danced down the path to … Continue reading
Makingness and a bit of drivel
Well it’s midsummer’s day and lovely and we’re basking in fantastic temperatures….only we’re not, because this is the UK and I think Mother Nature must be going through the menopause or something as it’s mostly average with the occasional hot … Continue reading
The Weird and the Wonderful
There’s been lots of weirdness and wonderfulness recently so I thought I’d share a few bits with you. My last post was about a bikini I made for Sister 2 after her hearing about Mum’s from the 70’s. Well, the … Continue reading
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