When we were in Scotland on our last holiday there before COVID I bought a piece of Harris tweed. I had no idea what I was going to make from it but my elder daughter made a beautiful bag from the piece of tweed I had given her so I thought I would do the…
Category: Craft
Denim done.
I have finished crocheting this rug from demin jeans which I recycled into strips for the rug. I could make it bigger but I have had enough. It has been sitting on my bench for a long time. Time for it to move to the floor. I think it will go in the laundry. I…
Different socks
I have done some sock knitting in the past few months and the socks I have knitted have been a bit different to those I usually knit. These are the usual socks I knit which are 4ply and from a multicoloured ball of wool. This time I knitted some 8ply socks for my grandson. He…
One skein of wool
I recently visited, with my sister-in-law, our local wool shop in Lakes Entrance, Stitches ‘n’ Things. My sister-in-law likes to visit this shop when she comes to visit us. She invariably buys a fair amount of wool as she doesn’t have such a great selection where she lives. I said I would go along with…
Tumbling Blocks have landed.
I have finally finished a quilt that I started a few years ago. I have posted previously about this particular quilt and you can check it out here and here. I spent a wet weather day recently hand sewing the binding to finish off the quilt. I decided to make the binding out of scraps…
Tumbling blocks
I have been doing some sewing recently trying to finish off some works that have sat idly by for a few years. I started this quilt quite some time ago, 2013 to be exact, with the intention of using up some of the mountain of scrap fabric that I have in my sewing room. There…