A metre’s worth?

I have recently been in Melbourne and while there I went into the Marimekko shop in the EMPORIUM.  Marimekko was very popular in the 70s and I have always liked their fabrics but the prices are a bit expensive.  They had some lovely little items on display but again the prices were what I thought…

A shirt becomes a shirt. . .recycling

My younger daughter has given me this shirt to turn into a shirt for my granddaughter.  She did give me the shirt quite some time ago but I am only now contemplating making the new shirt.  I am a bit slow off the mark.  I will get it unpicked today and hopefully get it cut…

Tah dah!!

When I looked back to when I first posted about this chair and my plans for it, I discovered it was way, way back in November 2014, that is almost two years ago. If you look at that post you will see that I did say it was a long term project but I hadn’t…

Remember the wool I frogged?

That was back in February and I have now started to knit up the caramel coloured wool again.  The pattern is from this pattern booklet. I had knitted the wrap previously but it had stretched over time that was why it was frogged.  I am now reknitting it in a smaller size. The knitting looks…

Skulls and paisley

This item is a dressing gown for my granddaughter.  It is an unusual fabric but one that my daughter chose.  It is lovely and bright and I don’t think my granddaughter will have any idea of what the pattern is. The second item is a recycled shirt. The original shirt belonged to my granddaughter’s dad…

Frogging for another project

My younger daughter gave me a couple of woollen items I had knitted for her a few years ago.  The reason she gave them to me was that one had stretched and was too big for her and the other she had grown out of.  She thought I might be able to frog them and…