I’m back at work this week, after an extended Christmas break (three weeks, including a trip to London and a week in Hamburg), so I thought it was about time I recorded what I made, and got up to, in 2024. My sewing output over the last year was fairly […]
My final knitting project of 2024 was the Pressed Flowers Kerchief, designed by Savory Knitting for the Pom Pom and Hobbii garland yarn and pattern collection. As a big fan of PomPom magazine, I was really keen to try their new yarn, following the closure of the magazine last year.
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Back in September, I had a short article about my knitted swimsuit included in Slipknot, the Knitting and Crochet Guild’s members magazine. The magazine (like all roles in the Guild) is created by volunteers, so I was glad to be able to make a small contribution, and being the cover
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I’m a member of the national Knitting and Crochet Guild, and very occasionally I make it along to meetings of the Birmingham branch. At one meeting I did attend, I took home Sue Bradley’s Cotton Collection, published in 1988, which a fellow member was giving away after a clear-out of
As a teenager, I was an avid reader of 90s teen magazines (Bliss and Sugar) and was fascinated when one issue (bizarrely, as it certainly wasn’t a regular feature) included a pattern for a, presumably crochet, string bikini. I didn’t knit or crochet at the time, but the idea of
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I always take two weeks holiday at Christmas, and one of the nice tasks I set myself is to have a reminisce about what I made, enjoyed and generally got up over the past year, aided by a scroll back through Instagram. When I started looking back at 2023, I
I didn’t finish many knitting projects in 2023. My main knitting project this year, which has been in my stash / slowly in progress for a few years, was a Moomin jumper, using a Novita pattern and yarn. I’m on, approximately, my fourth attempt at knitting it, a combination of
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Every other year, Birmingham Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers holds a dyeing day and it’s always one of my favourite meetings. It’s held in a fellow guild member’s garden, there’s a constant pot of tea on the go, and all attendees bring along a contribution for the buffet lunch.
My absolute favourite blog post to write has always been an end-of-year overview of the last twelve months. You can’t beat a good reminisce and I thoroughly enjoy writing them – and having them available to read back later. Most of the sewing I’ve done this year has been of
Earlier this year, I decided to get my yarn stash organised and attempt to use it all up. My yarn stash isn’t especially large (unlike my fabric stash) so it’s a realistic aim and would challenge me to find projects for yarn that I’ve had sat in the house for
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