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Welcome to Wool on Sundays and thank you to everyone who visited last week :) I have been joining the rustic lace blocks, this week. I still have three more blocks to make and join in and I haven’t decided about what to do for a border yet but it’s slowly coming together. And I […]
Read More…***** dog days plural noun 1. the hot period of the summer reckoned in ancient times from the heliacal rising of Sirius (the Dog Star) 2. a period marked by inactivity[source] Word Origin C16: translation of Late Latin diēs caniculārēs, translation of Greekhēmerai kunade …1530s, from Latin dies caniculares, from Greek; so called because they occur around the time of the heliacal rising of Sirius, the Dog Star ( kyonseirios). Noted as the hottest and most unwholesome time of the year; usually July 3 to Aug. 11, but variously calculated, […]
Read More…Welcome to Wool on Sundays :) This week we went to help my youngest daughter, who is a medical student, move from Scarborough to Hull, which involved driving all day on Thursday (about 400 miles including a detour to leave our dog at my Mum’s house). And on the way back we stayed over night […]
Read More…Welcome to Wool on Sundays and thank you for all the links and kind comments on last week’s post :) This week, I’ve been very busy with non-yarn things and I was considering just putting up the linky when it occurred to me that I’m always saying you can’t go wrong with yarn projects […]
Read More…Welcome to Wool on Sundays – 91 :) I realise, now, that I shouldn’t have let Miss Hare star in my WIP post because it leaves me with nothing for today’s Wool on Sunday! I’m currently working away on the quilt I mentioned earlier in the week and I really can’t let myself near a […]
Read More…Ho, Ho, No! A month to go And nothing to show… Three of my children have November birthdays – one of them is today – and I used to have a strict rule of not even thinking about Christmas until December. This was partly to protect the specialness of the birthdays (my eldest son has […]
Read More…A very Happy Easter and Welcome to an almost wordless Wool on Sundays! This week I made a chick, using an easy, fun pattern from Myrtle and Eunice and three cupcakes using a tutorial from mojimojidesigns I think the little chick’s eyes are bigger than his tummy… I remembered I had a cupcake stand somewhere under the […]
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67 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS! Welcome to Rainbow Hare for My stop on the Ho, Ho, Ho And on We Sew Blog Hop! I was delighted, back in January when Fiona invited me to host a spot on this great monthly linky party run by Fiona and Paula and I felt certain I would have Christmas all wrapped up by now […]
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Welcome to another Wool on Sundays! Thank you very much to everyone who stopped by last week. This week, I have been working on a couple of (still unfinished) secret projects and today I was going to share some tiny peeks of knitting and crochet but, as the weather and my internet connection don’t get […]
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