Dream in colour, create in fabric, thread, yarn, words, whatever you have to hand
…another Dottie Angel Frock! This is my third, now, and the material is a heavier cotton than the last two so it’s a bit stiff but I hope it will soften up with washing and wearing. I really do love the pockets :) The pattern I used (with a couple of adjustments) was – Simplicity 1080. […]
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Welcome (at last!) to the April edition of Wool on Sundays :) We have had two major faults on our phone line fixed. The engineers have, however, recommended some ‘tree work’ and replacing a cable, which they say should be dealt with at some unspecified time when ‘the teams’ who do such things get to us…so perhaps […]
Read More…Hello, and thank you for visiting – especially if I owe you an email or haven’t visited your blog lately. Unfortunately, the new router did not solve our internet issues so this is a quick post from somewhere else to say that we have been assured it really will be sorted at the beginning of […]
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In general exciting news, we have been sent a new router by our ISP after having no internet and endless, monotonous endeavours to sort it out of late. Now it seems that I am again in the virtual world – though we are expecting a storm so, new router or not, my new connectedness may […]
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Welcome to Wool on Sundays :) Back in November (Fits like a Glove) I extolled the virtues of West Yorkshire Spinners. For many reasons using wool grown and spun in the UK fits with my personal vision of ethical consumption and, at the time, I said: “I was very happy with how the wool knitted […]
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How was your February? When I changed Wool on Sundays to a monthly link up (the next one will be on Sunday 5th March), I had great plans about getting organised and doing all sorts of non-yarn projects. And I even got so far as assembling a collection of items to make a newly-organised-me notice […]
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It’s been a long time since I did a sewing post (mostly because the light has been so grim I’ve been putting off taking photos) but last week I made a dress and now I am finally posting I can’t think of anything much to say about it except once it was one of a […]
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Welcome to the first of the new monthly, Wool on Sundays :) Now that I’m only going to be doing Wool On Sundays once a month, I feel it ought to be easier to find yarn content to share but January was not only mostly blue, it was mostly yarnless… I did finish a baby […]
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Today is the first reveal day in 2017 for Four in Art. Our theme for this year is ‘Light’ and the sub-theme for this quarter is ‘Shimmer’. Our aim is: “…to break out of the usual gridded experience and try a new concept, free of structure or preconception, moving the boundaries of our own skills forward in […]
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