Of flowers and fairgrounds…

If this were a gardening blog, I should not be short of things to post but I fear it would get very repetitive – weeding, clearing brambles, weeding, clearing brambles, weeding, clearing brambles… Luckily it is not a gardening blog so, I will spare you pictures of all the nettles and brambles and just show selective successes! […]

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Wool on Sundays – 119 (dull)

Welcome to another Wool on Sundays :) Thank you to everyone who visited last week and thanks especially to those who linked up. In case you missed them, I’ve copied the links below… 1. Kim 2. Maria 3. Opat  I’ve made a small amount of progress on the Rustic Lace blanket but I’m questioning my colour […]

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Purple Passion / Once upon a time…

Do you love lavender? Are you mad about mauve? Today is the third reveal day for Four in Art  – an Art Quilt Group, which aims to: “…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 both concept and […]

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Wool on Sundays – 118 (a grand day out)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays and many thanks for the kind comments about my ripple blanket last week :) Lately, it seems that I am constantly kept from sewing, blogging or wool work by one thing after another. The most fun of these things was going to a Steam Fair. It was a big family outing […]

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Wool on Sundays – 117 (Ripple Blanket Tadah!)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays and thank you to everyone who has been kind enough to leave such encouraging words whilst my Ripple Blanket has been in progress :) It’s finally finished and photographed! Whilst I was making it, I intended to have the stripes running widthways across the bed. The foot of the bed (below) […]

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Summer in colour

I am not very good at ‘wandering camera’. In June my Son came to stay with his fiancee, her sister and her sister’s husband. They set off on a walk with Poppy to our nearest village, which is a couple of miles away, and ten minutes later the skies opened in a torrential downpour so […]

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Wool on Sundays – 115 (Sorry)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays and, if anyone is still here, sorry for yet another ripple blanket post. I promise this will be the last before the Tada. I’m not sure if that will be next week but, if not, then next week I will talk about something else! Here are some stripes from this week. […]

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