So, now, thanks to the excellent (and probably late) Mr Holdgate, I'm not only a competent netter again, but also a far better netter than I originally was; and I'm delighted. There is just that little wrinkle of trying to find something suitable to use as
So I have finally got to the point in Mr Holdgate's book that I wanted it for in the first place, namely square-mesh netting. (I did, I admit, skip the bag with the cane handles, largely because I didn't have any; though it was labelled as
I have entirely too many craft projects on at the moment, so I'm having a bit of a drive to clear the decks; and yesterday I finished the net stole, the one I showed you on the headrope a little while ago. Something like a stole is an
So, you know how I really wanted to do theatrical costuming? I got my wish. A drama group has just started up here (it met for the first time last week), so I went along and offered my services as official costume wizard, which were enthusiastically accepted. And it turns
Yesterday lunchtime I got my friend to draw round my foot, and the adventure began in earnest. She has a degree in engineering, so I was expecting precision; I didn't entirely get it. She got a pretty decent outline (except I noticed on the inside of the foot
There are very many ways to knit socks, and everyone has their own preferred method. I'm going to talk about mine; it may not be yours. Sadly I do not still own the pair of socks in the feature photo, and the only one I have of them
Along with the new lucet, I also ordered what they called a "friendship bracelet wheel". They both came from a company called Wooden Gifts Boutique, who have a website address etched on the wheel, but in fact it redirects to their eBay shop, so I imagine the website
I have liked poetry since I was very small; and when I was a child, I came across a curious, rather macabre, but nonetheless amusing rhyme called The Yarn of the Nancy Bell. I also liked Gilbert & Sullivan from an early age, but somehow didn't register at
So I was talking to Ancient Mother on the phone at the weekend, as I do, and I got onto the subject of portable crafts... probably because the netting I've been doing of late is not especially portable (although the jury is still out on that one; if
So, the original yellow string bag clearly wasn't ideal. It's not a complete write-off; it'll take maybe a dozen tins or so. Even so, the mouth is too narrow, and the only reason it's even that wide is that I tweaked the
I think I've mentioned before that we tend to struggle for bags at the food bank. (Although, having said that, the bag situation is a little better than it was, because at the moment we're getting a lot of refugee families. Most of them don'
You recall Mr Wooster's code wheel from an earlier post? While I was very happy with the principle of the thing, it really wasn't as elegant as I'd have liked. It was, after all, only cardboard, fettled up with a bit of lightweight air-drying