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
Adelaide takes an age to warp up. Well, she would, I suppose; little Gisele won't take more than 15 warp ends, but Adelaide will take a great deal more warp than that, and you can't really call it ends, either. Adelaide's warp is continuous.
Before I start, I have a little announcement to make. I'm starting to find it difficult to keep this blog going on a daily basis, and I'm also aware that something is going to have to give when I re-start my degree course in the autumn.
I've mentioned that beading dish a number of times now. Well, I do quite a lot of beading; and while I do have a little lap tray (and a very nice one at that), it has a fairly detailed design on it, so it's not really
I could actually have said I was waxing wood wroth, which would have been a really splendid pun; but, alas, the reference is a tad obscure, and I would rather not confuse anyone. It's Malory's Morte d'Arthur, in which "wood" is frequently