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  • Another oops

    Ok so I’ve been doing crochet and watching telly instead of my house pottering.  I’ve managed to finish one side of the thingy I’m doing.  Well when I say finished – it is finished but the shape was looking a little bit -well um- wrong.  It seems I should have 16 shells on the edging… Read more

  • Looking Forward To The Weekend

    Well himself has to work this weekend and while it is a shame there is a silver lining and that means I get me time.  The instructions for this morning was – “Don’t wake me when going to work”  so I was woken to the cries of ” Deirdre my alarm didn’t go off!”  so… Read more

  • Crochet Greed / Specs.

    I tend to dabble and generally don’t do too much – but the bit that I do I enjoy immensely.  There is one website that has a wealth of patterns – www.crochetpatterncentral.com.  However every once in a while it would send me to pattern on Lionbrand.com.  For this site you had to log on and because… Read more

  • Crochet Grumble

    Sorry about this but I’m about to have a grumble.  I love to crochet and haven’t managed the knitting thing really – I’m not as hooked on it so to speak (sorry!)  Anyway I’m wandering around on the internet and I tend to click in on things that mention Knitting & Crochet in the hopes… Read more

  • Knitting

    I think I may have mentioned before that I don’t knit. I just find it too awkward. I feel as if I’m missing a spare hand. So with this in mind – I’m knitting (eek) I was out and about during my morning coffee break and I went into one of the wool shops near… Read more

  • Digging out the sticks

    Last year my MIL was in hospital and I thought it would be nice if I made her a blanket and it would have been if I’d actually done it.  OK to be precise I did start the blanket and then got a bit cheesed off doing it and besides she was out of hospital… Read more

  • Ooops!

    This is the post were The Vintage Kitten will kill me hence the Ooops!  When I last posted we were off to my sisters for dinner as it was my mothers 60th.  For starters we had scallops on a bed of parsnip (i think) with a mixed leaf salad and here it is: It was… Read more

  • Crochet

    Last night I picked up my hook and started to crochet. I hadn’t done any since October/November and when I read a post on the blog Posy I just got the urge. I had seen on various sites that people had done ripple blankets so I’ve decided to give it a go – I have… Read more

  • Thoughts for the New Year

    I don’t like to make resolutions but I do make lists of good intentions.  Unfortunately for me we all know about good intentions 😦 Anyway Christmas is always December 25th so why this year did it take me as such a surprise?  My preparedness was lacking to say the least and that is such a… Read more

  • National Craft Fair

    This evening we are off to the National Craft Fair – this is not to be confused with the Knitting and Stitching. At the K&S you buy the stuff to make yourself and at the NCF the stuff is done and being sold at fairly hefty prices. The price part is why I wouldn’t sell… Read more