Last week I sent my International Scarf Exchange 5 pal’s scarf.

I forgot to photograph the other things, there were some Tim Tams, handmade stitch markers and some variegated wool yarn in blues and greens. ETA: you can now see pics on my pal’s blog.

As I’ve previously mentioned this pattern is Shifting Sands by Grumperina [...]

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November has ended and so has SP11 (if a little late on my part). I received this package from my pal:

Includes cocoa butter soap, lollies, DIY earring kit, paper cranes and bath salts (which we almost mistook for some sort of drink due to foreign labelling … close call!).

Beautiful sparkly fibre. I’ve had to get [...]

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It’s been a slow couple of weeks, I’m recovering from my second respiratory tract infection in a month and feel absolutely dreadful so I haven’t been very productive. But here are some FOs from last week.
The first is a cosmetic case that I made following queenofdiy’s tutorial at Craftster forum. Totally genuis way of [...]

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I haven’t been making much progress with projects lately, work has been crazy busy and I’ve had a nasty flu for about a month now. Still on the needles are the Jo Sharp Singlet, Stargazer, Chevron Scarf and now I’ve cast on some Slip Stitch Rib Socks from Sensational Knitted Socks. I just couldn’t leave [...]

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