Mother’s Day is generally about a bit of pampering in my house. New PJs, slippers, little trinkets that our mum wouldn’t normally buy for herself and a day of no cooking or cleaning. This year mum chose a simple dinner so I thought I’d make something tasty for dessert. Inspired by Bakerella I set about [...]

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Wow, I was just deleting some spammy comments and realised how long it’s been since I blogged. I blame real life, it gets in the way so often. So what I have been up to? Well the Aussie Knitters group at Ravelry is doing a Bag Lady Swap, so I’ve been making my pals bag. [...]

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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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You wouldn’t think so from the lack of progress, but I really do knit quite a lot. I’ve made loads of progress on Ms Marigold, just have the neck and sleeve edges to finish but the circular I need is currently stuck in another project.

I knit using Jo Sharp Soho Summer Cotton, which I absolutely [...]

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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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I received the most beautiful package in the mail today, full of fantastic goodies from my SP11 pal.

Individually wrapped in purple tissue paper and ribbon, sprinkled with dried flowers and covered with clear wrap it seemed almost a shame to open them. But I’m glad I did because look at all the goodies Emily [...]

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I recently ordered some undyed Elizabeth yarn from the lovely Katie at Live2Knit to give Kool-Aid dyeing a try. Having tasted it, I think I’ll skip the drinking and go straight to the dyeing next time.
This is my first attempt, using Lemon-Lime at one end of the skein and Arctic Green Apple at the [...]

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I finally got my invite to Ravelry! I admit I was getting a bit impatient waiting, waiting, waiting, but now that I’ve seen what it is and what you can do I have to say I’m quite impressed and it was worth the wait. If you haven’t signed up already go and do it now! [...]

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I’ve had this domain for a while now and decided it was time to use it so here is my new home (moved from niatryde.net). I will mostly be posting uni work, art and craft projects and such like.
I’m currently studying through Open Universities Australia with the view to complete one or two B.A.s, my [...]

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Ali from Skeins her way is running a contest with a chance to win a pattern for her Fitted Tank (as well as the Blue Sky Cotton yarn to complete it for 1st prize). How great is that? OK, so it’s actually winter here, but I like to knit summer things in the winter so [...]

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