Liz | May 12, 2013
If you’re a crafter like me you love making stuff, but, perhaps also like me, you love the thrill of designing or picking a pattern and the wool.. less so sewing in ends and then wash and block?? pfft.. why do you think I make blankets?? So. I thought its about time this changed. Thanks [...]
Liz | May 9, 2013
Now, I’ve always been honest amount my views, a large number of the crochet books I bought were tat and probably best used as fire kindling to be honest, and recently having gotten into knitting (I so need to wash my mouth with soap) I bought some knitting needle, the addi click short lace ones [...]
Liz | May 7, 2013
I have an old hand powered sewing machine. Now I have an electric fancy thing. These 2 pictures are of some material that came pre sewen. I added the white bits.
Liz | April 16, 2013
Now. You’ve seen my wool room. So you might think that I don’t need any more. Well yes on simplistic terms yes you could be right however right tool right job! Well I want to knit me a cardigan. Yes knit. May my soul burn in hell. I also don’t intend for my life to [...]
Liz | March 7, 2013
Have you got this book? Well, I bought it – as you know Im truly interested in making some crochet socks, and this sounded great – I can do the double ended crochet in some levels so I was excited to try this. Only Im feeling like I have an IQ smaller than my hooksize. Near [...]
Liz | February 5, 2013
The second red sock!
Liz | February 2, 2013
Its no good, I hate it. Im going to have to frog it. I am going to change it to an entrelac scarf, which will complicate matters, as I can only do clockwise ones in the basket weave thing, so, Im going to have to do long strips, which wont be so bad, but, [...]
Liz | February 1, 2013
I’m getting less happy with how this looks the further I go on. Like the star I feel it needs another colour to pull the shape off. Sigh
Liz | January 12, 2013
Ok. My one wish about entrelac was that I wanted it to end up looking woven. That basket weave effect. But as you may have seen in previous pictures normal tunisian entrelac works that there are 4 triangles pointing to the middle and any square you are working on in the given triangle all go [...]
Liz | January 6, 2013
I posted this before but it was hard to see, this time you can see how it worked up and how the square on the 4 sides of a previous one, all go at 90 degrees to the one in the middle.. However.. OK, so below is a story board for a slightly different tunisian [...]
