Lockdown in South Africa started on Friday 27 March 2020. DH and I had already been in a week of self-quarantine due to us having arrived back from the USA on 20 March 2020, so our lockdown started a week earlier! I am not going […]
Last year I finished a bedside rug for DH. You can read about it here. I had put enough of the cotton warp onto my loom to make a second rug for myself (also in Boundweave, the same structure and pattern as DH’s). DH’s is […]
I found a really nice top-down knitted sweater pattern on the Drops Design website. It is a 2-colour Brioche pattern. I am really loving Brioche knitting at the moment so thought it would be a great project to tackle! This would be my biggest Brioche […]
Organic home-grown, hand-spun cotton produced on a small townhouse property in the city! In 2017 DH and I went to Limpopo province to visit Mapungubwe, a historical site dating back to the 11th century. Instead of our usual camping, we stayed in SanParks accommodation which […]
A hand knitted cowl made with hand-dyed, hand-spun wool, and store-bought wool
This backpack is for DS as a belated birthday gift. DS liked the first backpack I made, so I offered to make one if she bought the cotton yarn to make it. Her choice of colours were black, white and grey. I gave her a […]
I drove to the FBA 2019 venue in Benoni on Sunday afternoon. Most of us who were staying over arrived by Sunday evening, and during the week we had mainly day visitors and some lodgers. Day 1: I started on Monday morning with Brioche knitting. […]
I finally finished DH’s bedside rug. It is woven on 4-shafts, and the structure is Boundweave. The pattern can be found in Handwoven Magazine Mar/Apr 2019. This is a very nice weave structure for a mat as it makes it quite thick and cushiony, ideal […]
On Wednesday I had to put Gizmo into a crate for the start of his long journey to America where his mommy and daddy are now living. I had been dog-sitting Gizmo for 7 weeks, and the little guy crept into my heart (not into […]
Just in case you think I’m being idle…I have finished some of my WIPs (those in bold) (1) Woolen Rug (weaving)(2) Cotton tea towels (weaving) (3) Tapestry crochet backpack (4) Mosaic crochet cardigan (5) Knitted Cowl It is the Sweet Honeycomb KAL from Interweave Crafts. […]
