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Yet another hat - seems to be a recurring theme for me recently. After making lots for charity and the occasional pressie I might keep this one. It does fit, I just pulled it down for the photo to show off as much of the cable stitch as possible. I’m quite proud of that as it’s my first attempt at cabling. I made some twistys. It’s quite easy when you know what you’re doing to be honest, so I’d like to do more. But no more hats for a while.
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I got a few Christmassy mini cross stitch kits as pressies this year and couldn’t resist stitching this little fella while I was sat in front of the TV. The pattern in the kit wasn’t great, they’d drawn the outlines of different colour blocks without much regard for the grid layout, so there were lots of awkward 1/3 square shapes that would have been tricky to do (it wasn’t up to the high standard that I’m used to from the rather wonderful Penelope Teapot kits). Rather than trying to do the fiddly little stitches I modified the pattern slightly and am quite pleased with the result. Will have to think of a way of incorporating this and the other designs into decorations for next Christmas.
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Pete’s running the Liverpool Marathon to raise money for the RNLI and is wearing an RNLI running top. When I offered to sew his name on he asked if it could be in helvetica. Well he is a font geek.
I haven’t done much sewing since I was seduced by the woolly side and took up knitting a few years ago. I was shocked by just how blunt my scissors have got in the time, which made cutting out perfect helvetica letters quite challenging, but I’m pleased with how they turned out.
If you see Pete running tomorrow please shout some words of encouragement - like ‘Lovely font!’
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Pete is running the Liverpool Marathon this year. If I could I would cheer him along every step off the way but I’m just not that good a runner - I’ll wave him off at the start and hopefully catch up with him at some point along the route before meeting up again at the end but that’s all.
So I decided to embroider a motivational message of support on his wristband. This way if he’s feeling a bit low he can look at his arm and know that I’m with him in spirit. I really hope this helps.
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Last winter I was a little embarrassed of wearing my old shop-bought beanie to the knitting group. It was about time I made my own. This summer I enjoyed making the forces beanies so much that I couldn’t resist making myself one - in a non-camouflage colour, of course. I don’t often make stuff for just for me, really should do it more often
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A model wears a creation by the fashion designer Walter Van Beirendonck.
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I had so much fun making this cute little frog in a Jumping Clay workshop at the Creative Stitches and Hobbycrafts show at Aintree, I went back after lunch to make this bear. I hope the fingerprint by his nose looks like freckles - that was totally deliberate by the way. Honest. And the tiny bit of white clay on the far right is supposed to be a highlight on his nose but I prefer him without it.
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