Archive for the ‘knitting’ Category
Tweet :: A simple recipe for a warm winter’s eve :: light the lamps pull on your fleecy slippers and a cosy flannel skirt snuggle a soft knitted shawl round your shoulders share steaming cups of tea & whilst brewing tea, make hot water bottles add a wee glass of muscat – warms the throat [...]
Tweet I know. I promised there would be a quilted/upholstered chess board to share this evening. And truly – it was going to happen. Except that when I settled all my tools and fabrics on the kitchen table, I discovered there was nary a staple to be had for my staple gun – it being [...]
Tweet if you would like to share your ~loveliness found~ moments from this week please leave them in the comments or share a link to your place! ~ a basket filled with beautiful but under-appreciated yarn, bought many years ago, now being knitted into something warming & special for someone very loved ~ ~ dragged [...]
Tweet … as opposed to knitting a cardie :-) It started with this jumper … I think I inherited it from an aunty … it’s lambswool with a bit of mohair. Very soft and cosy. But it was just a little claustrophobic as a jumper and it’s sat, unworn, in my woollens cupboard for the [...]
Tweet ~ very simple, very sweet and oh so very soothing ~ ~ new friendships were cherished, endings that arrived so quickly were lamented & promises were made ~ ~ an early morning prac was rewarded with a steamy, creamy bowl of coffee in the sun ~ ~ knit, knit, knit, knit, knit … & [...]
Tweet See! It’s not a dreary colour at all, but instead, a lovely celery green. And such deliciously smooshy yarn too – almost slightly felted. It’s a chunky (12 ply) Cleckheaton that is no longer made – found, of course, in the bargain basement of Wondoflex for a mere $2.50 a ball. Best value pure [...]
Tweet if you would like to share your ~loveliness found~ moments from this week … & I would so love it if you did … please leave them in the comments or share a link to your place! ~ making some time to put one little square of fabric with another & finding just as [...]
Tweet … sorry the blog hasn’t been working properly the last few days … wordpress had changed things … & I hadn’t upgraded … Abby worked it out … Julian fixed it … & hopefully all is fine now :-) … I know … it is supposed to be my quiet, much anticipated day. And nothing [...]
Tweet We have a special guest coming on Wednesday – an exchange student from Japan! Abby is SOOOOOOOO excited. The spare ‘oom is almost ready – just need to make up the bed and give the dressing table a dust. As for the rest of Bootville – the front porch needs a little tidy and [...]
Tweet ~ my mummy coming to visit – with an icebox full of pouring cream! ~ ~ the soda stream – Julian’s Christmas present – adored by the whole family – soda water on tap is just the best ~ ~ following Alicia’s advice to try this technique – and loving it so much we’re [...]
Tweet phew … it’s been a big week here in Bootville. Classes started afresh for the academic year. All 7am starts – very tiring for this out of practice would-be-nurse. And in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, a fox broke into the chooks’ house and killed Benny and Souffie – ripped out their throats. [...]
Tweet It’s quite extraordinary, but since our kitchen table moved five inches west (this very small re-arrange kicked off the great floor scrub), it has been transformed from a “rather-in-the-way-but-we-tolerate-it-because-we-want-to-eat-in-the-kitchen-and-one-day-when-we-have-our-dream-kitchen-it-will-be-marvellous” table to a “oh-my-this-is-indeed-the-best-spot-in-the-house-to-be” table. Just five inches! That’s all it took to bring about such a delightful change in how we use our kitchen. [...]