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Stash-Busting Striped Ripple Crochet Baby Blanket
26 October 2009
Read moreFor a few month I've been working on a handmade blanket for a baby expected by a couple of my friends - and I've finally been to visit and deliver it so here's some details of the project. (OK so baby Ethan is about a month old and I only just …
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Creating a Banner Bag
08 June 2009
Read moreOften at PHP Conferences, the organisers are good enough to give PHPWomen a table, and we have a banner we use on these occasions.
Its kind of an annoying thing to lug around with me - its about a metre high and usually travels in a cardboard tube. I've been all …
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Replacement Love-Knot Wrap
26 April 2009
Read moreA few years ago, when my little sister turned 21, I made her a crochet love-knot wrap. She's used it (as a warm scarf) since then but recently lost it moving between multiple different places in the French Alps while working as a nanny for a hotel chain. So I … -
Curious Combination of Craft and Code
18 April 2009
Read moreI'm a software developer, so I like to make things. The fact that some of these things involve yarn, fabric, or wood rather than code doesn't make any difference to how I feel about building things. For the most part my programmer friends think I'm strange for making woollen things …
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Home Made Yarn Swift
26 March 2009
Read moreSome time ago I started a project, using laceweight mohair, which I blogged about. Its take 6 months to finish the first skein, which was wound into a ball by friends, and now I'm ready for the next one. I've been chasing around trying to find a wool winder I …
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Granny's Christmas Blanket
12 January 2009
Read moreIt was a long time coming but I finally finished the blanket I was making for my granny - and in time for Christmas as well (well, almost. The border didn't get finished until Christmas Day but I didn't see my folks til Boxing Day anyway!). She was suitably surprised and …
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Christmas Preparations
21 December 2008
Read moreWe're hosting Christmas for family this year (actually its Kevin's family, but that's a technicality), and between preparations for that and having a new camera in the house, I have some nice photos. After all that we've done on this house, suddenly it feels like its coming together into a …
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Hanging Snowflakes Decoration
15 December 2008
Read moreLast year in January I bought (actually my dad paid for them, thanks dad!) a whole box of Christmas decorations from IKEA, for about 2 GBP. In the box were some snowflake decorations, and yesterday I made a little hanging snowflake decoration to go over the stairs in the hall …
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Blanket for Christmas
11 November 2008
Read moreI'm currently struggling a bit with my Christmas crochet, so I'm posting here to hopefully pressurise myself into actually finishing it in time. The plan is to make a blanket for my granny for Christmas (its a surprise, I'm banking on her not learning to work the 'net before then …
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Man-fit T-shirt to Girl Top
25 October 2008
Read moreI am sick beyond description of conference shirts, they are big and they are sack-like. I have lots of them, I'm expected to wear them a lot, and they are not particularly confidence-boosting. Dressing up for the crowd at technical events is not the way forward, but I am a …
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Crochet Tutorial: Next Steps
19 October 2008
Read moreIf you've been following the previous entries in this series, you'll have seen how to start to crochet, and if you've followed the instructions you should be able to add another couple of rounds onto your project and end up with something that looks like this:
There are a number …
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3-minute Crafty Earring Tidy
03 October 2008
Read moreRecently I was shopping for an embriodery hoop and I saw that you can buy ones which are ready-made picture frames, you literally put the fabric in, embrioder, then trim off the outside and tidy up the back. I decided that this would make a great basis for an earring …