REMAKING A BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF KNITTING A beautiful and generous gift A couple of years ago an artist friend gave me a beautiful knitted stole she had made. I was absolutely thrilled to receive this as it was so brightly coloured and very much her style. However, a stole is not something I…
CROCHET ELBOW PATCHES I am gradually working through my hubby's winter woollies, ready for him to wear as the weather gets colder. Each year in the spring, I wash all our jumpers and put them away ready for the following winter, but I don't always get around to attending to any repairs at…
The downward spiral In 2020 we longed for the normality of 2019. In 2021 we thought that perhaps 2020 hadn’t been so bad after all. “Three weeks to flatten the curve”? Hmm. The majority are ruled by fear and are willingly giving up their basic freedoms and submitting to totalitarianism. However, for the…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? A great sense of achievement this week - two projects completed, and another one started! Kitty Throw Working on the border I was very thrilled to find the pattern for this border online. I think it works very well with the solid squares of this blanket, and…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Kitty throw A milestone! I felt really chuffed as I joined in the final square at the bottom right of the blanket - the one with our initials in a heart. Imagine a fanfare. All the squares are now joined, and the blanket itself is complete. I…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Kitty throw A little while ago I made up the first "column" of squares for the kitty throw, just to see how it would go with the crocheting-together method. This was before I had added any embellishments. Here it is, complete with two very sleepy photo-bombers. This…
HRH Prince Philip, RIP This week, with millions of others around the globe, we watched the final journey of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, beloved husband and the "rock and stay" of our Queen for 73 years, and exemplar of a lifetime of duty and service, as he was laid to…
It's been a busy week Chez Shosh. What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Steaming ahead with the cat throw and reaching the next milestone - I have finished crocheting all the embellishments. This is how the chart looks now: The bottom section is now blank! This means that there are no more "still…
Well, what can one say about 2020? So much has been said already so I'm not going to say anything! - at least, about national and world events which I actually do have a great deal to say about, but this is not a political blog. I shall stick to my own personal…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? I've been making good progress on tiny carpet #3. The border is now complete. I was about to embark on filling in the background with the dark blue thread, when I happened to be watching something on TV that featured oriental carpets. I noticed that the plain…
