It was a good weekend in the crochet-world. I finally got on with finishing the second front piece of the cardigan. I ended up with a different neckline shape to the first piece, though, which only served to emphasis the need to frog the first and re-make it. Not a happy thought. However, it turned… Continue reading Crocheting Baby Cardigans
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Card of the Week: Falling Leaves
In my few crafting moments this week I haven’t actually made any cards. I’ve mostly just been playing with my new Cuttlebug, which arrived ahead of schedule, so my desk hadn’t been cleared yet. It still isn’t. Sort of. I did clear it, and then I messed it up again. My first attempt at embossing… Continue reading Card of the Week: Falling Leaves
Notes From My Office: May 2022
Another month down, and one in which my crafting took a back seat. I suspect that may continue to be the case in May, although I have a new toy arriving soon which may prevent that. Having struggled for so long to get along with my Gemini, and because I don’t often need an A4… Continue reading Notes From My Office: May 2022
Nature Notes: April 2022
Spring is a time of notoriously changeable weather, and this April has been no different. It started warm and sunny, then dipped back to cold and hail, before recovering somewhat to end with sunshine. At least, it’s sunny as I write this. The patio doors are open and I’m listening to the birds singing. The… Continue reading Nature Notes: April 2022
Previous Projects: Butterflies and Rosebuds
When I was young, I used to like collecting caterpillars and mullion leaves and keeping them in old ice cream tubs with netting over the top until they turned into butterflies (cabbage whites, I think most of them were). I think I was trying to watch for the exact moment when the butterfly hatched from the chrysalis,… Continue reading Previous Projects: Butterflies and Rosebuds
Notes From My Office: April 2022
The clocks have gone forward, the sun is beginning to shine (last week’s flurry of snow an aberration), and the optimism of summer is making itself known. Soon, I hope, the daily overtime for the day-job will come to an end (it started before Christmas), and then perhaps I will have the energy to craft… Continue reading Notes From My Office: April 2022
Nature Notes: March 2022
British Summer Time began on Sunday. We’ve finally started having the sunshine and warmer temperatures that make it seem like summer might actually arrive as well, though there are forecasts for sleet later in the week. When I was a child, I was told that summer began when you could stand on seven daisies with… Continue reading Nature Notes: March 2022
Easy Chocolate Fudge Cake
It feels a bit – odd; insensitive, maybe – to write about light-hearted, essentially fluffy things at the moment, with the news so full of the horrors of war and man’s inhumanity. It’s part of the reason why I’m late today, with my talk of easy, lazy chocolate fudge cake. But sometimes, when all is… Continue reading Easy Chocolate Fudge Cake
Notes From My Office: March 2022
Today is Shrove Tuesday. Otherwise known, in Britain, as Pancake Day, and in other countries or languages as some variation on Fat Tuesday. The day on which the eggs, milk and butter – all the rich foods – are used up before their banishment for the duration of Lent. Hence the pancakes in Britain. Traditionally,… Continue reading Notes From My Office: March 2022
Nature Notes: February 2022
Ah, it started so well, did February. There were days of sunshine and warming temperatures. The birds were out and about, the plants happy in their pots. And then last week, with Storms Dudley, Eunice and Franklin one after another, happened. It’s been wet and wild, grey and miserable, ever since. Because these haven’t been… Continue reading Nature Notes: February 2022
Life Ever Crafting 