My Gemini doesn’t get out much. At present, its permanent home seems to be in its box. Mostly this is because I don’t have a space with accompanying plug sockets for it on the desk, or anywhere else in my craft room. So I mostly use my mini Aldi die cutting machine. But a recent… Continue reading This Week In Crafts: Embossing (Or Not) Tulips
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This Week in Crafts: Ducks and Swallows
I haven’t actually crocheted at all this month. There are occasional thoughts of coasters to go with the colourful tablecloths, but I haven’t made any. Yet. Probably there will be some at some point. Just not now. Instead, I’ve been playing with several bird stamps, and with the few Distress inks I have, to make… Continue reading This Week in Crafts: Ducks and Swallows
This Week In Crafts: Clearly Besotted Snowdrops
It’s amazing what a difference the gradually lightening evenings makes on one’s mood. Especially when it becomes noticeably lighter, and I’m not having to draw the blinds at half four, but can leave it until I finish working. February is still very cold, and the weather isn’t usually anything to write home about, but the… Continue reading This Week In Crafts: Clearly Besotted Snowdrops
TWIC: Gina the Giraffe
One of the good things about being a crafter is that Christmas usually comes with crafty things. In this instance, a crochet kit from Teeny Tiny Knits for a giraffe key-ring, which was just the sort of thing I needed after the numerous stockings I’d made before Christmas. Oh, I still have masses of yarn,… Continue reading TWIC: Gina the Giraffe
TWIC: The Spring Hedgehog
It isn’t quite Spring, not just yet, but January has such depressing weather when it isn’t snowing. I’m looking ahead and pretending there is sunshine. Easier to do when I don’t have to go outside and face reality. I know I have the map to complete, but since I haven’t actually done any stitching since… Continue reading TWIC: The Spring Hedgehog
TWIC: Sloths and Macaws
With Christmas now behind us, and the decorations down, I’ve turned to this year’s birthdays. Partly because it’s good to have something cheery to think about, amidst all the gloom of Lockdown 3.0, and also because the first birthdays of the year for me are this week or next. I did actually get these cards… Continue reading TWIC: Sloths and Macaws
TWIC: Lots More Christmas Stockings
I’ve been making a lot of the Hobbycraft Christmas stocking pattern I tried last month. Much easier than the Aldi pattern I already had. I’ve got them down to an art, I think, and can whip one up in about half an hour. It helps that I now have the pattern well and truly fixed… Continue reading TWIC: Lots More Christmas Stockings
TWIC: Gnome Gift-Tags
In the ordinary way of things, I should have been cross-stitching this week, either the latest freebie or a bit more of my map. I’ve done neither, because of all the rush to make sure Christmas parcels are despatched in plenty of time to get to their various destinations. Instead, I’ve been making gift-tags with… Continue reading TWIC: Gnome Gift-Tags
TWIC: Cheerful Cards
It’s been very grey and dark of late. Very wrap up under a blanket and shut the world out sort of weather. Such is the way of winter. A few weeks ago, having seen the lovely stained-glass stamp set with a recent issue of Creative Stamping, I took the opportunity to also pick up a… Continue reading TWIC: Cheerful Cards
TWIC: Christmas Stockings
Every Christmas since I started crocheting, I’ve thought about making little stockings, perhaps to hang on the tree. A couple of years ago I picked up a crochet kit from Aldi, with three patterns for Christmas decorations, one of which was a stocking. It was the reason I got the kit. I still haven’t made… Continue reading TWIC: Christmas Stockings
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