Weekly Newsletters
Sept. 21, 2024
NewsletterWoodworking Breakthroughs and Magic Wands
This was a proper week of woodworking. The wood arrived last week Friday, and I got started on it the next day. I started sawing the massive sheets (2.4m x 1.2m) of plywood in garden. I have a handsaw and it was heavy going…
Sept. 14, 2024
NewsletterSeptember Setup
This week I officially finished my new blog. All the functionality is done finally! There is always tweaks and improvements, but am happy with the current state and testing is done so am happy to realise it.
Sept. 7, 2024
NewsletterCanned Passata and Woodworking Set Up
Finally made it back HOME on Monday afternoon. I finished the third ball of wool on the Rikke jumper on the plane. I want to start making jumper tags for the back of the neck to write down the pattern and wool used written on it, potentially add it to old
Aug. 31, 2024
NewsletterNordic Knitting Inspiration
This week was a holiday week so had a few things on pause. We took a trip around a some Nordic areas from Copenhagen to Gotland to Stockholm, ending with a Swedish wedding. This isn’t a travel blog so I won’t say too much on the travels, other than…
Aug. 24, 2024
NewsletterCoding and Travelling
This week has been travel central. Started off the weekend to Tuesday in Belgium. That was a nice few days chilling with family, cleaning the sheep wool. I also took a bunch of cuttings from Hydrangea plants that my parents have here.
Aug. 17, 2024
NewsletterPlant Propagation and Sheep Wool
This week I’ve been thinking about redesigning this blog. Initially I had some ideas of adding pages to it, for example a project planning page, which would be a table view of the projects I’m planning, projects I have done etc. Filterable would be great.
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Latest Completed Projects
Oct. 17, 2024
ProjectScotty Sweater
Project has started well. Stockinette is knitting up relatively quick. Am on the body section now. After this the neck collar and the two sleeves. I'm holding one strand of the Gotland yarn, and one strand of alpaca silk.
Oct. 6, 2024
ProjectPractice Dovetail Box
This is a quick little project to practice dovetails before the real project of the tool cupboard. This turned out much more difficult than expected... Well, I did expect it to be difficult and given I hard it is to just saw in a straight line, a perfect
Oct. 6, 2024
ProjectDovetail Template and Guide
Two mini projects I'd like to do here. One is the dovetail template. This will help me draw out the same angles each time. I could make 3 templates; one 1:6 one 1:7 and one 1:8. The 1:7 is the angle that is used most I believe. Here is an article on how t