Weekly Newsletters
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.
Aug. 11, 2024
NewsletterSewing Mojo and More Research
Over the weekend we walked around a few cute little villages around where we’re staying. We found a French clothing shop called Fragronad, which had some really nice clothes.
Aug. 3, 2024
NewsletterPlanning in the Cote d’Azure
This week was week the first of two weeks away in the South of France, so things are more low key on the craft front. I’ve taken with me the jumper I’m going to remake for my partner, but in a smaller size.
July 27, 2024
NewsletterA Pot and a Bunny
Over the weekend I decided to agree with the offer the seller’s land agent suggested. Negotiating hasn’t got me very far and I do just want the piece of land.
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Latest Completed Projects
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
Oct. 4, 2024
ProjectHalloween Costumes for Kids
Halloween is coming up and I have a niece and newphew (2 and 4 years old) that will be dressing up and trick or treating of course. A