Published - Mon, 07 Jul 25

Project Timeline: 02 Jan - 07 Jul (186 days)

Dagmar Zipper Sweater

Another pattern by Petite Knit, since her designs have worked out well for me so far. This time, I want to make a jumper out of the sheep wool from my family's sheep in Belgium.

2025-01-02

Spec:

- Knitting size S
- Recommended needle size
- 3ply home spun yarn

Another pattern by Petite Knit, since her designs have worked out well for me so far. This time, I want to make a jumper out of the sheep wool from my family's sheep in Belgium. The sheep bred are not particularly suited for yarn, they are woodland sheep I believe... But I thought it was be so cool to spin that wool and turn it into a jumper.

I have collected the family sheep wool for the past few years, and spun with it, but so far have only made knitt...

Published - Sat, 14 Jun 25

Project Timeline: 06 Apr - 14 Jun (69 days)

Vintage Blouse

Using up some leftover beige yarn.

This is the pattern I followed

This blouse has a lace pattern on the front, something which I haven't knit before. That was a great experience to try. It did mean a lot of looking at the pattern to make sure I'm not doing anything wrong. I don't think I ever got to a stage where I had memorised it. The rest of the blouse was simple stockinette stitch.

Half way through this project I left the yarn I was working with in Belgium so couldn't continue. A few weeks later though I went back to pick it up so was able to continue and finish it off. The sleeves are supposed to be more ...

Published - Mon, 16 Jun 25

Project Timeline: 02 Jun - 06 Jun (4 days)

Flower Fabric Clothes

I haven't been sewing in a while and it's been on my mind to try making some more clothes. While in France a few weeks ago, I found a fabric shop that sold loads of cool fabrics so got excited to try something. This would also be a great craft to do this summer in France.

I bought this flower fabric. It's a reasonably heavy weight, but I envisioned a colourful, bright outfit. I found this combo outfit pattern online that had a bikini-esque top, some shorts and a jacket. I thought I would try that. 

It turned out pretty good. No issues really. The fabric is a bit stiff though. I always make the same mistake, thinking thicker fabric is better quality. Bu...

Published - Mon, 19 May 25

Project Timeline: 15 May - 18 May (3 days)

Ring Toss Game

A common garden game that seemed easy to make.

I saw recently this at a fair in Belgium, and I've seen this game probably many times before. It seemed like a quick and easy wood working project, using up some leftover wood.

Fair simple process. I did have to buy some flat bottom drill bits to drill the holes for the sticks. I used bamboo cut down to about 15cm size to go in the holes, and I bought a pyrography pen (wood burning kit), to burn in the scores. This most works... I'm not good a wood burning yet, it requires a lot of skill it seems, but I managed some rudimentary numbers. Then I sanded and stained the wood.

I also made some rope rings, using some thick rope I had lying around. I watched a vi...

Published - Sat, 17 May 25

Project Timeline: 22 Apr - 17 May (25 days)

Garden Obelisks

A willow weaving project for my garden plants and a few vines on the field.

These garden obelisks will be to train my garden tomatoes this summer. Previous years I've used just bamboo sticks, but I found that they're quite slippery to tie plants onto. Yes they're strong sticks, but you need some horizontal supports to hold the tomato vines and the plants can get enourmous. 

I saw these obelisks on pinterest and thought they looked lovely and natural, so I ordered some willow from a farm and got to work! I found a YouTube video for method and instructions. I've done weaving before so it wasn't too tricky. 

Ideally I wanted to have the vertial stakes in willow as well as the weavers, but the willow I got was way to ...

Published - Wed, 30 Apr 25

Project Timeline: 14 Apr - 17 Apr (3 days)

Kentucky Stick Chairs

Two chairs for the field

I first came across these chairs, consciously, in Sweden last year. I saw these in people's front gardens in more rural areas, immediately loved the design and they looked simple to make. After searching around online I found a few woodworking blogs that gave the step by step instructions and it was known as the "Kentucky Stick Chair". At least that's what it's known as in the U.S. The origin of the design is unknown, and since its found in Europe as well, there are probably other names for it.

For this project, I actually found a timber merchant near me that I could drive to myself to pic...