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A Moment In Yarn

May 1, 2011

I’ve created a new project, A Moment In Yarn…  It focuses on translating warm memories into crocheted granny squares. Talking to people and asking them for a happy memory to translate into tangible crochet for them to hold and keep. Today I did one for someone, and they got teary over it. I think that’s [...]

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handmade, homemade goodness

December 20, 2009

Firstly, two beautiful things. We needed a peg bag, and rather than just buy one, I asked the ever clever Becclebee to sew us one. This is what she made… I love the machine stitching, and the cute little jocks! How beautiful is that? Next is some handgrown garden goodness. I went out this morning [...]

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July 26, 2009

Yesterday Jude and I attended a High Tea in Kyneton. It was organised by the Zetland Masonic Lodge up there for charity, raising funds for the Starlight Foundation. I’d never been to a High Tea before, and I was delighted by the experience. To your right was my place setting, note the beautiful tea cup, [...]

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Home Made Help book on presale now!

July 2, 2009

I’ve just got this email and I’m so excited I wanted to share it with you right away!For those of you who don’t know, the Handmade Help blog put a call out for family recipes to combine into a book for the victims of the Black Saturday bushfires. They’ve lost everything, including treasured old family [...]

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The kindness of strangers

June 18, 2009

A few months ago I was running one of the the Knitting Club workshops and one of the ladies came over and showed me a book of toys and dolls (see right) I had a look through it and found one of the tiny toys my grandmother had knitted us when we were young (the [...]

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Gran-gran-grannying along

May 19, 2009

Last night I went to my first Brown Owls meeting! I know, I know, it’s May already and I’ve not been to any yet (apart from the very first meet-and-greet one) but I’ve been so darn busy. But they had a Granny Square lesson, so I signed up. I turned up to the Carlton Library, [...]

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So you blink and another week goes by

February 25, 2009

I can’t believe it’s Thursday already! Tuesday night I went as a proud new Brown Owl to the first meet of the year at Dante’s. Brown Owls, for those of you not in the know, is a crafty meetup organised by the amazing and lovely Pip from Meet Me At Mikes. It was so lovely [...]

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Such a crafty sunday!

February 22, 2009

What a lovely Sunday it was. I went to breakfast at a great cafe in Carlton, then went home and decided it was high time I finished a bunch of things off that have been kicking around for a while. So I first went to my mending pile, fixed two pairs of pants and two [...]

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Craft Cuddles

February 11, 2009

There are thousands of heartbreaking and heartwarming stories pouring out of the aftermath of the bushfires. The one that really got to me was I was watching the news the other day, and a reporter was telling how they had gone into one of the towns and the first lady they’d come across the day [...]

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Community

January 19, 2009

So I’ve been thinking about community for a while now. I’m sort of reading a book called Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam, which talks about the decline of the American community over the past 100 years. How people used to belong to bowling clubs, church groups, [...]

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