Crochet Blanket
8 Mar
I’ve started to crochet a blanket. Yay!
I’m using the Summer Garden Granny Square pattern which I found here via Ravelry. It’s so pretty. All of the squares will have the last round in white, but I’ll mix up the centres.
Archive | 08. Mar, 2010
Strawberry Jam
8 Mar
I made jam! I’ve never made it before and it’s so yummy!
I used the recipe on the back of my packet of Jamsetta which I would link to, but apparently Fowlers Vacola don’t have a website (or it’s very well hidden!).
The Red Wren
A redheaded lass called Ren, located in Melbourne, Australia. Likes to make, cook and grow things.
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Granny Squares
A few weeks back I enthusiastically signed up for Pip of Meet me at Mike’s Granny a Day 2010. It’s taken me a little while to get started and there’s been a lot of pulling apart failed first attempts, but today it finally clicked and I made my first ever square! It’s wonky and my [...]
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Forest Friends Quilt- Finished!
I spent some of this afternoon sitting in a sunny spot in the lounge room finishing the last of this quilt;
I really enjoyed working on this and it will be sad (in a good way) to see it head off to it’s new owner – a sweet little 18 month old by the name of [...]
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Doily Garland
Today we’re going to make a doily garland. It’s essentially a string of doily’s and paper circles sewn together.
You need:
1 packet of paper doilys. My garland used 32 (plus one extra for your circle template)
Christmas themed paper
circle template – cut the centre circle from your spare doily.
scissors
sewing machine, thread
1. Using your circle template (the centre [...]
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