Tag: Friday Arts & Crafts Day

No finishes this week, but so it goes. Let’s see here… we’ll start with some dye jobs. I got these plain white with black stars pillowcases at Homesense a while back and got around to dyeing them: And there was a bit more aida dyeing as well: There were...

We have a finish! Well, a couple, but let’s work big to little: I buckled down and wove in the ends on the “Pretty Maids” by Joyce Fassbender shawl that I mentioned last week. Then I buckled down and wet-blocked it to really finish it and get it stretched...

Well, somewhere in the back of my mind I thought I had a couple half-done knitting projects kicking around somewhere and sure enough, they turned up when I was cleaning out the spare room closet. First up, “Interlude” by Shannon Dunbabin, knit with some handspun yarn I bought a...

Happy October! It’s the season of wanting warm knits. You’d think that would mean I would have touched my Wassailing Stole as mentioned in last week’s post, but you’d be wrong. Instead, I tried my hand at knitting socks. Well, one sock. Well, I got a couple inches in...

Not that anyone cares, but hey, this is fun for me. And it keeps this stuff out of the Saturday life update post, so let’s make this a weekly thing, eh? Also… stitching = embroidery, but meh, when I knit, those are called stitches too. Let’s start with the...