Pastel Cashmere Scarf
I stumbled across some hand-painted, lace-weight, pure cashmere on eBay in June and simply couldn’t resist it. Only 40gms but I figured there’d be enough to make a reasonable scarf. I made an Apple Blossom Stole last summer and really liked the lace pattern which was actually quite simple to work. The cashmere seemed ideal to apply the same pattern to a scarf. The only real change I made was to start with a chain of 54 instead of the 78 in the original pattern. I also decided to work the trellis pattern as per the original stole so that…
Nanny Ogg’s Parlour
As I already have 2 dollhouses (a Victorian country villa and a WWII house), it was decided that I would have to switch to room boxes. After all, there’s only so much room for 1:12 dollhouses in a pretty small 3-bed terrace.
The Raw Silk Top Affair
A few months ago, I made myself a really pretty crocheted top ( “Cupcake” from “The Happy Hooker”) using cream raw silk. I was really quite pleased with it. It was cool and really, really, light. Then R got his hands on it…
Back To School
The next school term started today and K was back in class!
