The wonderful thing about knitting for baby is that the projects are quite short, or at least the simple ones I choose are, and so it’s a lot of instant gratification.
The booties above were knitted years ago using a pattern my gran knew by heart. As soon as she found out that someone was expecting, [...]
Posts tagged ‘crossstitch’
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Knitting for baby
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- Categories :: Children, Knits | Tags :: collaboration, crossstitch, family, knitting
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Progress update
I have to admit that my mum finished our cross stitch challenge before me. I like to claim that it is because I was working on other projects too at the time but I guess I should come to terms with the fact that she’s a lot more experienced than me :-)
Silliness aside, working with [...]- one comment
- Categories :: Crafts, Knits | Tags :: crossstitch, family, grannysquares, projects
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Cross Stitch progress
Cross stitch still seems to have a spell on me. And on my mum too. She’s way ahead of me with her work but she hasn’t sent me a photo to show you yet (go on, leave her a comment to do so, perhaps she’ll listen to you).
As you can see, I’ve started some backstitching. [...]- one comment
- Categories :: Crafts | Tags :: crossstitch, family, grannysquares
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Cross stitch update
Cross stitch is in full gear around this place. I’ve been doing a little bit every day and I’m quite pleased with it so far.
It’s not all been smooth sailing though. After I finished the bit with white thread I figured out that the colour required was, in fact, number 746 which is a bit [...]- Categories :: Crafts | Tags :: crafting, crossstitch, family
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Weekend review
We had a lovely weekend doing lots of things. A bit of chores and a lot of hobbies made the two days stretch longer than usual.
I spent a lot of my free time during the weekend working away on my cross stitch. Sitting on the sofa by the window, I had a great view of [...]- Categories :: Crafts, Food, Knits | Tags :: cake, crochet, crossstitch, grannysquares, homelife, projects