PSA: Project Cyclops
Plutonium Muffins - A healthy source of fibre!
by Corrie Berry
3y ago
I’m sitting in Pret a Manger writing a blog post I’ve had no idea how to write. When you take a few weeks of blogging, you suddenly log on one day and realise you haven’t written anything for three months, despite thinking most days “I should write something for Plutonium Muffins”. One of the things I’ve been experiencing this year has been a general fatigue concerning anything to do with social media, the Internet, technology and growing up in a world that doesn’t seem to know which way is up, and how to get by without losing yourself in an endless stream of memes, bad news, and carefully cur ..read more
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Menagerie wedding sampler
Plutonium Muffins - A healthy source of fibre!
by Corrie Berry
3y ago
A couple of weeks ago I went to the wedding of one of my good friends from work and his lovely new wife. The happy couple are the proud owners of a veritable petting zoo, and I wanted to stitch them a wedding sampler to celebrate their nuptials, personalised with representations of their pets. I filmed the process of putting this together from beginning to end – you can see the video here. Designing the wedding sampler When I moved to my current house, I dug through my collection of craft books and identified a stack I wanted to donate to charity/give away. I was persuaded not to with the wise ..read more
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World Cup Cardigan – a finished object!
Plutonium Muffins - A healthy source of fibre!
by Corrie Berry
3y ago
Over the course of the World Cup this year, I finished the “Whoooo am I?” cardigan as promised in my last post. As also stated in that post, the weather is currently far too hot to actually wear the cardigan – we took the photos in the Eden Project and you can guarantee it got taken off the second the photos were done! Anyway, the sense of accomplishment and urge to keep creating has been absolutely worth it, and come autumn I’ll be happy with the addition to my wardrobe. World Cup Cardigan Not many people know that I enjoy a good game of football, and with so much on the box this year, it was ..read more
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Whoooo am I? A cardigan!
Plutonium Muffins - A healthy source of fibre!
by Corrie Berry
3y ago
Before I start talking about my new cardigan project (and this blog post ended up being a monster, I really do miss writing), let’s address the fact that it’s been two months since I last posted with a little photo. Time to get my study on… This has been my life for the last couple of months – two courses, two exams (one passed and the other results still to come). I was a bit cocky when I started training to be an accountant. “I worked in finance while I studied full time at uni…the other way round should be the same, right?” was a constant refrain when I first started. Wrong. It’s hard ..read more
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Time
Plutonium Muffins - A healthy source of fibre!
by Corrie Berry
3y ago
I’ve been in a reflective mood recently, and have spent a lot of time drafting blog posts trying to put that feeling into words. As I was taking a walk around Bristol Harbour this morning, I realised that my feelings about time itself were one of the things I was most reflecting on. The long and short of it has been that the space between my daily milestones – the alarm going off, breakfast, the lunch break, dinner time, back to bed again – has come to mean a different thing to me in a relatively short space of…well, time. Reflections – Bristol, March 2018Time is the wisest counsellor of all T ..read more
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Pixie Slipper Boots from the Wool Shop Leeds
Plutonium Muffins - A healthy source of fibre!
by Corrie Berry
3y ago
Last week I finished the pixie slipper boots, the first knitting project I’ve completed for myself in, wait for it….well over a year. Every year for the last few I’ve made the resolution “make more stuff for myself”, and every year I seem to just get worse at this. Never mind, the dry spell is over and I now have my very own fancy elf-like slippers to pad around the house in. Pixie Slipper Boots I bought the Pixie Slipper Boots kit from the Wool Shop Leeds when they were exhibiting at the Stitching, Sewing and Hobbycrafts Show last summer. Ricky also bought the kit, and with the pattern has ma ..read more
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Frozen Sunday and the tiniest amount of knitting
Plutonium Muffins - A healthy source of fibre!
by Corrie Berry
3y ago
The “Beast from the East: Mach 2” hit the UK this weekend and everything got literally frozen. For those of you who don’t live here and are under the illusion that the picturesque postcard image you have in your head of thatch cottages covered in thick snow, rolling white hills and annual blizzards is the norm, don’t be fooled. The last time we experienced snow like this was in 2011/2012, and I can only think of a few other times from the age I moved to the country (at 11) that we actually got the experience the snow. For many it was a novelty and a joy – for me it’s been something of an irrit ..read more
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Fuss Free Baby Boom – a cardigan and some booties
Plutonium Muffins - A healthy source of fibre!
by Corrie Berry
3y ago
The baby boom is (almost) over! The last one of my friends to leave work on maternity leave has gone, and with her all my requirements for baby knitting. I haven’t blogged about this for a little while because I’ve moved house again (how many times is that in the life of this blog…? Eight by my count in the last six years…) so here is all the knitting I’ve done since finishing the crochet blanket I wrote about here. Bunny bootees for two babies side by sideRabbit Bootees I spent some time over Christmas knitting some booties for two of the pregnancies, one of whom was my line manager and expec ..read more
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A deadline: One year late is better than never?
Plutonium Muffins - A healthy source of fibre!
by Corrie Berry
3y ago
It’s pertinent that the next thing I wanted to blog about was deadlines, deadline knitting, missing deadlines, being late for deadlines….because here I am a month later having missed all my self-imposed deadlines after a good start to the year. I’m most annoyed about this, but has been the consequence of some personal stuff that I won’t be talking about here. Suffice to say the year hasn’t taken the direction I really expected it to, and my focus has been taken from the blog somewhat. I’m going to keep trying – you’ll just have to be patient with me! I did already talk about this topic over on ..read more
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Craft appreciation
Plutonium Muffins - A healthy source of fibre!
by Corrie Berry
3y ago
This year, my lovely gran has been showing appreciation for the makes I’ve gifted her over the years by sending me WhatsApp messages and pictures talking about them. In the past she quite regularly sent me photos of the items in use as well. It’s absolutely blooming lovely! Craft appreciation In this blog post, I made reference to the fact that once you hand items you’ve made over to their intended user you can sometimes never see them again. It can be quite demotivating not knowing if they’re being appreciated, or if you should have just gone for a shop-bought thing instead. Ever since writin ..read more
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