Happy New Year 2024 and Yarn unboxing
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by Fiona T
2M ago
Happy New Year everyone! I haven’t had a chance to blog much over the last few weeks, but I have been crafting a storm in the background. Having full days in my craft room during my holidays has been a blessing. I have been able to get back into some old projects, spending mornings on intricate tatting and more complex patterns, while my afternoons and evenings have been spent working on less complex projects. I am preparing blogs on each of these projects to share with you soon. At the end of November, I ordered yarn from Hobbii’s black Friday sale. Today’s blog is a ‘yarn unboxing’ of Hobbii ..read more
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Embracing the Artistry: A Delightful Day at the Hand Knitters Guild Yarn and Craft Market in Coburg, Melbourne
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by Fiona T
11M ago
Today I was fortunate enough to attend the Hand Knitters Guild Yarn and Craft Market in Melbourne. Yarn enthusiasts, artisans, and creative souls gathered at the Hand Knitters Guild Yarn and Craft Market to immerse themselves in a world of fibres, colours, and endless possibilities. The event was a celebration of the timeless art of hand knitting, bringing together seasoned knitters, aspiring crafters, and curious visitors alike. As I stepped into the venue, I was greeted by a vibrant tapestry of yarn, and the warm embrace of a community passionate about their craft. Ixchel silver star yarn an ..read more
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Miniature knitting dolls and Easter gifts
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by Fiona T
11M ago
Two sizes of minature fox, Pattern from https://www.ravelry.com/stores/esther-braithwaite-designs The bigger, but still mini, version of the fox, wolf and deer. A 2 x2 rib beanie (standard pattern) and two miniature eggs, one with a rabbit toy and one with a dinosaur toy from Elendan The wind down from term 1 of 2023 led me to make some more miniature dolls in both crochet and knitted fabrics. The Forest friend’s pattern is from Esther Braithwaite designs on Ravelry: https://www.ravelry.com/stores/esther-braithwaite-designs . I enjoy knitting these miniature toys in 4ply cotton from BWM on the ..read more
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Crafting a creative space
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by Fiona T
1y ago
For the last 15 years our spare bedroom was briefly a guest room, then it became the storage room. It was full of boxes from our move, tubs with my craft supplies and projects, exercise equipment and things waiting to be given to charity. In December my Wonderful Husband decided it was time to repaint this room and change the flooring, as it was the last room in the house with the old carpet. First, all of the boxes and other stuff were moved into our lounge area. Then the flooring was removed and replaced. It is only when we moved everything out of the room, we could see just how much had bee ..read more
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Crafting a creative space
One Mad Tatter
by Fiona T
1y ago
For the last 15 years our spare bedroom was briefly a guest room, then it became the storage room. It was full of boxes from our move, tubs with my craft supplies and projects, exercise equipment and things waiting to be given to charity. In December my Wonderful Husband decided it was time to repaint this room and change the flooring, as it was the last room in the house with the old carpet. First, all of the boxes and other stuff were moved into our lounge area. Then the flooring was removed and replaced. It is only when we moved everything out of the room, we could see just how much had bee ..read more
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Christmas tatting
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by Fiona T
1y ago
Another project from 2022 was beginning to make some tatted baubles for a work Christmas “Kris Kringle” present. I bought these plastic baubles quite a few years ago now, and decided that it was time to make some snowflake topped baubles. The patterns are all Alenalea Design’s, bought from her etsy shop a few years ago also. I used a Milford Mercerised cotton in size 20 to make these, as the pattern states. I also blocked the tatting onto the baubles, to help them sit well, as advised in the pattern. The front view of the three baubles after blocking.Top view of the three baubles. Another angl ..read more
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Miniature clothes for Barbie
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by Fiona T
1y ago
Welcome to another blog post. My last few crafting posts have shared items I made in 2022, and never got around to blogging. This year I am trying to get my blog organised, and document more of my crafting life. During 2022 I delved into more miniature knitting. I decided to make some clothes for my Neice’s Barbie dolls, as a birthday gift. I really enjoyed the process, from hunting down vintage pattern books on eBay and Etsy, locating patterns for top-down jumpers on Ravelry and making these items on my Addi crasy trio needles, and chiagoo miniature lace needles. I also got to dive into my Be ..read more
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Make it so! Amigurumi crochet and a few other gifts
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by Fiona T
1y ago
At the end of 2022 a few of my work colleagues moved on to different schools. Some of these people had become my close friends during the last three years, and I took the time to handmade some gifts. There was also a birthday and a new baby, so lots of gifts to make. I was particularly eager to make this amigurumi Star trek Picard for one colleague, who had many nerdy chats about Star Trek with me. I did tat a tardis for him, but then rethought it as he really loves Captain Picard, so made that instead. I enjoyed making this item, and the simplicity as it was all made in one piece. The pattern ..read more
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Book review ‘Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance’
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by Fiona T
1y ago
I don’t often review novels, but I loved reading this book and want to help other crafty people find books they may enjoy. I hope to do a few more posts about the cozy mystery series I enjoy reading, though many of them have been out for years and the book in this post is very new. I recently read the newly released book ‘Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance‘, by Kate Solly. (The linked book title will take you to the back cover matter.) I usually enjoy reading cozy mysteries, focusing on crafting and solving puzzles. This novel was a nice change to that genre but it still had cr ..read more
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A window project
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by Fiona T
1y ago
Over our Summer holidays we enjoyed watching the new series “Wednesday”. As soon as I saw the stained glass window, I could see it as a doily and knew I had to tat it. It could also be a crocheted doily, but that is a project for another day. I found that I had some appropriately coloured threads for this in my stash, and so I set to developing a pattern. I ended up using a lot of split rings, both single shuttle and using two shuttles. There were a couple of stumbling blocks, when things didn’t quite line up, or went a bit out of shape. I had hoped to make a bigger doily, but with size 40 thr ..read more
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