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Baby Dress

Hej, Just quickly, I wanted to share a picture of a dress I recently finished for my baby niece. The pattern I used was this one, and I’m super pleased with how it turned out. As I write this, my niece is just under two months old, but the dress will be her first Birthday…

Knitting

Blogging: 30% boredom, 20% talent, 50% nepotism. Do not tumble dry.

This anonymous blogger with a sister who sounds freaking amazing wrote this great post about crochet. Just kidding, it’s my sister, and here is her post: http://landofmarj.weebly.com/the-state-of-yarn . Yes, I’m the prolific little sister who wants a sheep. My syster’s (as they say in Sweden) blog also includes posts on other interesting topics such as…

Pattern

Lily Ear Flap Hat

I realise I haven’t posted on this blog all year. And I didn’t specifically plan to, since I’ll be finishing my Masters this year, so, you know, busy busy. But I was writing this design on my iPad anyway, so I thought I’d copy and paste it to my blog. I whipped up this beanie…

Tutorial

How I do a Tension (Gauge) Swatch

I started a new project recently. It’s a pair of socks for my best friend from primary school. The first Christmas after I learned to knit, I made her a red lace scarf, the next year a red lace beanie, the next year red lace gloves, so this year for Christmas I’m making her red…

Design

Kanadaroo

Hi, I’m still sad about my rabbit. It’s hard to grieve when you’re away from the creature who has died. I’ve usually found the death of a pet to be much easier to handle than the death of a person, which is logical, and I assumed it was because I value my human relationships more…

Thoughts

Rest in Peace, Coal

My last post was about how I had made a toy rabbit out of yarn I spun from the fur of my real rabbit, Coal. In that post, I talked about how Coal was getting older and I wanted to make the rabbit as something to remember him by when he passes away. My mum…

Knitting

Birth of the Meta-rabbit

Hello,I’ve finished the first semester of my Masters and have spent the last couple of weeks doing very little psychologing (technical term), back home in South Australia. Apart from epic DVD marathons and epic naps, I’ve been doing lots of spinning. This is great because I don’t have any of my spinning gear in Hobart…

Thoughts

Family is fantastic

I’m procrastinating big time on my last assignment for the semester. In doing so, I’ve been narcissistically (definitely a word) looking over my posts from my trip to Europe, and it occurred to me how great family is. How great is family? On my trip to the UK I met several family members who are…

Knitting

Happy Birthday, Grandma!

Today is my Grandma’s 90th Birthday. Unfortunately, my Grandma died in 2007, but I believe that she’s out in the universe somewhere and happy. She is the Grandma who joined the army as a teenager during WWII, but who was happy as a mother to my dad and his siblings. She is the Grandma who…

Knitting

My Knitting is Waiting!

It is a public holiday today. ANZAC Day (shout out to my brother in the navy even though he definitely won’t read this). I’m taking a short break from homework which I will be doing all day so that I can have a quick snack. My knitting has gone neglected for a couple of days…