Month: April 2018
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2018 First Quarter
Crafting goals for 2018 Complete 15 projects in knitting or crochet Complete 3 spinning projects Publish a design The year began much as it ended with crochet Imaginarium creatures flying off the hooks. . After six of these creatures in a year, I’m done for now. There are still three small girls I could make…
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Round-up – Knitting, spinning and crochet in 2017
The last time I posted a project round-up, I had met my target of 12 projects complete in 2017. Here’s what happened next: I finished the Woolly Wormhead hat: Toph I’m tending to wear it with the brim tucked underneath for about an inch, which makes it warmer round the ears and fits better at…
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Hay, that’s a good place to visit
Last summer, we had a family trip to Herefordshire. We stayed in a yurt on a farm, did various trips out and had a really good week. The daughter spent the whole time bugging the farmer to let her help clean out the animal pens, while the son spent most of the time reading. With…
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Some interesting things I have been reading
The Circle, by Dave Eggers – Sci-fi looking at the challenge of social media, bought at The White Rose Bookshop in Thirsk. This was written in 2013 and it is rather disconcerting how many of the futurist bits of the novel are now reality – Amazon’s Electra springs to mind. The questions that were raised…
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The state of the blog April 2018
Stating the obvious I’m out of the habit of blogging. There are a few drafts kicking around in the list of posts that I haven’t finished, plus a whole lot more posts that have never got beyond the mental note of oh, that would make a good topic. I even have a few piles of…