After visiting Sacketts Hill, we decided to go to the beach to enjoy what is likely to have been the last of the summer weather. We headed to the beach and found a tea house right near the car park. It was lovely: someone’s home surrounded by flower gardens.
Unfortunately, the service was very slow and [...]
Molly’s been busy knitting recently. Here are a couple of her projects:
This doll was gifted to Alice and the socks were for Sebastian.
Molly went to the first meeting of the South Derbyshire Knitting Group that she helped to organized through Ravelry. There were nine knitters there, including her and River, and apparently it went off well. They are planning to meet bi-monthly in the future. Sage was inspired to take up finger-knitting with a [...]
Molly has been busy knitting recently. She finished up two projects that she’s been working on for a while.
Meet Rosemary, River’s new porcine companion.
She is named for the herb that Molly included with her stuffing.
Nice tail!
She also finished some wrist warmers for Sage. You might notice Sage is wearing her soccer cleats. [...]
I’ve been biking whenever I can recently and I decided I needed an ankle strap to keep my pants trousers out of the chain grease.
I came up with this solution:
We have a large stash of Queensland Collection Kathmandu Aran that I hope someday will turn into a sweater. So now I have a merino/silk/cashmere [...]
We got a wonderful package in the mail yesterday.
The girls’ aunt Deana made these beautiful aprons. The fabric is decorated with a pattern of little gnomes and toadstools. I can’t really find the words to describe these wonderful creations. The necessary copious superlatives escape me. Amazing work, Deana!
River was so [...]
I’ve had a couple of crafty days recently. I bought a kit a while ago to build a robot called “Herbie the mousebot“. I finally got around to buying a new soldering iron.
Here are all the parts laid out before we started:
Herbie is very cleverly designed; the solder joints hold the structure together [...]
We arrived back in England this morning after a couple of great weeks in Massachusetts. Everyone managed to sleep most of the way across the Atlantic, a significant portion of the way from Heathrow to Derby, and again in our own beds until two in the afternoon. So, our eyes aren’t as red [...]
I finally finished this project from Kids Knitting: Projects for Kids of all Ages. I managed to get quite a bit of knitting done on the plane. We’ve made several projects from this book now, including River’s knit purse. I’ve found the patterns to be well designed, simple, and enjoyable. I’m pretty pleased [...]
I just finished this felted messenger bag from knitty.com.
I decided to do the color stripes in a fibonacci pattern. If you’re mathematically included, you might notice that the rows go 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21 and then descend again onto the flap. If you’re not looking so carefully, you might just think it a coincidence that [...]
