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Maytheweed's Place: Holiday!
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Sunday, 4 September 2011. Last week MrK and I trundled off to Wales where my family had hired a cottage for the week. This cottage:. What do you mean 'what cottage? My sister's an outdoors instructor. She's good at this stuff and kindly loaded her car up with five kayaks so we could all go kayaking and we spent two happy mornings drifting about on lakes saying 'why am I going in a circle AGAIN? Between the mountains and the lakes we even had a little time to wander through the Gwydyr Forest:. Come on in&...
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Maytheweed's Place: June 2011
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Sunday, 26 June 2011. Has asked me to test knit her very first pattern! It's a gorgeous slouchy hat with very clever details. As it's a very pretty colour and beautifully soft. It's fluffier than I expected from the photos on the web but has a sheen which will show off Mara's carefully designed stitches nicely. My knitting mojo had fallen into the summer slump but the hat seems to have brought it back to life . Yay! Funky hat in chunky designed by my friend! Excuse to buy pretty yarn! Links to this post.
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Maytheweed's Place: True blue love?
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Tuesday, 12 April 2011. About a week and a half ago I had knitted my Blue Love jumper (my version of Cherie Amour. Up to the just below boob level and dutifully put it on some waste yarn and tried it on. Woe! It makes me look twice my normal width and utterly shapeless to boot. Waily waily waily! Sorry about all the crud on the mirror. that's a really poor pic but the other one's even worse. Anyway I'm feeling less blue about my Blue Love. It is definitely not bad! 14 April 2011 at 00:22. This blog is pr...
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Maytheweed's Place: May 2011
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Monday, 30 May 2011. Arthur got a new home . And I got a crafty nook! MrK and I have spent the day sorting out the junk and hoovering like mad (if dust is mostly skin cells it's a wonder we haven't disappeared). I commandeered the bookcase and dining table and after much rummaging some kind of order was brought to crafty chaos. Oh and I spent almost all of yesterday on my skirt which is going much better now, hurrah! Links to this post. Sunday, 29 May 2011. Arthur's Odd Facts #1. Links to this post.
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Maytheweed's Place: July 2011
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Wednesday, 27 July 2011. It's a rare and shy creature, previously thought mythical. A Lesser Purple Spangled Skirt. For an extremely simple skirt with two seams, two darts and a zip, it's been a bit of a challenge and I'm still not entirely happy with the fit at the waist but it looks nice with my blue blouse anyway so overall I'm pleased. I didn't bother because I intended to zig-zag all round the hem with decorative thread, but now it's done I think I like it best just the way it is. Links to this post.
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Maytheweed's Place: April 2011
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Friday, 29 April 2011. My package of 6 skeins of Noro Kureyon came a little while ago. I'm going to start the diagonally striped skirt Lanesplitter. And will make it short-ish as I like mini skirts, have pretty good legs and it's less knitting before I have it finished. I like to have at least two knitting projects on the go at once:. 1) Something requiring a bit of thought which makes me learn something new (currently my Blue Love jumper). If I finished before winter. Which. Links to this post. So a typ...
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Maytheweed's Place: March 2011
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Wednesday, 30 March 2011. This is one of my favourite suppers:. It's a savoury bread and butter pudding. This recipe makes enough for supper for me and MrK and we're greeeeedy. It would serve 3-4 with a side of some sort (baked potatoes maybe? I make it in a lasagne dish, any shallow dish would work. Yummy savoury bits (caramelised onions, fried bacon, mushrooms. whatever). 4 eggs and 1 extra just in case. A Ciabatta loaf or other tasty bread product, can be borderline stale. Links to this post. Yesterda...
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Maytheweed's Place: Works In Progress
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Thursday, 25 August 2011. I have multiple knitting projects on the go at the moment. Some are mere moments away from completion, were I a speedy, dedicated and skilled knitter. If only. Is about an hour from having the knitting done. An hour if I drink tea and chat and generally don't knit very much. Of course then there'll be elastic to wrangle. I've an idea for how to make it more flattering than knitting a casing up from the edge as the pattern calls for. Watch this space. Erm what indeed. I strug...
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Maytheweed's Place: Lanesplitter skirt
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Saturday, 1 October 2011. I've finally finished my lovely red Lanesplitter. I'm really pleased with it, although it makes my little belly stick out a bit. Meh. I've made a fairly significant modification in my addition of the wide elastic waistband. The pattern says that you should pick up stitches from the top edge and knit a casing for elastic. I hate elastic casings with a passion - they are so monumentally unflattering even in a thin woven fabric. In a hand knit? I then turned the skirt inside out an...
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