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Lothlorien
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I was reminded of a similar thread while replying to a new Shipmate. The old thread seems to have sunk beyond finding, so here is a new one.
All things crafty, so thread the needles, get the machines out, wind the yarn, whatever.
If the arthritis in my right hand lets me knit, I am planning a shrug in organic cotton for someone who did me a massive favour before Christmas and sorted mess made by the postal courier who just happened to drop off a purchase at a destination miles from address on parcel. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Firenze
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I must resume the Lacoon-like struggles with new curtains for the bedroom.
But first, a subject for a batch of yarn I got before Christmas. I had thought a wrap in crocheted entrelac - but having done a few inches, it's Just Not Working. But I now have a ball of yarn made up, in a colourway running from navy through dark blue, grey (hmm, not sure about the grey) to pale blue and pinks to white.
I think the tonal range is maybe a problem. I like the randomised effect, but not the way the entrelac was delivering it. Maybe back to a variant of granny squares.
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Drifting Star
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This year I am intending to finish lots of half done projects, including the entirely hand stitched quilt that I started when I was 19.
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Just before Christmas a friend told me that she was expecting a baby so I am making a cot sized quilt for a gift, paper pieces patchwork in reds and whites, mainly westfalenstoffe fabrics with a few others that fit in nicely. It will comprise twelve squares, each with a different design, joined with plain red strips. I cleared most of my dressmaking before Christmas but have some lovely navy and white fabric to make a dress for the spring, once I decide on a pattern.
My son rediscovered knotting over Christmas and is finding it very therapeutic, and also addictive, he is knitting a throw for his sofa in garter stitch squares. on New years day he ran out of wool so we had to find a shop that sold it, thankfully Hobby Craft was open so he stocked up. He phoned yesterday to ask when I would be next visiting as he has dropped a stitch and cannot work out how to fix it. That strip has now been put to one site awaiting my attention and a new strip has been started.
My mother suffers from arthritis and finds knitting difficult, as she misses it I have been investigating what needles may help. She has only ever used metal needles and refuses to try the Casein needles as they remind her of plastic so I have ordered some Synfonie wooden needles for her to try
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cattyish
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I have finally taken out the lace making kit my lovely brother and sister-in-law gave me for Christmas two or three years ago and am really enjoying it. The kit came with plastic bobbins which I had to spangle but which were not so nice to handle as the second-hand wooden ones I have now bought.
Cattyish, contemplating lace making pillows.
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Waxed canvas. Anyone done anything like that?
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luvanddaisies
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I'm not very arty or crafty, but I like rigging and knots, and I started dabbling in decorative stuff. I've not done a lot, but I've done some, using paracord.
Any other paracorders here?
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St Everild
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I have a whole pile of half-started projects...this year, I would like to finish a tablecloth which my mum gave me. It is white and gold on white, and is a Christmas tablecloth.
Mum offered to finish it for me, once, about 10 years after she had given it to me, but as my Mum died in 2011 that is never going to happen, and I would like to finish it as she gave it to me, if that doesn't sound too daft....
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Penny S
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I have been moved by this thread to pick up my orange Lands End trousers which I had started to alter. For some reason, they had been constructed with large hips and thighs, but a very small waist, and I had finally had to concede that I couldn't do them up. I had removed the waistband and undone a couple of pleats, and then stopped. This afternoon, I have added a petersham band and a button tab by machine, and now have to do handwork to tidy up. Broke a needle with the thick seams...
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luvanddaisies
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When I was repairing sails, on the really thick bits or on leather I'd pre-make the holes, with an awl, or with a hammer and a nail. Would a little tack-hammer and tacks work for your thick seams? (Or is that not done in sewing? I'm not much good at domestic sewing.)
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Penny S
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I'm going to catch the folded over layer around the top down with some hem stitching that doesn't need to go through all the layers - should work. I always wear tops which cover the waist of my trousers (forgot to mention these are thick wale cords) so it doesn't matter if it doesn't look couture.
Wouldn't I need a leather palm for sailmakers' techniques?
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Hail Mary
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Ooh, so many artful crafters!
Making lace and waxing canvas: please post some photos. This sounds amazing and beautiful, and difficult.
As for me, I started an Etsy shop a couple of years ago, and promised myself that after New Year's I'd stop knitting cats, for a while, anyway.
I have a couple of projects lined up of non-cat-knitting, and will probably start with Shleeves.
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Drifting Star
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Hail Mary - those cats are gorgeous! So much character in every little face. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
I did some lacemaking a good few years ago and loved it - but it took a great deal of concentration and I haven't found the time more recently.
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St. Gwladys
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by cattyish
Cattyish, contemplating lace making pillows. [QUOTE]
Cattyish, try making your own straw filled pillow. ItS hard work and a bit messy as you have to cut the straw up and it gets everywhere, but thumping the pillow with a heavy rolling pin to get it firm before stuffing more straw in - then repeating the process - is a great way of releasing pent up irritations!
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Brenda Clough
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For knitting fixes, the number of YouTube videos is nearly endless. Google on it and find one that will show him how to pick up a dropped stitch -- it is not difficult.
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Lothlorien
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Kitten, as one who has bad arthritis which is now in fingers, I would say that the casein are wonderful. Buy a different colour to most plastic if mum does not like plastic. Nor do I like it. The tortoise shell coloured casein may be fine for her. It definitely looks different to plastic. I can often get them in op shops run by charities.
Wooden are rather nice too. and I like my now aging Knitpicks harmony which were imported down here by a coupe of places. Knitpicks refuses to post to downunder. I like their wooden double pointed for socks and also like Brittany bamboo dpns.
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Penny S
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Chemical pedant here. Casein, when used for knitting needles, is a plastic. It is, in fact, one of the very earliest plastics discovered. As I recall, it involved making cheese, moulding it, treating the result with formalin and heating it under compression. I made some when at college. It does, however, have different properties from other plastics which will make its handle better for knitting with.
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Penny S
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In which case, what do you mean by plastic? Those soft, bendy needles? They are just a particular variety of the stuff. Probably thermoplastic, which would melt if you put them on the cooker hob. Casein is thermosetting, which means that once it has been heated, it keeps its shape and doesn't melt at low temperatures. I've some very early plastic needles which are rigid, with a tortoiseshell effect. No idea which plastic they are - to test would require me to set fire to a bit of them, which I don't intend to do.
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Kitten
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I have used Casein myself and found them pleasant, my late father used to use them. Unfortunately, my mother tends to get fixed ideas about things and having decided in her mind that they are plasticy she will not even try them, but a tortoishell affect is a good idea, as long as I don't tell her they are Casein, I may try that if she doesn't get on with the Symfonie
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Penny S
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What about sneakily doing a bit yourself with them, then asking her to help you with a tricky part, so that she uses them unwittingly?
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Lothlorien
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Penny, by plastic I meant the rigid needles with absolutely no give in them.
I seem to use circulars almost all the time now, even for flat knitting. So they are often the laminated wood tupe. I can use Addi clicks no problem although they are metal. I think the shorter length helps there.
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Penny S
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I use circulars as well. I started when I wanted to miss out on the way that side seams broke up the development of pattern in varigated yarns. But most of my circulars are metal - some of the larger ones are bamboo.
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Firenze
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Right. I've decided on a patchwork. The rule is this: make up your ball of yarn in varying lengths of your several colours. Start working a block in single crochet. When the first colour runs out, turn and start working down one side. At the end of that colour again change direction. You need to know the trick of tying in so that you can work up the side of existing crochet as well as across the top. Hours of fun.
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Mrs Shrew
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Firenze that sounds wonderful!
One of my two resolutions for 2016 is to end the year with fewer unfinished projects than I started it with.
To that end, I will be doing a lot of finishing off knitting and cross stitch things.
First up, the dreaded 21st birthday jumping, which I may have mentioned before. There are now less than 20 days until the future owner of the jumper turns 30, and I am trying very hard to get it done. The trouble is that the pattern got lost, so I'm reading the lace and shaping pattern for the front off the back, and the back is full of mistakes.
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Lothlorien
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Mrs Shrew,
Do you know if the lace pattern was old enough or established enough to have a name. I am thinking of feather and fan, (old shale) or King Charles? Ifyoucould remember a name you might find it in a stitch dictionary or even perhaps online.
I havea coyple of stitch dictionaries but public libraries may have them too.
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Mrs Shrew
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Hi Lothlorien, unfortunately it is more of a small motif than an all over pattern. It looks like a large diamond made up of four little diamonds, sitting just below the v of the v neck.
It's simple stuff really but I'm not good at visualising things, so when I try to work out how to correct the errors I tend to tie my brain up in knots. Unfortunately, the original pattern had a cat sick incident some years back.
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Lothlorien
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I am more verbal than visual but can see a similar pattern in my mind. Hope it all works out and I will have a look.
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Mrs Shrew
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Oooh yes! And I have a spare ball of yarn with me. I shall let you know how it goes. Thank you so much!
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Penny S
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I'm wearing the trousers, now very comfortable, and regretting having sent the similar pair of cream coloured ones to Oxfam before I thought of how to upgrade them!
Next, returning to altering a top I bought at Oxfam, which I liked very much apart from the black band around the hem, clearly designed to get the response yes to the query "does my bum look big in this?" I'm sewing a toning colour over the black, but it's a very long hem as it is cut on diagonals and about four times as long as a normal hem.
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I started making my costume for EasterCon today - it's the annual UK SF convention, held this year in Manchester. I've made two long bands to go over my shoulders, stiffened with that lining stuff that you iron on, as part of a Jedi Librarian outfit.
I already had the top and skirt among my normal clothes - so all I have to do is make the bands and a wide belt, and I'm good to go!
And it will be comfortable for walking around and sitting in discussion panels all day.
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Brenda Clough
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When my son was in his teens I sewed a complete Jedi outfit for him -- tunic, long voluminous brown cloak, tabard, cummerbund. Cunningly, I waited until he was my height. Now he has moved on from Star Wars and I can wear it.
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quote:
Originally posted by luvanddaisies:
When I was repairing sails, on the really thick bits or on leather I'd pre-make the holes, with an awl, or with a hammer and a nail. Would a little tack-hammer and tacks work for your thick seams? (Or is that not done in sewing? I'm not much good at domestic sewing.)
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Originally posted by luvanddaisies:
I'm not very arty or crafty, but I like rigging and knots, and I started dabbling in decorative stuff. I've not done a lot, but I've done some, using paracord.
Any other paracorders here?
I ordered a fid, some whipping twine and made two halyards over the Xmas period, using braided rope. Thus 2 eye spices and then on the rope ends, backsplices. I have done many splices in 3 strand rope but this was my first on what we used to call kern-mantle rope. I have a small sailboat.
I am a knotting nut. I haven't done a lot of real decorative stuff, though made some turks heads, monkey fists, and mathew walker type knots.
Coincidently to reading your post, I got 100 feet of paracord in the mail yesterday. 1/8". Was considering making a belt. But haven't even started to consider how to start.
I have Clifford Ashley's (1944), The Ashley Book of Knots, which I got used. It has some 6000+ knots with pictures and commentary, but not much re belts.
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Lothlorien
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Originally posted by Mrs Shrew:
Oooh yes! And I have a spare ball of yarn with me. I shall let you know how it goes. Thank you so much!
Glad to be able to help. I am not knitting at the moment but hope to get back to it soon. My right hand is very sore from arthritis. I have used knitting for a long time as therapy as well as for enjoyment. Right now, I cannot straigten the fingers and put them flat on a surface. Fingers are curved instead of flat and most of the knuckles are sore.
I am thinking wistfully of lacy shawls and also of socks.
I may try more children's hats. The oncology department at Children's Hospital always needs more hats. When Miss M , my granddaughter was there with leukaemis I made many hats.
They are easy and quick and may help my need to knit.
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The Symfonie needles have arrived and my mother expresses herself pleased with the feel of them, she hasn't started to use them yet as she is trying to find a specific pattern that she wants to do.
Just in case I have mentioned that if she doesn't get on with them I have heard of a tortoiseshell type needle that may be good for arthritis sufferers
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Mrs Shrew
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Pleased to hear the knitting needles may be going down well, Kitten.
I have completed the knitting on the jumper. The newly finished piece is slightly smaller than the original pieces, I think due to tighter tension.
I'm going to block the pieces in the hope it will make it all match nicely.
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Lothlorien
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Tension makes a big difference to size. Last Winter Olympics I was watching figure skating on TV. Knitting socks. I watched while skaters spun around to very fast music. Then I compared my knitting with first sock. It was noticeably smaller as I had been knitting quickly to the music as I watched. It looked odd, but still fit me so I left it as it was.
I picked up the needles last night. Did about twenty centimetres on the sleeve of a shrug and my fingers say nothing bad to me this morning. That is the first knitting for months. The yarn is a mix of hemp and cotton and shrug is done in two pieces. Up one sleeve, (theoretically done on circulars), halfway across back and a second piece is identical and joined. I did not have 6 mm double pointed needles and the only cord I had was longish so I have done sleeve flat and will seam it. Feather and fan stitch goes up the sleeve and also across the bottom of the back. Yarn is pleasant to use but a bit splitty. I knit loosely, so have gone down to 5.5 mm in size. Looks OK so far but will definitely benefit from blocking.
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Brenda Clough
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I was knitting a pullover for a friend in September, 2001. Like a fool I sat down with the knitting to watch the coverage of the 91-11 attacaks. You can see it in the sweater -- all of a sudden about midway along it's tighter.
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Celtic Knotweed
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I think that some of this year has to be finishing off projects! I've nearly finished knitting a pair of gloves I started in the autumn (they got interrupted by 2 lace scarves for Christmas pressies). Unfortunately for my spring plans, I bought a pattern for a cricket sweater for Sandemaniac in December. This means that first I need to do some test pieces with cables (never done any cable work yet), then I need to buy the yarn and knit the sweater... Suppose he might get it in time for the 2017 season. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
Then I can get on to some of the unstarted knitting ideas; or the tapestry work that went onto the frame about 11 months ago; or the couple of major sewing projects where I have fabric and idea but need pattern/time; oh, and I bought more yarn this morning to do Sandemaniac a new pair of gloves (for next winter, methinks!).
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Liopleurodon
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Mrs Shrew - was it this one? you might be able to contact someone and buy the pattern from them.
I'm working on a couple of things at the moment. Main knitting project is the Lattes and Llamas 2014 Geekalong blanket. Except that some of the fandoms featured don't really interest me and I have others that aren't included so I'm designing a bunch of my own squares. And I'm not doing double-sided knitting because life's too short. I'm going to back it with fleece when it's done. I've always hated doing colourwork until recently: it just seems to have finally clicked for me.
Sewing-wise I've recently discovered that one of the cheapest ways to buy pure silk fabric is to get pieces that have been salvaged from vintage Japanese kimonos. They're narrow (all seem to be about 14" across) but I've stitched together eight pieces to make a half circle skirt and it's gorgeous. I'm slightly in awe of the fabric really, as each piece is very much a work of art in its own right, and I hope it's not appropriative to use them in this way. Really I just want to give this gorgeous fabric a chance to shine again now that the original kimono is worn out.
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Mrs Shrew
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The jumper is finally finished! Washing and blocking fixed all the tension problems, and I have machine dyed it to a gorgeous blue colour.
It will be given tonight - really hope it is liked ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Brenda Clough
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Say more, Lio. Where does one get these fascinating=sounding remnants?
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Liopleurodon
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I buy mine from ebay. I won't send you to the seller I use because I believe you're in the US -? and I'm in the UK, so there's probably someone closer to you selling them, but try searching for "kimono silk" and see what you get.
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Mrs Shrew
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I'm loving the idea of the geek along blanket. No new projects until I finish some more, though!
What on earth is double sided knitting?
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Hail Mary
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This video shows double-sided knitting. It's not for the faint of heart, but can be used to make some very lovely things.
In other news, I've made my first bunny. I'm wondering if I should stick with the cats, or if bunnies are just as viable in the world of knitted toys.
The bunny in question.
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Lothlorien
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I have seen the double sided knitting. I knit for relaxation etc and think that would require more concentration than I often have. Lace knitting is fine, even complicated lace, but not that. However, if I can do one, I guess I could do the other.
The bunny is cute.
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Brenda Clough
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Super, thanks.
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Sarasa
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I lke the bunny. My son's favourite soft toy as a child was a knitted bunny my mum brought at a Women's Institute sale.
I'm about to embark on making a knitted patchwork blanket. I thought it was the sort of project that would keep me going for a while.
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Lothlorien
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Unless you want to lay squares out to work out placement and colours, joining as you go could be a good idea. I was once given over a hundred crocheted squares.
After sewing them together over several days, my right hand was very sore and cramped every time I tried to cut my food etc.
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