This is Folkwear 117, the Croatian Shirt.
I bought the pattern intending to make it in the dress length, but I didn’t have anything like enough of this cotton lawn, so I made a rather short shirt instead. I started this project about eight months ago, and then it was put to one side while I [...]
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I bought this handsome little fellow in Harrogate, at Duttons for Buttons.
I haven’t quite thought of the perfect use for a single ceramic button in the shape of a blackbird, but he’s so pretty I’m sure I’ll come up with something.
Fruit Salad
Posted in inspiration, knitting on Aug 22nd, 2008
I fell in love with this wool back in December. John Lewis were having a clearance sale, and I was tempted into buying a whole jumper’s worth.
The yarn is Debbie Bliss Soho, in colourway 16. I wouldn’t normally go for yellows and oranges, but the colours reminded me so much of those little Fruit Salad chews [...]