tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19493862937129727262024-03-05T11:34:08.819+00:00a year above the shopayearabovetheshophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11200883670392218802noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949386293712972726.post-18247063299232074942015-03-14T14:16:00.003+00:002015-03-16T14:19:58.538+00:00Magic Time<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Once again, the time lapse of wool and hook. Making when you don't have time to make.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I have been making things since we moved: painting, unpacking, framing, organising, but all a little bit here, a little bit there. It was only after making these I felt I could share them. There is something about the <i>wholeness</i> of a completed item of crochet that I love. A beginning, a middle and an end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The blue cowl (I see these called infinity scarves but, well I don't know about that) is spaced iris stitch. I have the pattern for this easy stitch in an old magazine, but I saw it <a href="http://www.craftsy.com/blog/2014/04/decorative-crochet-stitches/">here</a> when I searched. In a lovely blue merino blend with glittery thread running through it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The cat scarf I <i>love</i>. At least I love the end product, not the process. It was one of the most complex things I have made, possibly beaten only by the <a href="http://ayearabovetheshop.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/may-force-be-with-you.html">Yoda iPod cover I made for my nephew</a>. Must remember to stop seeing beautiful complicated many-pieced things on Ravelry and then buying them. Piece after piece after endless piece. I'm really not that kind of crocheter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But my little girl she loves cats, grey ones especially. There is something so funnily old-fashioned about this scarf, all the legs and the head flopping down like a fox draped around the shoulders of a old lady. Thinking about this made the lengthy making process bearable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Then there was the embroidery, the buttons, the ears...frankly if she doesn't wear it I will. I got the pattern <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/calico-cat-scarf-pattern">here</a> and it's great, really clear but don't say I didn't warn you. Oh, I made the tail a lot thinner than it says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I wrote about the magic, time-creating miracle of crochet a while ago <a href="http://ayearabovetheshop.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/autumn-leaves-baby-blanket.html">here</a> and hurray for it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Oh, and I started <a href="http://anneandthepenguins.blogspot.co.uk/">another blog</a> which is really sensible seeing as I can barely cope with my laundry but it turns out I really love to take photographs and write about them. This one's all about my mum and the little stories she makes with some tiny penguins. Works better visually.</span></div>
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ayearabovetheshophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11200883670392218802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949386293712972726.post-38843175512911491222014-10-13T13:14:00.002+01:002014-10-13T13:14:56.652+01:00bell jars<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But. I was sorting through some shelves, and found some boxes, and it was like slipping on an old favourite jacket. One I used to wear back when <a href="http://lucysteggals.co.uk/">Lucy</a> and I used to <a href="http://cupboardunderthestairs.com/">make this kind of thing</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A couple of bell jars had been sitting around on my workbench ever since I had been to <a href="http://inhabitat.com/time-circus-builds-a-floating-vegetable-garden-on-abandoned-ship-crane-in-the-netherlands/">this</a> amazing place in Antwerp this summer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And did this. In a corner of a room which is about to be packed up when we move in a few days. When I had so much other stuff to do. But you know, sod the to do list I say: sometimes you have to stop and put leaves chipped from plates into bell jars instead.</span><br />
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ayearabovetheshophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11200883670392218802noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949386293712972726.post-16879705312008625992014-09-14T22:08:00.001+01:002014-09-14T22:11:26.721+01:00on the last day of the holidays<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">2. Make some playdough (first ever solo trip to the shop to get the cream of tartar optional here). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">3. Press down and fill the shoebox with <a href="http://ayearabovetheshop.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/playdough.html">playdough</a>. Observe dyed-brown fingers. There may be some reminiscence about making playdough in days gone by. This is ok.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">4. Make some flower stems from tightly-rolled tissue paper. Draw some petals on felt and cut them out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">5. Choose a button. Negotiate with the button owner. Re-negotiate. Glue the button on to the petals with a gluestick. It falls off. Glue it back on with PVA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">5. Chat about school, about new beginnings. There are butterflies.</span><br />
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ayearabovetheshophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11200883670392218802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949386293712972726.post-77942682701269840242014-08-22T20:18:00.001+01:002014-09-01T21:19:11.798+01:00Shazbot and a giveaway<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">One of the best things for me - beating off stiff competition - about being at a music festival, is seeing all the different t-shirts people wear. Funny or serious, new bands, old or obscure ones, it's like the culture department of </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">people's brains walking towards you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Trending at Glastonbury this year were Breaking Bad t-shirts, especially this one: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And it got me thinking about drawing and how, mixed with a t-shirt, there's really no better way to say what you want to say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Someone doing this brilliantly at the moment is my friend <a href="http://www.simeonfarrar.com/">Simeon</a> with his <a href="http://www.blackscore.co.uk/">Black Score</a> t-shirt label. I'm lucky to own this beauty:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">My brother and I used to have a VHS tape of '<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2evBgJn1038">Robin Williams Live at the Met'</a> and we would watch it until we were crying and sore from laughing and the tape broke. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A three-year-old boy walking down the aisle with his mum, whilst his dad and his big brother wait at the other end. A deconsecrated chapel housing a very inclusive, very civil - in every sense of the word - do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: left;">I made dresses for my girls, using <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/59918658/the-bella-dress-pdf-pattern-size-6m-5t?ref=sr_gallery_34&ga_search_query=bella+sewing+pattern&ga_ship_to=GB&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery">the Bella dress pattern</a>. I added some elastic shirring at the waist and sleeves. For my older daughter, I used some fabric I had <a href="http://ayearabovetheshop.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-creative-art-of-embroidery.html">embroidered on a </a></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: left;"><a href="http://ayearabovetheshop.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-creative-art-of-embroidery.html">while back</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I made this top with my upcoming trip to Glastonbury (whoop whoop, first time after an eight year hiatus) in mind. I chose the fabric because it was full of things you might find there. I had a search around for simple sleeveless patterns and found this one bought from an Etsy seller:</span></div>
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ayearabovetheshophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11200883670392218802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949386293712972726.post-83199262115308355682014-05-28T16:21:00.003+01:002014-08-19T22:09:53.192+01:00You Can Call Me Owl<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I fell down some rabbit holes recently looking at crochet owls on <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=crochet%20owls">Pinterest</a>. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Who knew there were so many ways to crochet an owl? Not me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But the biggest achievement for me has been getting the hang of crocheting an owl in cable. There a lot of tutorials around for this, but they all defeated me. I finally found one that was (almost) easy to follow <a href="http://crocheteverafter.com/tutorials/free-pattern-workshops/cabled-owl-washcloth-workshop/">here</a>. It took a practice run but I got it. I was too impatient to watch the video, just followed the pattern for the owl.</span><br />
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ayearabovetheshophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11200883670392218802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949386293712972726.post-54337930931267888182014-04-28T14:08:00.000+01:002014-08-19T22:12:53.435+01:00Sensible cords<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I made these cords for my little fella Nat. Deep red with an elasticated waist and leg cuffs, I bet they feel amazing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I got the pattern from the wonderful <a href="http://minikrea.dk/">Minikrea</a> brand that I wrote about <a href="http://ayearabovetheshop.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/scooter-girl.html">here</a>. I did the simple view and appliqued on some kneepads because this kid's knees are seeing some heavy work at the moment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Spanish names for colours are very beautiful. Amarillo cromo. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here are two and they both feature Yoda. I feel like Yoda has been a counterpoint to my life, and I'm sure to yours too. My cousin had a little toy hand puppet Yoda and he liked to chew his ears as he fell asleep. He's a professor now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Also belonging to my cousin was a black guinea pig called Yoda. My brother did (and still does) very good Yoda impressions. None of this is surprising from these children of the 70s and 80s, but now I see Yoda love in the next generation. I think this is all A Good Thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have a 12 year old nephew and am never sure about crafting for him. Is it any way cool? I know I think so, but not sure how he feels. So, I ploughed on regardless and made him this <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/star-wars---yoda---iphone-5-crochet-case-cozy-sleeve-cover-pdf-pattern">Yoda iPhone cover</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was not so much complicated as lengthy: once you had finally finished the duffel coat there were the ears, and then the hood and then the eyes, and then... who knew such a little guy took so long?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then, I made this hat for my godson, another mini Jedi. I took the pattern again <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/yoda-hat-4">from Ravelry</a> and it went like a dream. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here is the hat modelled by one of my own. In the end I made a stuffed pair of ears out of felt (I had some in a matching green) and sewed them on by hand, thus anchoring the crocheted ears.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Happily, my little godson is too young to be troubled by thoughts of whether a crocheted Yoda hat made by his godmother is cool or not, he just lives for the moment and wears his hat with the joy of a 4 year old. Very Jedi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finally, huge thanks to Kate, author of <a href="http://yourhomeislovely.blogspot.co.uk/">one of my favourite blogs</a> for a very kind (and undeserved since it's so shamefully long since I posted) shout out. Kate, thanks for kicking me up the behind. And thanks for writing such a beautiful and inspiring blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I may have mentioned that I find dressmaking a bit of a teeth-gritting battle. But if the pattern is simple and quick I love it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Danish pattern company <a href="http://www.minikrea.dk/">Minikrea</a> has been a great discovery for me. I found out about them at <a href="http://www.raystitch.co.uk/">Raystitch</a>. I am so lucky to live a bus ride away from this beautiful shop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: left;">So much that is interesting and beautiful comes out of Denmark doesn't it? <a href="http://www.anechristensen.com/index.html">My friend Ane </a>for one. The pattern was very simple, just two pieces sewn together. My kind of dressmaking. I've bought the trouser pattern too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Every time she wears it she gets compliments. But every time she wears it, being three, she screams and protests. Sometimes I wonder why I bother.</span><br />
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ayearabovetheshophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11200883670392218802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949386293712972726.post-15990053574469540692013-08-13T13:45:00.000+01:002013-08-13T13:45:01.978+01:00ask a busy woman<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The two girls went to stay with my parents for a night last week. And lo, the stars aligned and the baby slept for nearly three hours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So I did this to a wall in the kitchen:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After: none more black</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">These little handles had been sat staring at me for the best part of a year since I bought them in a flea market. They make me feel (marginally) better about the oversized filing cabinets that are our wardrobes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then, clearly on some kind of craft Stakhanovite high, I did a little sprucing up of some corners of my home. In o</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ur bedroom </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I put up a mobile for the baby and rearranged a mix of my old work, my Granddad's</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> painting and a flea market buy:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I also added to this wall that I have previously featured </span><a href="http://ayearabovetheshop.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/corners-of-my-home.html" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The print is from a collage by <a href="http://cutitout.co.uk/">Martin O'Neill</a>, the poster from the <a href="http://www.ltmuseumshop.co.uk/">London Transport museum shop</a>, the rest are handmade, heirlooms or charity shop booty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And I thought, all the while, of the wise words of Caitlin Moran:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Give a new mother a sleeping child for an hour...and 'multi-tasking' does not come near to the quantum productivity of someone putting in an online grocery order, writing a report, cooking the tea, counselling a weeping friend on the phone, mending a broken hoover - all within the space of a 3 pm nap. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And that is about it. <i>Sigh</i>. Maybe it's ok. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ah the English climate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As I write: a cool, sticky day. The sky a greyish shade of rainy sports day. What to wear? Not too hot, not too cold. Layers layers layers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Why, a tank top of course!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A couple of years ago I taught myself to read Japanese crochet symbols and made <a href="http://ayearabovetheshop.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/japanese-for-beginners.html">this tank top in Alpaca wool</a> for my older daughter Eva. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Reader, I am sorry to report that that top is no more. Unless you are a doll. Yes, it was put on a hot wash. And not by me. I will say no more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The thing is, it was a really quick pattern, and had enough going on not to get too boring. So, I made it again in a kind of deep space blue with intergalactic silver threads I bought in the sales:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The wool was a lovely merino wool mix also bought in the sales. I found t</span><a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/jitses-vest-english-version" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">his pattern</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> on Ravelry to base the shape on. Such a great pattern for a cardigan on there: you just start with the circumference of a neck then do a simple formula to work out the rest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's the same author as <a href="http://ayearabovetheshop.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/cables.html">this cardigan,</a> with my own amendments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My <a href="http://ayearabovetheshop.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/matroyshka-skirt.html">amazing aunt </a>found me an old <a href="http://www.clothkits.co.uk/">Cloth Kits</a> pinafore dress kit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I taught myself how to crochet cables recently. I didn't even know you could do such a thing until I came across <a href="http://pinterest.com/mathildiabrown/crochet-cables/">this wonderful board </a>on Pinterest. So I looked in books and online and found <a href="http://crochetvolution.com/archives/fall-2011-archives/crochet-cables-oh-yes-i-can">this tutorial </a>to be the most helpful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I made it up as I went along so there were a few false starts, but it went well and kept me warm during the Eternal Winter of '13. I then made a cardigan for my daughter Rosa. I used <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/baby-vest-in-3-sizes">this pattern</a> from Ravelry. It was so good to make, all in one piece with raglan sleeves. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I adapted it quite a bit as the original had no cables and a colour block-y pattern happening at the bottom edge. The wool was Rowan <i>Cashsoft</i> bought in the January sales so it was a bargain too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rosa is at that age where clothes become a way of expressing herself. Which is a diplomatic way of saying she screams for a long time and very loudly indeed if I try and make her wear something she does not want to. Such as crocheted cardigans. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But she is also open to bribery with chocolate. A great life skill I have tried to instill as early as possible. </span><br />
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ayearabovetheshophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11200883670392218802noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949386293712972726.post-38941289649436136662013-04-24T17:02:00.003+01:002013-04-24T22:09:54.645+01:00Rabbit Girl<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.ruthincraftcentre.org.uk/">Ruthin Craft Centre </a>in Denbighshire, North Wales is one of my favourite places. Set in the vale of Clywd, there is always some interesting work and you can see the beautiful Clywdian range from the gallery. Plus, they have a great cafe. I first came across the work of Julie Arkell there some years ago. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What, or who were these bewitching creatures? They were half-rabbit and half-girl, or perhaps half-horse and half-cardboard box. To me, they were folkloric and childlike, but also a tiny bit sinister. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I could see old newspaper, handknits, fabric scraps, treasures from the shelves of a serious collector of <i>things</i>. I have always been a fan of serious collectors of things, so I bought her book and learned more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Best of all she taught courses where you could make your own creature. But as it does, life took over and I did not go on any courses run by Julie Arkell. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then, last December the stars aligned with the winning combination of Christmas present, offer of childcare, imminent maternity leave and a need for creative well-filling. What a great combination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And so it was that I went to a very fancy wool shop - </span><a href="http://www.loopknitting.com/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Loop</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, in Islington, north London - to do a course with Julie Arkell. Above are the scraps - some mine and some supplied by Julie - I used.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I like to think she has a French provincial feel about her. She works as a waitress in a cafe in a tiny village. The cafe has sun-scorched little floral curtains. She has just taken off her faded apron to lean against the doorway for a Gauloise break. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have updated <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/people/Miriam74">my Ravelry page</a> so it's all up there, I am happy to email the pattern if anyone wants to try it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And you step back in time, to a world where Woolworths still exists. Ah, I miss that shop so much.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So <i>authentically </i>Mexican.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Best of all, you can get ideas. I am not sure I would want Mr Year to wear this jerkin - though if he did it would be pretty cool - but the stitch could look nice as something else.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Like a...tie. A tie like this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was made from some Scandinavian organic wool. So I suppose this technically makes it a tiny scarf. Also, what makes the wool organic I wonder? It was a simple scallop stitch, really rhythmic and enjoyable, although like all long thin projects it did start to get a little boring towards the end. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But I like it. So does he, at least he seems to be enjoying it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">1. Hairbands. Made from an old H&M blouse and some Liberty tana lawn from the stash. A nice excuse to fire up my </span><a href="http://ayearabovetheshop.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/popping-and-locking-giveaway.html" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">overlocker</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">. I traced the shape from an existing hairband, cut two pieces and used some thicker material to line the middle. At the same time the audiobook of Alice in Wonderland has been on heavy rotation round the house. Alan Bennett's voice is a thing of rare beauty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. A work-in-progress blocking on the ironing board. Quite excited about this one. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Blocking is the very satisfying moment at the end of a crochet project, when the crumpled up bit of wool fabric becomes fluid and smooth. I used to do a complicated move involving a towel and a large cutting mat to create a blocking board. Then I realised that the ironing board did the trick brilliantly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3. A jellyfish made of rick rack, felt and some buttons. Her (of course she is a her) name is Jellina. I think it suits her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">It was all the big girl's idea. She raised a small fortune thanks to a winning combination of very loud sales patter - thereby making her impossible to ignore - and cuteness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The embroidered fish piece in <a href="http://ayearabovetheshop.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-creative-art-of-embroidery.html">the last post</a> made me think how nice it would look as a square in a quilt. At the same time, a good selection of yellow-y fabrics began, as if by magic, to build in my stash. Like, all by themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A trip to Whitstable last summer led to a bit of this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Which in turn led to a very satisfying and definitely best-done-in-private bit of this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">...And before I knew it I had enough for a cot quilt. I always look to <a href="http://rosylittlethings.typepad.com/posie_gets_cozy/">Alicia Paulson</a> for spiritual guidance when planning a quilt, and followed the technique she used in her <a href="http://posie-rosy-little-things.myshopify.com/collections/sewing-patterns/products/ollalieberry-ice-cream-quilt-pattern">Ollalieberry quilt</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I went for fabrics that had a bit of a narrative, like this lovely <a href="http://heatherross.squarespace.com/fabrics/">Heather Ross</a> 'Princess and the Pea' (below) from her Far Far Away range. And the Hansel and Gretel fabric. Not sure what the story is with the Mexican dudes but I'd sure like to know it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's been a while, much has happened. I have journeyed far and near through art education, teacher training, job applying and matters very real world, taxing and big. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am now a qualified teacher in charge of steering the nation's youth on the righteous path of art and photography. A sobering thought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Through all of this I did not stop making, this is one strong and primal urge. As if I didn't know. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Projects have got a little smaller; they fit in with me rather than vice versa. Can I pick it up after a few weeks neglecting it? Does it fit in my bag? Can I do it during the hour and a half my daughter sleeps during my day off? If the answer to those questions is yes, then I'm in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Meanwhile, here's a photo of a poncho I made for a </span><a href="http://ayearabovetheshop.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/if-carl-cox-made-pyjamas-for-his-dolly.html" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">doll</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">. She </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">usually has a nice red dress on but a toy cat stole it. You know how cats can be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I promise they won't all be like this. Pattern from the </span><a href="http://www.ladybird.co.uk/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Ladybird</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> of Crochet.</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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