Blog entries tagged Brown

Covered

Shelley — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:50:02 +0100

New covers for some nude cushions in our living room. I am in love with laundered quilting right now. All that squashy wrinkled fabric between rows of neat stitches just makes me feel cozy. I didn't want my covers to shrink later on so I actually washed these before sewing the quilted pieces together to make the covers (I ran a zig-zag stitch around the raw edges to cut down on the amou...

The Hemlock Ring

Shelley — Tue, 19 May 2009 02:47:59 +0100

Pattern: Hemlock Ring Blanket adapted by Jared Flood
Yarn: Patons Classic Wool
Size: As written
Yardage: 2.5 skeins
Needles: 4.00 mm
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I'm very glad to finally be done this project. I really enjoyed working on it - it's a perfect balance of mindless and pattern knitting - but with my currently limited knitting time it just took too long. I wante...

The Last Repeat

Shelley — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:13:51 +0100

I am, I hope, on the very last pattern repeat for my Hemlock Ring blanket. This project seems to have been taking forever but that's just because my knitting time is a little curtailed at the moment - Abby and yarn do not mix well. It hasn't been very well documented on here because, well, it basically looks the same as it did in does in the first picture but bigger and slightly lum...

Whiskey

Shelley — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:37:31 +0100

I got some fun mail on Friday. A box arrived from Lettuce Knit in Toronto full of beautiful yarn. It's Cascade 220 Heather in Whiskey (8013) and it is going to become a Cobblestone sweater for Rob. It is unbelievably soft (softer than the solids even) and a beautiful changeable grey-brown colour that should show off nicely in the texture of a garter stitch. I've been wanting to make...

Accidental Apron

Shelley — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:48:36 +0100

I taught an apron sewing class today. Our class was pretty small but that made it good practice for me; I'm still pretty nervous every time I teach. This is the apron I made as I was teaching. It is also my entry for the next Tie One On.

The theme is "spend no money" and aprons are due at the end of April. I had read that earlier this week and thought "I should...

Piecing the Curve

Shelley — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:27:41 +0100

Curved seams intimidate me. Not because I haven't sewn plenty of them - they show up frequently in garment sewing (especially Jane Austen dresses) - but because I've never really been sure I was doing them correctly. They just feel like the sort of thing where there must be a trick that makes them easy to do but no one ever taught me. I love the look of curves in quilti...

Unrelated Image

Shelley — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:20:49 +0100

Christmas crafting doesn't make for very good blog material (I don't want to ruin any surprises) so here is a picture of our puppy.

As far as the crafting goes I'm working through my list of homemade gifts and have even finished a few. Every time I finish something it gives me a little burst of confidence and I start right into the next thing with extra vigour. Thi...

It was snowing

Shelley — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:08:13 +0100

We went for a walk on Sunday morning. It started snowing just as we left the house and as we walked around the lake we could see it gathering in places and drifting around on the ice that covered all the still water (moving water was still open and sounds particularly cool when everything else is frozen). We got hot noodle soup downtown before heading home again. When we got home I cast on for a knitted blanket.

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<h1>Nice</h1>
<p>Shelley — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:55:00 +0100</p>
Can you have a nice horrid day? Today feels like it.<br /><br />We haven't seen the sun all day and I don't think anything outside has been dry since yesterday but everything smells so fresh and earthy. There is no wind and the rain is more like a lazy mist that you run into. It is just cool enough to make you walk briskly and wear a cute hat.<br /><br />Work was uneventful but the ...
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<h1>Something Else</h1>
<p>Shelley — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:26:47 +0100</p>
Before:<br /><br /><br />After:<br /><br /><br /><br />This is another project from Last Minute Patchwork and Quilted Gifts. The needle book but with a couple of variations becaus...
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<h1>A Day in the Park</h1>
<p>Shelley — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:43:38 +0100</p>
I don't know what it is about this heat but it makes me really want to sew. I spent Friday night and half of Saturday working on this bag. It's the Day in the Park Backpack Tote by Liesl Gibson (look for it on the left in the sidebar of her blog). I got the pattern and hardware kit last summer through Purl Soho but only recently collected the rest of the stuff I needed to make it. T...
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<h1>That was quick!</h1>
<p>Shelley — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:23:59 +0100</p>
<p>I spent some time trying to make sense of the piles of things in my studio today (and hoping I'd come across the sundress pattern I know is here somewhere). I was making good progress (the books are now on a shelf) but just as I was walking out to take a short break a bag of roving caught my eye. I grabed it and my ladybug and sat in the family room to spin for a bit.</p><img src=

Zara

Shelley — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:30:53 +0100

Pattern: Zara from The Bigger Picture by Rowan
Yarn: Rowan Big Wool
Size: 34 inch
Yardage: 5 skeins
Needles: 8 mm and 12 mm wooden straights

This yarn is so cozy. The big needles can be a bit cumbersome but the yarn is so fat and squashy it totally makes up for it. This pattern was easy to follow and quick to do. The seaming up takes a bit of time but I think ...

How Quickly Do You Think I Can Knit?

Shelley — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:03:08 +0100

I'm making Zara from The Bigger Picture by Rowan. I've had everything to make this sweater since last summer. This project uses the same yarn (different colour) and needles as Rob's sweater , which was finished just in time for his birthday. I thought it would be fun if my sweater was finished in time for my birthday too.

I could have started it in November after I&#...

The Middle R

Shelley — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:46:44 +0100

Reusing seems to be the easiest of the "Three R's" but the least advocated. When was the last time the City suggested you donate your old clothes or make new pyjamas out of an old sheet or save your yoghurt containers? Fortunately thrifting is pretty popular anyway. I was over at my sister's on Friday and she sent me home with a few things that she no longer wea...

A Winter Purse

Shelley — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:48:05 +0100

I should have been working on my Sassy Apron Swap apron last night ... or folding the laundry ... or emptying the dishwasher ... but instead I was making a handbag. The Charming Handbag from Bend-The-Rules Sewing to be specific. I thought it was cute the first time I saw it and it only got cuter when I saw all the wonderful versions people have made up.

This is my new d...

Random Image #2

Shelley — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:03:27 +0100

I had made up Calorimetry, from Knitty Winter 2006, with my last skein of the Possum Worsted but it was a little too big for my head. I finally got around to frogging it the other day. Now it's just waiting for me to start gain.

Weekend Tidbits

Shelley — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:00:14 +0100

...or "All the things I was going to blog about but didn't get to and then the power went out."

The highlight of my weekend was certainly Erin lending me a spinning wheel. It's the Ashford Traditional and is great fun to play with. It takes a bit more co-ordination than my hand spindles but I can spin a lot more stuff. This is especially exciting since I was think...

Zeke's Bed

Shelley — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:36:52 +0100

Pattern: A rough interpretation of circular shawl knitting (from Knitting Rules ) and a vague understanding of how to make a cat bed.
Yarn: Noro Kureyon colour #164
Yardage: 3 skeins
Needles: 6,00 mm dpn's and circular

This is Zeke's Christmas present, finally finished and ready for him to snooze on. The knitting was nice and uncomplicated and I...

Matchy matchy

Shelley — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:27:42 +0100

After taking pictures of my apron yesterday I just wore it all day. It's so handy to have a pocket right where you need it and just great to never worry about spilling anything on yourself because you're already wearing an apron. It made me feel kind of industrious and domestic too - like I was going to be getting things done (like posting a whole bunch of bac...