tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27800069975496772732024-03-14T05:08:28.792+11:00Plain Jane CreationsFor the lovers of all things textile, especially knitting, felting, patchwork, sewing and embroidery. A bit of family life thrown in too.......enjoy!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03229403335314406390noreply@blogger.comBlogger760125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2780006997549677273.post-40624381231346089012015-11-22T11:17:00.003+11:002015-11-22T11:19:28.383+11:00Blooming Stripes......another blanket finished for 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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All done and glowing on a glorious winters day.</div>
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This is a very big <a href="http://plainjanecreations.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/blooming-stripes-blanket-is-nearly-done.html" target="_blank">blanket</a> and was a very large project to complete.</div>
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So glad I stuck at it.</div>
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I love the random striping.</div>
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The colours really are as bright as these beachside photos.</div>
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Loved working on this blanket, love the colours, love that it fits my QS bed and I simply love the very simple border.</div>
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I've made so much with this great appliance, she hasn't had a day off since landing at our place. Fun and simple cooking from the most basic ingredients, so good. If anyone asked me if Thermomix are worth the money I would say YES! If you love cooking good wholesome food simply then this is the gadget for you. </div>
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Dear Husband and I attended a <a href="https://www.thermomix.com.au/" target="_blank">Thermomix</a> Festive Flavour class hosted locally by some great demonstrators and reps. We both learned an awful lot more about our Thermione and how to get the very best out of her. We were very lucky on the day too, winning a copy of the Festive Flavour cookbook and a gorgeous gingerbread house made by Leah. Picked up another great book by Jo Whitton of the great Australian <a href="http://www.quirkycooking.com.au/" target="_blank">Quirky Cooking blog</a>. Pretty sure the class was a great success because Dear Husband came home and cooked for the first time with Thermione and made really good Mongolian Lamb for dinner all by himself.</div>
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At the moment I'm waiting for the almond biscotti to cook, great recipe from the Festive Flavours book which we sampled at the class.</div>
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Chicken and cashew nut risotto was my first effort with our new kitchen machine.</div>
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Homemade basil pesto great spread over a chicken breast, topped with tomato or avocado and mozarella, baked in the oven.</div>
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ANZAC biscuits are so quick and easy to make up in the jug that weighs, heats, melts, cooks and mixes the raw ingredients.</div>
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Hot chocolate, full cream milk and real dark chocolate melted and heated together. Mmmmm!</div>
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Coriander and cashew nut pesto, wonderful flavours.</div>
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Todays' pair of loaves, one to keep and one to give away.<br />
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Darling Daughter turned 21 last week. Lucky girl is in Portugal celebrating with Jack Sparrow. Not sure where all those years have gone but she has turned out spectacularly well. Love her and miss her. xo<br />
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The most recent photo of her and the special man in her life, last month in the Dolomites, Italy.<br />
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I arrived at work today to find this wonderful portrait laminated and on my office wall. Love it! It was a joint collaboration between two gorgeous budding artists who are sisters. It is actually quite an accurate portrait of me, they have got every detail just right. A little unsure why I don't have eyes but they recreated my new glasses perfectly. I love all the flowers and celestial details. Thank you girls. xo</div>
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I made my first loaf of basic white bread with the help of my Thermomix 4 weeks ago, it was good.</div>
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It's been great fun, it's pretty easy to achieve, it tastes so good, has a nice chewy crust and full of holey bacterial goodness.</div>
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Today I searched for a pattern similar to mine to share with you all and I found this lovely <a href="http://cre8tioncrochet.com/2014/04/oceanic-baby-blanket/" target="_blank">Oceanic Baby Blanket pattern</a> that comes in ten sizes. Amazingly their QS design has exactly the same number of chains in the starting chain, 332 which was a bit painful to count and get the first row correctly set up. A free pattern in US crochet terms. </div>
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I know it's been months between blog posts, not sure why.........just because. I do promise you I haven't lost my creative mojo though! I have been busy most days with hook or needles. This blanket was made in 45 days and I love it.....a lot. Before you ask.......it's not for sale!</div>
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Six years ago I stashed quite a few balls of now discontinued <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library/cleckheaton-vintage-hues" target="_blank">Cleckheaton Vintage Hues</a> 12 ply pure wool in four different colourways.</div>
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The pattern inspiration I used was <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/124-1-bohemian-oasis---crochet-blanket-in-delight-and-fabel" target="_blank">Bohemian Oasis</a>, a free pattern from Drops freely available on Ravelry. The pattern uses a much, much finer wool, the blocks are joined differently and the border was lacy but I made my own version. I used <a href="http://www.bendigowoollenmills.com.au/product/tabid/55/2328/2328/186358/Luxury/default.aspx" target="_blank">Bendigo Woollen Mills 10 ply Luxury</a> in denim blue shade to join and border the whole blanket. I used my very favourite crab stitch edging again.</div>
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Almost time to head out to our little shop in Coolmon. It's a shame that it's so far away from my coast home but luckily I do love a drive in the countryside. Our little shop is looking all beautiful ready for some good spring trading, we are also gearing up for a couple of days out in Wagga Wagga Wagga selling all things Kindrawares at the <a href="http://www.waggawaggaaustralia.com.au/event.asp?evid=11049" target="_blank">Childrens Medical Research Institute Christmas Fair </a>next week. We love this outing, we meet so many great customers in Wagga and we hope we'll see them again out at our shop. This fair is a fabulous place to begin your Christmast shoppin, so much to choose from and all very high quality stalls. I'll be starting mine! Actually I have bought one present already.</div>
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Time to start working on a very special collection of handmade Christmas tree decorations for our little shop this year. I love making handmade Christmas things, but you need to start early to get them all done! The little heart design evolved from trial and error, I'm better at working from a photo of a finished item than actually reading a patttern.</div>
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She's happy and so am I! I found this little<a href="http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/crochet-snowflake.html" target="_blank"> snowflake pattern</a> over at Attic24 blog.</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Yesterday I made a brand new friend in real life and she is an amazing gardener, crafter, home schooling mum and cook. Pop on over to her beautiful fresh blog C</span><a href="http://juliemaloney.blogspot.com.au/" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank">ountry Living Beside the Sea</a><span style="text-align: justify;"> and you will see what I mean. I'm still in shock I've made a new friend when I'm almost 48 and we have so much in common. We can't wait to sit and crochet or do a bit of gardening the next time we meet. Strangely we met through social media and a yarn club we both belong to, amazingly we only live 15 minutes apart. I have to send out a big thank you to Jodie from <a href="http://www.jellywares.com/" target="_blank">Jellyware's </a>who brought Julie and I together. Real friendships are a rare and beautiful thing. I'm feeling very grateful today. </span></div>
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I taught a lovely group of rural women how to make these brooches, success, they all managed to complete one to take home.</div>
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Last fire for the winter, these two will miss their evenings indoors.</div>
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My favourite Dr Marten shoes, my winter uniform.</div>
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Time to get the vege garden started for spring and summer produce. The first spears of asparagus have sprouted.</div>
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A gorgeous sketch of Miss Ruby by a very talented Twitter friend. Will have to frame it to go with the two others she has done from photos I've posted of my dog on Twitter. So lifelike!</div>
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My last winter Jellywares yarn club, Noro Taiyo was made up into a Queen Anne Lace scarf. I made some modifications to have more loops and a bit fuller and firmer design. Love how this has turned out. Now to work out what to make from my first spring yarn club parcel which has two lovely cottons to work with. </div>
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Also visited this <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dowry/340528559325932" target="_blank">fabulous brand new shop </a>in our town, Fleur and Christine have excelled themselves. Visit them in Ford Street, Moruya, you won't be disappointed. I started my Christmas shopping!</div>
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Donna and I were invited to take a tableful of Kindrawares goodies to the<a href="http://www.ganmainshow.org.au/" target="_blank"> Ganmain Show</a> Ladies Marquee. </div>
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Quirky, modern, inexpensive giftware is our thing.</div>
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We even sold two cookbooks to<a href="http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/gallery-e6frea6u-1111120100830?page=47" target="_blank"> Mr October 2002</a>! Who would have thought!</div>
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Old Kentucky Animal Farm brought the most beautiful selection of baby animals I have ever seen.</div>
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Dagwood Dogs, Fairly Floss, Dodgem Cars, Giant Dippers and all that Side Show Alley can offer was there.</div>
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The pavillion was filled to capacity this year, my favourite part of a country show.<br />
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Remember I said I wanted to have a go at making something like <a href="http://resurrectionfern.typepad.com/resurrection_fern/2014/05/hello.html" target="_blank">these beauties</a> when I found a bag of vintage crochet cottons at a thrift store recently. </div>
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On the 7th August our Darling Daughter and her boyfriend Jack Sparrow headed off on a 4 month adventure of a lifetime in Greece, Turkey, Croatia and Italy.</div>
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A birthday gift in the making, wool and soya bean protein yarn. Somewhere between the two photos is the real colour of this yarn. </div>
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BYOL and a glorious late June afternoon, perfectfor enjoying fish'n'çhips from the Sandy Foot Cafe.</div>
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The largest grapevine in Australia planted in 1867 at <a href="http://www.chilternvic.com/visitor_activities/activities_historic-buildings.html" target="_blank">The Grapevine Museum</a> in Chiltern.</div>
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Finished this last week, soaked, blocked and worn once already. I started <a href="http://plainjanecreations.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/starting-to-find-my-creative-mogo.html" target="_blank">this project</a> back in January and I'm proud of my efforts to finish this. It is really delicious, so soft and drapey, my first fine crochet work. It weighs 142g and measures 58"wide by 28" deep, perfect for bandit style wearing. I added a 5 chain picot to the centre of each scallop in the final row which looks great but was really handy for threading the blocking wires through. I had 8g of wool leftover so this project cost $1.42, not bad! I have 134g of this wool in a pale turquoise, might have to search out a pattern for that very soon.</div>
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In June my Jellywares <a href="http://plainjanecreations.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/a-finish-im-very-happy-about.html" target="_blank">winter yarn club package</a> arrived and inside was a ball of Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino and this is what I made with it. A pair of Ripple Lace Finglerless Gloves for Darling Daughter who is leaving next week for a 4 month European backpacking trip of a life time with her boyfriend of almost 4 years, Jack Sparrow. I was slow to get started on my first yarn club package, I was a bit scared if the truth be know, crochet is still a bit out of my comfort zone but I pushed myself and I did it. I made the pair in one evening. Great <a href="http://bethsco.com/2011/11/ripple-lace-fingerless-gloves.html#sthash.OgSfECX7.giOlDZ94.dpbs" target="_blank">easy pattern</a>, free on Bethany Scofiled's blog. I did use a smaller hook, 3.5mm and started with 36 chain to start, bit firmer and thicker fabric. I'll be making these again, great quick gift. </div>
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What to make this month? I wasn't keen on any of the suggested projects so I found may own on Ravelry. <a href="http://www.mooglyblog.com/sunset-shawlette/" target="_blank">Sunset Shawlette</a> by Tamara Kelly, another freebie. This wool blend is a 4ply sock wool and the pattern is worked using a 5mm hook so this project is working up very fast. I have done a lot more while we were away last week, will show you the finished project very soon. The colour of the yarn is most like the boxed hank, the worked photo is too green, poor lighting at night on my lap. </div>
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Also had time to whip this cowl up. Bought a ball of Noro a my local yarn store and used almost every inch. Might write the pattern up so you can make one too. Never written a crochet pattern yet but I did write notes while I worked so maybe I can do it. This washed up so soft and I've worn it half a dozen times already. </div>
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At the beginning of July these four siblings got together on the Gold Coast to celebrate the big 50 for the younger brother. I've known him for half of his life and in that time he has clocked up an amazing number of travel miles all over the world, he is a restless soul who seems to love exploring and meeting new people in all corners of the world. The Traveller has always been the family clown as you can see by their family portrait in the 1960's and he didn't disappoint at his birthday shoot. He had a couple of birthday beers before I shot 24 photos in 5 minutes before his party started. Through the viewfinder I didn't see he was up to mischief!</div>
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Today I had a haircut and then I thought I might treat myself to a movie before I do some grocery shopping. I really am getting old, I can't read my iPhone easily without my glasses and I was exactly a month early for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2582846/" target="_blank">The Fault is in our Stars</a> movie! Not happy! I know my friend in Perth, Western Australia saw it last weekend! I read <a href="http://www.penguin.com.au/products/9780143567592/fault-our-stars" target="_blank">the book</a> early last year and I'm ready to see it now!</div>
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Sadly, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0118t80" target="_blank">this series</a> has just finished too! Really love the characters and story lines, set in Poplar in the desperately poor East End of London in the 1950's. What am I going to watch? It won't be the World Cup!</div>
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I finished <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com.au/books/margareta-osborn/bellas-run-9781742758961.aspx" target="_blank">Bella's Run</a> today and it was an enjoyable read but a little bit too predictable. I have started reading again after almost 12 months of not reading novels at all. A couple of months ago I dug out my Kindle ereader and downloaded a book and just started to read and now I'm wondering why I ever stopped. I love reading, it is pure escapism and a nice reward at the end of busy days to just read and relax before nodding off. Do you read paper and ink books or are do you use an electronic reader? I personally find my Kindle so easy to hold and read in bed I'm a convert. Having said that I do still buy books that I seek out at our three local independent book stores and we do have a whole room in our house that is a dedicated library room, which is sadly in need of a good sort out! </div>
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Another great easy <a href="http://www.jojomoyes.com/books/me-before-you/" target="_blank">girly read</a>.</div>
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I popped into my local book shop this week and thought <a href="http://www.brycecourtenay.com/page/jessica/" target="_blank">this novel</a> by a great Australian author Bryce Courtenay looked like a book I would enjoy reading. It is set in the Riverina and apparently is based upon a real woman. UPDATE 28th June - Book finished and I really did like this novel but the ending what you would imagine while turning the pages as fast as possible to find out what becomes of Jessica. </div>
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This book very much appealed to me, I love eclectic decorating and the use of natural fibres, handmade furnishings and lots of wood was really appealing.</div>
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Saw these great quilting books too! Quilt Me had some fabulous ideas using vintage linens in her quilts. Right up my alley! Quilting Happiness was just that some lovely bright modern quilt patterns.</div>
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This wonderful pile of vintage linens was gifted to me last week and there are some absolutely gorgeous pieces of handmade goodness in there. Lucky me!</div>
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I don't mind winter time at all, gives me an excuse to watch movies, enjoy television series, read good books and get creative in my sewing room. </div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">I have always been fascinated by plaits, maybe it goes back to my time on the farm watching my grandad plaiting intricate belts out of old fashioned bailing twine. I've never had a go at plaiting with more than three strands but I'd love to explore this to see if it is easy or something that you need lots of practice to get it just right. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">This winter has begun and it's starting to get a bit cool when I'm out walking Ruby on the beach so I dug out some wool from my stash and sat down to design a new scarf for myself over the weekend. I find the most annoying thing about scarves is that they are really easy to lose because they fall or blow off in the wind. I've overcome this problem by making this scarf continuous. The idea came from a customer who visited our shop a few weeks ago, she was wearing a really long continuous persimon coloured fine woven wool scarf. I stored the idea away thinking that was so elegant but really practical.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">The scarf measures 10cm x 150cm (4"x 59")</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">You will need a 2 x 50g balls of yarn, the one I used was Sean Sheep Rockbank<u>,</u></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> made in China, approximately 125 meters/136 yards of very soft self striping 70% wool and 30% alpaca, a scrap of wool for a temporary cast on, a 4.5mm crochet hook (or similar), a pair of 5.5mm knitting needles and a cable needle that will hold 4 stitches. <i>*This wool has a suggested tension using 4.5mm knitting needle producing 28 rows x 20 stitches over 10cm (4") on the ball band. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">To begin make a row of chain stitches using the scrap of wool and the crochet hook, approximately 36 chain stitches. <i>*If you want to make your scarf wider then add stitches in multiples of 8.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Next knit up 32 stitches with your main wool into the back loop of the chain stitches of the temporary cast on. This cast on technique is used because when all the knitting is finished you can remove the chain stitched crochet cast on and pickup the 32 'live' stitches and then graft them to the other end of your knitted scarf to complete your continuous scarf with an almost invisible join. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Remove the temporary crochet cast on placing 'live' stitches onto your spare knitting needle making sure that when the scarf is folded in half with wrong sides together that the two needles will both point in the same direction ready for Kitchener stitch grafting the stitches together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Here is a great video from KnittingHelp.com that shows your exactly how to go about doing your <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmgE7YQkrFw" target="_blank">Kitchener stitch grafting</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">An easy knit that would make a great, inexpensive, thoughtful gift for someone this winter.</span><br />
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I picked this English crochet magazine (<a href="http://www.simplycrochetmag.co.uk/" target="_blank">Simply Crochet</a>) up last week and I'm yet to settle down and have a good read. It has some really great articles, projects and very interesting ads. Maybe today after I throw a pot of soup on for dinner! The magazine website has some great <a href="http://www.simplycrochetmag.co.uk/category/free-patterns/" target="_blank">free patterns </a>and <a href="http://www.simplycrochetmag.co.uk/category/tutorials/" target="_blank">tutorials</a> too!</div>
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I'm always busy, even when I'm just watching TV or a good movie. I hate just sitting and watching, I have to have something in my hands to work on or I feel like I'm wasting time. These cowls and scarves are for <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kindrawares/286639004778165" target="_blank">our little shop in Coolamon</a>, it gets a lot colder out there and I'm sure our shoppers will fall in love with these luxury yarns all made into one off accessories to set off their winter outfit. I don't work from patterns I let the yarn dictate what it should become and of course how much yarn there is to work with really decides how the project begins. </div>
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I've joined a winter yarn club and the first installment arrives this week! I've been so looking forward to this, Jodie from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/JellywaresOnMarshall?ref=tn_tnmn" target="_blank">Jellywares on Marshall</a> has been teasing us with sneak peeks at the parcels as they were being packed. I bought one of Jodie's kits last winter and made my <a href="http://plainjanecreations.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/so-happy-to-be-home.html" target="_blank">Finito Scarf</a> without too much trouble, once I got the first rows sorted it was pretty simple. I've been very busy over the weekend finishing off crochet projects so I can justify starting whatever is in my yarn club parcel immediately! </div>
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Well, May has escaped me, no blogging at all. Time to let you know what I was up to while I was absent from my blog. Mothers Day fell near the middle and I had a great day being made very special and then my mum visited and I made a sponge cake for afternoon tea. Nothing better than a sponge cake straight out of oven cooled, spread with lime and raspberry jam and lashings of cream. It was delish! <a href="http://plainjanecreations.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/birthday-sponge-cake.html" target="_blank">Here's a link to my recipe just for you!</a></div>
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I started and finished this baby blanket for a very special baby girl who arrived just in time for Mothers Day. I used almost 600g of <a href="http://www.bendigowoollenmills.com.au/Product/tabid/55/2328/2328/190712/CLASSIC/Default.aspx" target="_blank">Bendigo Woollen Mills classic 8ply pure wool</a> in the shade Rosebud and a 4.5mm hook. The pattern I thought I might be able to manage was <a href="http://stitcheryprojects.com/2013/03/05/lacy-round-ripple-blanket/" target="_blank">Heather Tucker's, Lacy Round Ripple Blanket</a>, a free pattern I found on <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/lacy-round-ripple-blanket" target="_blank">Ravelry</a>. I'm not a very experienced crochet pattern reader and I have to say the centre nearly defeated me, but I'm stubborn and once I got to where the rippling started it was pretty straight forward as long as you meticulously cross the rows off as they are done. I washed and blocked the blanket and I was really pleased how it turned out. Dear Husband delivered the blanket personally and met the divine little Miss. </div>
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I love vintage linen and these little purses are great for using up little pieces of precious embroidery, hand crocheted edgings, and old jeans. The flaps are crochet that I made using a pattern in a <a href="http://plainjanecreations.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/starting-to-find-my-creative-mogo.html" target="_blank">book </a>I bought recently. I'm really happy with the finished product, a bit fiddly but worth the effort.</div>
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Crochet cotton coasters were fun and they display really well at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kindrawares/286639004778165?ref=hl" target="_blank">Kindrawares</a>.</div>
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I made a trip over to our little shop and it's looking gorgeous as usual. Love my time over there staying on the farm with my sister, <a href="http://donna-thefarmerswife.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">The Farmers Wife</a>. The winter crops are all planted now they just need a bit of rain and harvest 2014 will be looking good.</div>
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Good hearty food to keep us warm and contented. The best thing about winter.</div>
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The Easter break is finished and the weather has been glorious! Beautiful sunny days and nice cool nights perfect for sleeping. I have always loved the beach and no day is complete for me without a stroll along one of the three beaches just outside my front gate. That stripey velour towel is regularly taken down to the beach, but you'd never guess it must be about 30 plus years old! I'm just 16 years old in that photo at Te Araroa in the North Island of New Zealand. My mum brought down an old family photo album last week so Dear Husband and I could look at the South Island trip my family took way back in the early 1980's, I'll share some of the photos in another post. At the back of the album was a summer holiday trip our family shared with a number of other kiwi families travelling around the east cape of the North Island in our Model A Fords, a camping holiday, great memories. I wish I still looked as good as the towel still does!</div>
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We also stopped at the <a href="http://dowry.com.au/about.html" target="_blank">Dowry</a> popup shop at Moruya Books. What a visual feast of colour and texture. Always love the collection Fleur and her mum Christine pull together. I bought this little crochet birdie because it just called to me and it is made by a friend I have met through my blog. Lee lives in Queensland and we have only had contact via the web but we are kindred spirits in our crafting and <a href="http://plainjanecreations.blogspot.com.au/search/label/Old%20china" target="_blank">broken old china collecting</a>, one day we will meet I'm sure. </div>
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This might sound really strange but occasionally when I drive into town and pass near a thrift store I feel that I have to stop and go in, as if there is something telling me there is a Liberty Tana lawn shirt within. Last week once again I felt that tug and there it was not even on the shirt rack but weirdly amongst the dresses this gorgeous shirt in great condition and a print that I don't have in my big collection (well over 20 now). It really is time I settled on a design and get to work creating my <a href="http://plainjanecreations.blogspot.com.au/search/label/Liberty%20shirts" target="_blank">Liberty quilt</a>. </div>
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More crocheting, this time cotton coasters for our little Kindrawares shop. I've made a few sets now, time to find some new Bendigo double knitting, 8ply knitting cotton colours, starting to exhaust my supply. </div>
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I think this thrifted laminated bamboo apple bowl will be great on the counter at our little shop, filled with wonderful handmade wooden jewellery. Couldn't resist it last week!</div>
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Time to go and get into my sewing room and do some alterations. The local surgeon I work with thinks I have nothing better to do than shorten his pants whenever he goes on a shopping spree........which is often. I'm not sure why he thinks I would enjoy that sort of sewing! </div>
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