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December 22nd
Foggy start to the morning.Makes everything beautiful and frosty.Such a regal looking girl.Who then had the crazy zoomies!Today was a day for baking - sourdough starter all fed and bubbly.My favourite...
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December 23rd
The oven was going just about all morning - sourdough bread (made yesterday and baked today), granola, and blueberry muffins.Still time for some more embroidery (and knitting).Maggie watching the birds...
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December 24th
Today I was working on finishing up this weaving. It has been on the loom since August - which is way too long. 6 tea towels, plus a small towel, almost finished.It is Christmas Eve so we had our...
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December 25th
Merry Christmas!I finished up the last towel and they are off the loom. I can't seem to make a set of towels without at least one having a mistake - how I missed it yesterday I don't know.Miss Molly...
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December 26th
The tea towels are all washed and hemmed.The warp is 2/8 cotton (natural and black). Four of the towels are woven with 2/8 cotton, two woven with cotton chenille, and  the leftover warp was woven with...
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December 27th
I finished the first of three little stitch meditation spool.Today was a beautiful, warm (0ºC) day. Everyone was outside enjoying it.Maggie enjoying the sun.Molly with her favourite ball.Molly chasing...
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December 28th
I finished spinning a skein of yarn. With the end of the year coming up I am trying to finish off different projects. The weaving loom is empty, now the spinning wheel is empty too.This is a...
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December 29th
Today I sewed a little bag for a new game (magnetic chess). I used a tutorial I had made had made years ago.Early morning walk.Miss MollyMiss MaggieAll the best!♥︎
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December 30th
Finished off the last of the 3 little bobbin scrolls - another project complete before the end of the year.I milled a kilogram of wheat berries today, the most I have done at once in this little mill...
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December 31st
Every New Year's Eve I participate in a Spin-In in a Ravelry group. This is what I spun today - a little sample of a fibre I was given over a year ago. It was a beautiful fibre, full of curly locks,...
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Week 1 of 2024
I finished knitting my sweater. It is a simple, top-down, raglan sweater (no pattern). I cast on 66 stitches for the neck on 4.5mm needles and went from there. The yarn is Wool of the Andes Tweed from...
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Week 2 of 2024
This past week I cut and overlocked 101 little "blankets" (the smallest size is 3.5"x5") to donate to a local hospital. They just need to have the ends woven in, and be washed and pressed.I finished...
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Week 3 of 2024
This past week I cut 1600, 3+1/2" squares of fabric (each stack is 100 squares).To make a queen sized, scrappy, Broken Dishes quilt.This will be my new grab-and-go project, that fits in a tin (my...
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Week 4 of 2024
This past week I sewed another black skirt. This one a winter one in a thick knit (I think a ponte or a scuba - another one that was $1 a pound). It is from a Lutterloh dress pattern that I modified to...
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Week 5 of 2024
This week I finished knitting a cowl. I used just about every bit of handspun yarn (I did have to 'tink' back quite a bit to make the cowl narrower, because I was going to run out of yarn, but the size...
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Week 6 of 2024
This week I finished up a quilt -This was a stash buster quilt that I cut almost a year ago, and was my grab-and-go project to sew at quilt group. Made from batik fabric, it is 90" square. The fabric...
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Week 7 of 2024
I sewed another pair of pants this week. It is the second pair of black pants (both from stretch denim), but this pair is out of better fabric (the other pair has white lines over them). Still $1 a...
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Week 8 of 2024
This week I sewed a little jacket out of leftover French Terry from a project I had made years ago.The pattern is from Lutterloh - a vintage reproduction #77 from supplement 320 Spring 2021. I modified...
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Week 9 of 2024
Not much crafting this week, it was more about cooking and baking (my quest to be more self sufficient means there is more food preparation which I enjoy too).The only thing I finished was a little...
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Week 10 of 2024
This past week I started a quilted jacket -This was a medallion quilt top that I made over 6 years ago. I wasn't really happy with it and I knew that it probably needed more, but I didn't think I would...
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