I knew I didn’t have quite enough yarn for a cardigan for Our Dear Girl but I was going to make it work anyway. As it is Wovember, I thought I would celebrate the endeavour and good sheep it came from. The yarn is English Leicester x Merino by Moseley Park. The sheep are raised […]
Inside the Ribbon Tin is a monthly series featuring a miscellany of bits and bobs, odds and sods, knicks and knacks, all sorts of interesting things related to textiles and making. Come and see what is inside the Ribbon Tin this month. It seems that everywhere I look this month, there are crafty folks doing good works […]
Last Saturday, our family made the annual pilgrimage to Bendigo for the Australian Sheep and Wool Show. It was a fine winter day, chill but sunny. Bendigo was looking majestic and festively woolly. The Wool Show was here. It looks a little bleak doesn’t it but rest assured, there were lots more folks inside! The […]
I have been a bit of a list person, a should do kind of woman. So I rather surprised myself with this spontaneous treat of a project…a shawl just for me, knit for the sheer pleasure of it, a perfect holiday knitting experience. I cast on as soon as we unpacked and knitted into every stitch all […]
Our children seem to loose sunhats like I loose pins, frequently and to my great irritation. So we visited our local charity shop to find a quick replacement. We didn’t find a sunhat but I did find a very warm beanie. Not really useful right now but surely will be soon. I call it the […]
Another month has passed and it is time to open the Ribbon Tin. Inside the Ribbon Tin is a monthly series featuring a miscellany of bits and bobs, odds and sods, knicks and knacks, all sorts of interesting things related to textiles and making. It is high summer here. The lawns are brown, the parks cracked […]
Isn’t it a beauty! The Auntie Eadie of my late, dear, next door neighbour crocheted this cosy in the fifties or sixities. Auntie Eadie was not afraid of colour! My dear next door neighbour gave it to me when she discovered I crocheted, along with the pattern. She had made one for herself and Auntie […]
Since we have been home, a lot of mums have asked me how we kept the kids happy and occupied on our travels. Apart from the obvious excursions to castles, museum and parks, it was a little tricky. Our kids were used to lots of unsupervised time in our backyard, making stuff with sand, dirt […]
A lost mitten took me to Ramshambles in York, a hole-in-the-wall yarn shop in the tangled heart of York. Well…this just gave me extra purpose…I was going anyway. Ramshambles is a tiny indie-style shop located in The Shambles, a crazy assortment of ancient buildings leaning this way and that. The streets inside the medieval town […]
Let me tell you about a very special place in Scotland called New Lanark. We went there as part of our road trip from Scotland to Somerset recently. I had been anticipating this visit ever since we first started planning our trip overseas. I had almost visited New Lanark in 1993 whilst cycling across Scotland […]
