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At last I managed to find some new couches that would come through the modern British narrow doorways. It's quite common these days to have to remove a window to get a couch in, and I didn't want to have to do this. I had recovered the old one so many times and now the foam was beginning to crumble in places. It was the last thing in the house to be replaced since my retirement 5 years ago. My son and I spent a day demolishing it ready to dispose of at the tip. All manner of chores, basically de… Continue

Until recently I had about 3 Dolls Houses which I had fully furnished. I thought some of the knitted items I had made might give somebody the idea to be creative and make their own versions as wonderful Christmas gifts for children and grandchildren. These items were all 1/12th scale.
For the bathroom items, I used some very fine boucle knit in garter stitch for making miniature towels and flannels. I embroiderd a tiny motif on a corner of the flannels, and rolled up a matching towel and secured… Continue

I seem to have spent more time unpicking than knitting the past week, but have managed to complete a few things despite this setback.
The Plum coloured neck cowl, or whatever you care to call it, made with the Wheat-Ear Border pattern has turned out suitable for another Christmas gift. I added 8 more garter stitches to the garter stitch edge, and did short rows every 6 rows on just the pattern part, so it curved a bit more to lie nicely around the neck..

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Yesterday I saw the lovely free pattern for the Wheat-Ear Border in Knitting Daily newsletter. I thought it would make a great bookmarker Knitted in cotton and then starched. I also thought it might make a thin evening scarf. I knit one pattern repeat in the gold yarn same as I had previously knit the Juliet Scarf. It looked good but was only 5" wide.

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