Archive for January, 2009
New lojoco site! ThingsToDoToday.org
John and I, as lojoco, have launched a new website: Things To Do Today. To be neat, we launched it on 1st January and I added it my projects page but forgot to blog about it over here. To steal the blurb from there though: Updated daily, Monday to Friday, Things To Do Today is [...]
Flatbread with honey & sesame oil
I wanted to make some flatbreads to go with our lamb tagine this evening but all the recipes called for plain flour & yeast and I couldn’t find any of the latter in our over-stuffed cupboard. I kept the yeast-activating honey from the recipes I found though and aside from that just improvised. They turned [...]
Making stuff: another crochet net shopping bag
I’ve made a few of these crocheted shopping bags now and am refining them further and further every time. They’re roughly based on Melinama’s pattern though (a note – she uses US stitches so SC = our DC; and her DC = our TC). My favourite thing is they’re super quick and easy to make [...]
Making stuff: fiery ginger and honey biscuits
I’ve been in a bit of a biscuit making phase recently – something I’ve not really done before because the effort has seemed like it was out of proportion with the end product. Then I found a really simple and quick recipe for cinnamon biscuits and made a batch for John in November, and after [...]
Making stuff: a knitting needle bag made from old jeans
As my love of knitting and crochet has grown so has my collection of needles, hooks and other related accessories. I decided I needed a needle bag to keep them all neat but despite digging the sewing machine out, didn’t fancy doing too much sewing. My first thought was to modify an old pillow case [...]