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 [...]
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: 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 [...]
Things we made in Staithes
John and I have just returned from another fabulous holiday at Northside Cottage in Staithes. We first went in January 2006 and loved it to bits but what with starting our own companies and everything, we’ve not really had time to go again. We finally decided a break was in order last month and though [...]
Double-pointed needles: double the needles, quadruple the hell
After many, many false starts, I’ve just finished my first knitting project (a hat for John) using circular needles and double-pointed needles. The circular needles were a dream – as soon as I realised you have to have the right needle gauge AND the right length for the job – but as I’m making his [...]
Learnings
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been learning to drive, belly-dance and crochet. Not at the same time, mind you. The driving thing came about because I’d said in, ooh, 2002 that I’d get around to driving one day. In July, Katherine thought six years was long enough for me to arrange my own “one [...]