“There are many ways of conveying information on a blog; text and images being the two most widely used. Many infographics combine both these elements to provide a visual way of presenting text information.” “Make your own infogaphic (no fancy imaging software needed, you can draw it on paper and photograph it if you want) […]
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“Your task today is to either think of or research a project that embodies that house/animal. It could be a knitting or crochet pattern – either of the animal itself or something that makes you think of the qualities of that house. Alternatively it could be a type or colour of yarn, or a single
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The House of Bee: Bees are busy and industrious, but can flit from one interesting project to the next as bright shiny things capture their interest. The House of Manatee: Manatees are gentle, calm and cuddly. Relaxed and unflashy they represent the comfort and soft side of knitting and crochet. The House of Monkey: Intelligent
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I have my finished mug from Mug Painting evening. The tea bag stand is being re-fired, so I’ll show you that another time. Before firing After firing, the colours really change. They look dull and chalky but the glaze becomes vibrant once fired. I added how I like my coffee on the handle too. A
Oh swatches. Knitters do seem to love to hate them. I love to swatch – I must be weird. What I tend to do is, while I’m knitting a current project and I have that moment where I’m either bored or a little frustrated with what I’m doing. I get a ball of yarn for
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Last night, a group of us from knitting went to the Paintbox Ceramic Cafe, Cleethorpes for mug painting. It was great fun and they all made some fantastic mugs. None of them are glazed yet, we’ll get to pick them up next week. I thought Charlotte’s frog was brilliant! I normally go every week, so
I’ve recently been looking into different cast on methods. I’ve tried quite a few and they’ve all got their purpose but I have taken quite a fancy to the Estonian Cast On (a.k.a. Double Start, Latvian). It’s quite simple to execute, it’s stretchy and can be quite decorative too. It works well with 1 x
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At my LYS, A Good Yarn, there was the New Launch sale last week (I bought too much and daren’t blog about it). There were lots of lovely yarns in stock. I wanted to use the Bergeré de France, Coton Fifty and the shop has had Mary Jane’s Tearoom patterns in stock. They have been hugely
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I had a lovely Sunday, we went to Doddington Hall – in search of a walk and some inspiration. I had lots of fun taking photos, it’s been ages since I went out specifically to photograph and I forgot how much I enjoyed it. It was an overcast day and I took lots. Here are
For my wedding all the table centre pieces were little hurricane lamp style vases filled with roses. I gave most of them away after the wedding to the guests but I kept two for myself. They’d been kicking around and not getting used. So I decided to decorate them with glass paints so they could
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