Blogs — finished object
Feelings About Garms
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A Pastel Dream!
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Over a year ago I saw a story on Mahliqa Jewellery's instagram stories which featured a group of people at her stall at a fibre festival. They were all smiling and the sort of dishevelled that only a yarn festival can cause. One of the subjects was wearing the most beautiful granny square jumper in the entire world. I literally gasped and took a screen shot straight away - but I needn't have because the image is still absolutely in my mind. So gorgeous. It was made of simple granny squares, crocheted in shades of creams/beiges with rounds of deep reds, russets, army...
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Allow Me to Show Off Just a Little...
Posted by Eleanor Burke on

I MADE A REALLY NICE JUMPER AND I MADE IT UP MORE OR LESS! So, Dr Chris is working over in Sweden at the minute and so I've been thinking of knitting him something lovely in wool for a little while. Two (now three...) weeks ago, I got chatting to a gorgeous customer about fairisle projects, I can't even remember what was said honestly but she totally inspired me and I cast something on that very night! I knew I wanted to do a top down, I knew I wanted it to be based on the navy colour in the King...
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THE Granny Square Jumper.
Posted by Eleanor Burke on

I so enjoyed writing my last blog, and I've had a bit of a weird morning so I thought I'd sit downstairs in the stillness of the office and have another go. This time it might be a more familiar piece as it's appeared a lot of social media and on the newsletter (haven't sent one of those since before Christmas but who knows what might happen...). The piece in question is this one: I love that picture of me, it was a happy time in autumn last year and the whole garment had been a dream to put together. I...
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The Newish Reddish Top
Posted by Eleanor Burke on

You wouldn't know this but I do actually finish some projects. Once upon a time, in the old blog and vlog, I used to update you when I started, as I was going and then when I finished. I was spurred on to finish so that I could show you all what I was up to and somehow, as the shop got busier that just waned a little until I got to the point where I was like - does anybody actually want to know?! Especially when a swatch and an excited post will be enough to sell something online...
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