That’s what we officially call the week between Christmas and New Year in our house. Growing up, it always seemed a time of playing with new toys, reading new books and visiting aged great aunts, but also a time of sometimes intense boredom while the adults held cheese and wine parties or dragged us around […]
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(As Margot Leadbetter would say.) I wonder whether you’re all ready for Christmas? It’s 7.30 on Christmas eve here in Britain, and I have not long completed my last task of card making. It’s been a superbly busy week, but I’ve cracked on, and have gift baking and knitting finished and wrapped ready for tomorrow’s
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Squirrelly Neckerchief – Aqua by Moon Angel on Flickr. Used under Creative Commons Licence. I asked on Twitter a while back for the modern-day word for ‘neckerchief’. People came up with various answers including cravat and fidget. It turned out that the closest to what I was thinking was a ‘baktus’. Baktus is a character
On 8th December I will be teaching a class at Clothkits in Chichester. It runs from 10am to 1pm and we will be making Kitschy Christmas Angels. These groovy little angels can be made in several sizes and have lots of yuletide uses. You can use them as tree toppers, hanging ornaments, sit them on
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