April 2021 archive

Queen Bee Dress

A quick version of New Look 6435 again, same as the Robin dress done at Christmas, but this time I remembered to add pockets!! Cut out Thursday night, and sewn in about 4 hours on Friday – and ready to wear 🙂

ZigZag Patchwork

I started planning this when I had finished my previous patchwork quilt. I have bought the jelly roll at the same time, and love the colours, but wasn’t sure the best way to use them. I googled jelly roll quilts and came across a zig zag patchwork image that I found quite striking, and decided …

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Crochet dress part 2

Following on from the first post about this dress: https://kariscraft.space/index.php/2021/02/24/crochet-dress/ I didn’t take many more progress pictures. I kept trying the dress on to increase to the right size and length having measured how much the last few rows of the colourwork would be. I distinctly remembered thinking that my stitch count needed to be …

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Easter and Spring Embroidery

I thought I would get started early for Easter (I did these Jan/Feb, only posting now they are with the recipients!). I had managed to buy quite a lot of embroidery designs from JuJu at a really reasonable price. I bought some plain tea towels (Amazon Prime next day delivery is so useful). I have …

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