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Klaar! Serpe vir die oumas.
Ek het onlangs vertel van my hekel-heldinne, waarvan twee ons oumas is. Ouma Corrie het onlangs 90 geword, en ouma Nettie 88.Wat om vir 'n ouma te gee op daardie ouderdom?'n Serpie, van die Yvestown...
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Klaar! My Malabrigo-serp
Hier is dit, my Malabrigo supersagte supermooie groenste groenbloue serp!Here it is...my Malabrigo supersoft superbeautiful greenest of greenblue scarf!(note that I got the spelling of SCARF right now...
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Tadaaah!! Lucy se Ripple in Afrikaans
Translated into Afrikaans with permission of Lucy, www.attic24.typepad.comBaie dankie aan Lucy van Attic 24 wat ons toestemming gegee het om haar Neat Ripplein Afrikaans te doen!Die oorspronklike...
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Hoopla! Gr 1-Super- Method Cheat's Lemonade
After five year of fighting the dogs, pests, disease, frost and what not, this year, I have a harvest:So I contemplated my mini-orchard over the weekend and wondered...what to do with four trees...
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Breakfast Rusks
There are few things so quintessentially South African as The Rusk.We have a few beloved delicacies, such as biltong, melktert, snoek and jam tarts (and many more), and you will find these in homes,...
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One-a-Day Granny Cowl Scarve
A couple of us got together to knit/crochet a few things as part of the Knit-in-Public-Week thingey. The plan was to donate what we made to the school, to use as and where required. So my...
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A Meadow of African Flowers
I wrote about the African Flower blanket that we are doing, my sis and I, together with our aunty Helena. It's not finished yet, but I thought I'd show you, because it's going to be so beautiful that I...
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One-a-Day Granny Cowl
My One-a-Day Granny Cowl is finished!(Well, if you don't look at the 7 squares x 6 rounds + 1 black round's worth of ends that is still flapping happily about...)We left yesterday afternoon on an...
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Guest Blog! The Widest Ripple Ever
And so I invited myself to be a guest blogger on my sister's blog! See, I've just finished the widest-ever-ripple and I'm so relieved and happy that it is e-v-e-n-t-u-a-l-l-y finished. Some time last...
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One-A-Day...Towards a baby blanket
Hi fellow One-A-Dayers!I decided to give you a photo-log of my progress this week on a baby blanket for a friend:Testing the pattern - which one shall I use?Getting colours togetherI'm using Vinni's -...
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67 minutes
What can you do in 67 minutes?Read a magazine, have a coffee at your local, or do something good?Down here in Mzansi, we try for the latter, during July. On his 94thOn July 18, old-president Nelson...
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One-Ripple-A-Day
Oops...I'm a bit late...but this is one of the things I've been busy with last week:A third ripple, this time for a big fat cushion for ME. Made up with ultra lovely Rowan Handknit Cotton, Rowan...
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Cry, my beloved country
Many of you might have seen in the news the terrible events unfolding at a mine in my country today.Many versions/interpretations of what happened was sent out into the world.It is not about police...
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Grade 1 Super-Method Sewing Machine Cover
1. Look in dismay at the pile of things to do and clothes to mend on work tableSad work table 2. Discover one basket under pile. Remove silly lining and put basket to use in bedroom.Actually, those...
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The Places We Go (1) - The "Tree Park"
I live in South Africa, a beautiful place with a great climate (mostly), fantastic landscapes, incredible people. Tongue in cheek, it has also been labeled bipolar...because as high as our highs can...
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One-a-Day...Still towards a baby blanket
A baby is scheduled to be born tomorrow morning.Eight and two half squares and some rounds of border need to be finished!Waiting in the car while little one is still asleep at pre-schoolIf you would...
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Gauteng Thunder
You know it's spring in Gauteng when darker clouds start to gather during the afternoon and the sky gets a greyish-yellowish tint:Top - towards the west where the mines are where my man is doing water...
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One-A-Day...Almost a baby blanket
Almost there. The last corner squares are halfway done, one other to FROG and redoThen a simple edge - one granny row in the light blue, followed by 1r trebles, 1r htr, and the 1r htr in the navy?Will...
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National Heritage Day...or, Let's Braai!
Today is 24 September, National Heritage Day in South Africa, a newish public holiday declared to celebrate our national heritage.Which might be like trying to find the chameleon on the Smartie Box, as...
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Klaar! Nog blomserpe en 'n beanie
O wee, so hardloop die tyd en die een na die ander blomserpie word gemaak. Ek was bang hierdie lyk soos gebakte eier, maar die daisy het mooi deurgekom. vriendin Elaine was mal daaroor, en toe kry sy...
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