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Of yarn-bombing and public hooking
Ons Hekel is ready for International Yarn Bombing Day (8 June ) AND Wordwide-Knitting-in-Public Day (and here)!Although, obviously, we'll...hook :-)Here's some of the tools for our first little yarn...
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Wolbom 2013!
It started with my friend Maryna talking about putting legwarmers on the cow when it's winter, and then I was hooking beanies and had a second idea, and we remembered about yarn-bombing some time and...
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Worldwide Knit-in-Public...Hooking in Pretoria
This week is Worldwide Knit-in-Public Week!So we hooked, cause that's what we do, and there were some knitters as well, and we chose a nice, prominent, public spot, and sat down at Tribeca in Lynnwood...
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Craft Share - when we get together for crochet (and more)
I've previously mentioned Craft Share, a regular get-together with fellow hookers on a Friday.Craft Share is hosted by the talented Cornel of the blog "I love pom-poms", and she is also a regular...
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A yarny tail, and a sad tale
Ooooh...yoga bag, oh yoga bag!So near the end! If I can just sit DOWN en FINISH it:Attaching the tube to the bottom...luckily crochet is sooo forgiving and you can force it to fit. We had a long...
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The Everyday 7 - A Wrong Turn...
... (after detouring the roads closed for Pres. Obama's visit), took us around the block, and another one, to a dead end, and the world's media, where our previous Pres. Mandela is fighting for his...
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My Madiba moment
(No, I never had the opportunity to meet him).Source: www.sabc.co.za/newsBut in a week when our country watched anxiously as his condition deteriorated, quite a few pieces came by on Facebook, in...
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67 minutes - Madiba 95
Last year I wrote about Mandela Day, and what I did with my 67 minutes of community service.Regarding the homeless man, I must sadly report that he is still there, just moved around the corner now, and...
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Hooking and holidaying
At last, it was the winter holiday, but alas, no winter!I love the winter holidays. Three weeks of lying* in, or early-morning walks in crisp-cold air, hearty soup, my gran's souskluitjies, big,...
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Meanwhile, a wedding yarn bomb
In the absence of anything being completed in the vastness that is my WIP-collection, some ladies at my group Ons Hekel came to my rescue with a beautiful topic for today:A friend of theirs runs a...
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Meeting Marion - when Facebook comes to life
In the years BK (Before Kids), one of my joys was my monthly book club - an informal get-together of ten friends who'd each get a month to splurge R500 on books of her choice, which we then swopped...
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Crochet-Ideas
And one day, somebody wrote about my group.(That somebody is my virtual friend Ansie, whom I could happily meet once, and must be one of the most creative people I know. Have a look at her blog Sol y...
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To crochet a basketball net
I hit the crochet wall. As in dead-on.Not that there aren't enough on the hooks, or the lists or in my head! Maybe there are too much. Couldn't get myself to pick up TGRB, or the mezzaluna (it's...
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The Everyday 8 - Sentinel
Giant Aloe marlothii (up to 4m) guard the bushveld near Loskop Dam
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Klaar! Die Mezzaluna / Crescent Moon / Sekelmaanserp
Uiteindelik, uiteindelik...'n sekelmaanserp...en laat ek dadelik sê: dit is eintlik nié moeilik nie. Dit IS NIE...dis net die patroon wat eintlik omslagtig is. En as jy die patroon gekliek het, is dit...
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Yarn Indaba 2014
We were watching the countdown towards Yarndale with envy from here in South Africa...but trust the girls at One of a Kind Yarns to come up with...YARN INDABA 2014!!"Indaba" is a Zulu word, referring...
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Happily Mezzaluna-ing
Mezzaluna V2 is well under way and speeding towards the edge!Starting with short rows any moment now...This time it's going much quicker (although there seem to be more counting mistakes...).I'm using...
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The Everyday 9
This little roundabout get a new look every now and then, often linked to whatever is happening in the city/country.Snapped through the window while driving round and round and round...
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My favourite (Mzansi) yarns
When I took up crocheting a little more than 2 years ago, I knew very little of yarn. Didn't really notice the difference between DK and 4ply, acrylic crap and nice acrylic, not even talking about...
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On figuring out a summer throw
I need some advice here.The idea of a summer throw started brewing in my head shortly after the one of a Certain Uncompleted Great Romany Blanket.But it stayed there.Slowly I began gathering a few...
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