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The Summer Throw (cont.) - Plan D & E
What happened then with the Summer Throw...I looked at one or two other possible joinings, three or four other possible squares, and then went back to one printed out almost a year ago: the Mount...
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Heritage Day 2014
Today we celebrated Heritage Day in South Africa, a day I wrote about last year as well.Today we celebrated many aspects of our heritage:We spent time with our chosen family: friends visiting from Cape...
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Crochet a rhino
Heidi Bears (she of the brilliant African Flower Tutorial fame) has come up with a beautiful rhino design, in African Flowers.Image: http://heidibearscreative.blogspot.comFind the pattern on Ravely and...
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Klaar! Mezzaluna No 2
The second Mezzaluna is done!This is kind of like Attic 24's Neat Ripple pattern...you so desperately want to do it, then swear continuously while frogging hooking frogging hooking, counting counting...
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Of crochet fights and retail therapy
Pre-script ; Heavily edited, numerous times, and held back, but I need to vent, so here goes:Are you fighting the same battle?I had a bitter few days on my crochet group last week.I found solace in...
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Bellbottoms
And meanwhile, while I'm contemplating which WIP to pick up (almost done with an unplanned washcloth series) - a look at one of my absolute most favourite shops in the whole whole whole world ever. My...
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The Everyday 10 - My Jacaranda City
Early morning walkabout - jacarandas are falling after the first summer rains
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The Everyday 10 (Cont.)
Yesterday I posted a photo of our jacarandas dropping.My city is a beautiful, purple sight to beholdSkies are clearing after a couple of days of welcome spring rain.The streets are lined with brilliant...
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On a washcloth trip
Busy procastinating again.While there's a summer throw waiting to be completed, and a green cardi to tackle, I have been making washcloths.Yes, absolutely logical What else to do with the little...
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I Love Yarn!
Yes, I do :-)But it is also the name of a new online shop two friends of mine opened TODAY, with all kinds of beautiful and wonderful available. I keep repeating myself, but I love it when my online...
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On crazy, wonderful life in Mzansi
Once in a while, a new blog comes past that is just so absolutely delightful, humorous, sharp (that's Mzansi for witty), that you just have to share it with others.Today, it is The Disco Pants Blog. I...
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Road Trippin'
What arrived in South Africa today, courtesy of my sis on a blitz-visit from Ireland!Lets go camping!My sis tipped me off to Kate's blog and I started following their family's road trip around half of...
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Roadtrippin' (2) - Of some crochet, a wedding and two sides of a battlefield
My sis's friend was getting married and in a flash we decided: why not come down for the weekend? That is now - from Ireland to South Africa.She did it to a day exactly 10 years ago as well, when our...
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The Everyday (11) - Stormy summer nights
Storm clouds building up. We have terrific, electric thunderstorms in Gauteng.The Christmas tree is in the shape of a baobab, around the corner of one of my favourite coffee shops, Tribeca Standard,...
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Coffee and crochet @ Karoo Café
I was shuffling dates around for a last crochet & coffee for the year, to hook squares for Yarn Indaba, when my sis's visit came up. Having attending two previous Craft Shares on the very days she...
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Help is needed, real help
Terwyl ek wroeg oor Eerste Wêreld-probleme soos watter hekelprojekte om saam te neem op vakansie, die sukkel met die nuwe foon, watter Boobi Brown-oogskadu om te kies, is daar mense wat swoeg met Regte...
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To crochet with T-string
The last couple of months, a new craze exploded on Ons Hekel. And who do we have to blame?Creative, productive OH-member Anneke Wiese, who also happens to live in one of the prettiest places on...
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Living History
I don't have a very 'glamorous' family history in terms of buccaneering, rebelling, inventing, Great Trekkers and the like, just a couple of mainly Dutchmen who got on the ship to Kaap de Goede Hoop,...
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My Mzansi (12) - Our Madiba has died
"I think...he would want us to be his memorial" - Desmond TutuPhoto - South African Crafters for Good, FacebookMy Madiba Moment -http://www.haak-en-stekie.blogspot.com/2013/07/my-madiba-moment.htmlSix...
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Living history
I don't have a very 'glamorous' family history in terms of buccaneering, rebelling, inventing, Great Trekkers and the like, just a couple of mainly Dutchmen who got on the ship to Kaap de Goede Hoop,...
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