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My crochet - Looking forward
This post is part of Knitting and Crochet Blog Week 2014This is the third time that I'm looking back to where I started crocheting, what I've learnt, how my work developed, and it is always...
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My Mzansi 14/5 - Bush camp
at the farm with the tall treesa little boy's playground is open and widethere's a tame buffalo calf who comes when you call- she's a royal little thing -golden wildebeesta sable antelope with perfect...
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Slow and steady the tortoise was finished
My aunty D's tortoise potholders had to retire after a long hard-working life, and she wondered could I maybe crochet new ones?Looking a tad 'used-up'So I said I'd try, and trawled the net to find a...
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I'm a little snowflake
For the month of June, this will be my Facebook Cover Photo:I am also a snowflake. Not one of us look the same, our symptoms vary, like snowflakes!I was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis in 2009, after...
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My Mzansi 14/6 - In transit
It was Youth Day and we had a long weekend.Everybody was getting out, the highway was in shutdown.Egoli* (City of Gold) glistening in the setting sun*JohannesburgLater that night, we took a double-up...
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Crochet with a View
Now and then you'll see a photo that makes wish you took it.As when Ons Hekel-member Wendy Erasmus-Koutlis posted this:(have a look at her website)How to offset bright colours against a glorious...
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Done! The Snowflake Scarf
And the Snowflake Scarf is finished!(I promise it is not glow-in-the-dark green...but Blogger insists on uploading my perfectly normal aqua-teal-tiffany blue scarf with these greenish highlights).The...
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But which one shall I make?
I realised I'm living in total denial about the amount of work to be done before my sisi arrives from Ireland next week, that my boy needs to build a tower structure for school, that I have uncountable...
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This was Yarn Indaba 2014!
What a beautiful day! What a beautiful event.This was Yarn Indaba, and the yarn bombing of the Voortrekker Monument and today, I'll just share a few pictures of this great event. Those steps are...
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My Mzansi 14/8
Mosaics at/around the promenade and pier at UmhlangaImagine the crochet work that could be dreamed up from these:
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Buy An Afrikaans Book Day!
Today is Buy An Afrikaans Book Day!That's is not a very difficult thing for me to do. I am actually exempt from this by my reading group on Facebook, as I ... "invest heavily" in the Afrikaans book...
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Covering South Africa with blankets
Hooker (and knitters) in South Africa might remember 2014 as The Year of The Blanket Yarnbomb.orWhen We Covered South Africa With Blankets.We're still happily reminiscing about the Voortrekker Monument...
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Blog-hopping in Mzansi
The International Blog Hop has reached the capitol of the southern tip of Africa - thanks to Dorien of Just Do and local girl Anneke of Crochet in Paternoster (yes...we have a beautiful little town in...
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SpringStorming
No real spring storms yet, although Pretoria hit 32ºC yesterday! Wishing on rain, this dust is killing our sinuses.Meanwhile, we are spring-cleaning, house-clearing, decluttering - all in...
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Cobertor do bebê
At the school gates, the Portuguese avó and I don't understand much of each others' languages - her English is...broken and my Portuguese limited to bom dia and obrigado - but we both speak...
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Almost a Bohemian Bugger-up
When it's the end of a long, busy week, and you just made the 2hr drive with two lively boys to your aunt, and you're busy the whole weekend, and the little time you take to work on the Bohemian...
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My Mzansi 14/9 - Heritage Day and an Afrikaner boykie
They had to dress up in national or traditional dress, the letter from school said. It had to be proper and dignified, otherwise just plain uniform, no civvies. So this mom had to come up with a plan,...
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Of beanies and baby blankets
I had to make a quick change to the helmet beanie my littlest gave his friend - first he wanted a nose bridge thingey (didn't work out), then I convinced him of a visor/mouthguard combo, which was...
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Hookin' on a road trip, and a new coffee spot
Off we went on a road trip, and I was armed with my hooky project for the next two days. This baby blanket was going to be finished before the end of the weekend.As I said, I am not totally in love...
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When we crocheted in Morocco
No. We couldn't look on while they prepared for their Cool Crochet workshop in Marrakech. We wanted go come along!It's just a bit...far. And at least one long haul and another connecting flight...
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