Tag: WIP

  • Adrawingaday project, number 7

    Adrawingaday project, number 7

    Adrawingaday sketches and ink drawings. Self-portraits, pin-ups, surrealism, reverse mermaids and some flowers that look suspiciously like vulvas.

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  • Homebrewing and foraging rosehip wine

    Homebrewing and foraging rosehip wine

    Rosehip wine brewed at home I think ‘rose hip wine’ has to be the most adventurous of the foraged wine making I have attempted so far. The must has now been racked and the cereal-y smell created throughout the fermenting process has now dissipated from the kitchen. I have been making so much wine over the summer, and

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  • Sketches from the #adrawingaday project (round 2)

    Sketches from the #adrawingaday project (round 2)

    A drawing a day is progressing well. Still drawing on sticker blanks for #adrawingaday, a regular and simple project for sharpening drawing skills and also, unwinding at the end of the day. While I can’t noticeably see an improvement, hopefully I will be able to look back on this documentation and see it in the fullness of time.

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  • Crochet leather sole soft boots, crocodile stitch tops

    Crochet leather sole soft boots, crocodile stitch tops

    Crochet leather sole soft boots I have recently completed a pair of crocheted, leather soled soft boots to wear around the house. I created a pattern for them as I was working, and there is definitely quite a lot of tweaks to happen before I will be happy posting it. One of the main things

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  • Making crocheted earmuffs for winter, Part Three

    Making crocheted earmuffs for winter, Part Three

    Making crochet earmuffs for the winter chill Welcome to Part Three of my crochet earmuff tutorial! In Part One, I wrote about creating the crochet body, which the crochet petals are worked onto. In Part Two, I discussed how to go about making those petals. Part Three is about bringing it all together, to create

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  • Making earmuffs using crochet, Part Two

    Making earmuffs using crochet, Part Two

    Making crochet earmuffs how-to, Part Two To save my sanity (pattern writing gets very tedious) I have broken up this post into three parts. Part One (making earmuffs for the winter chill) which includes the ingredients, can be found by following this link. The stitch list Chain stitch (ch) Slip stitch (sl st) Single crochet (sc) Single

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  • Making earmuffs for the winter chill, Part One

    Making earmuffs for the winter chill, Part One

    Making earmuffs to keep the cold out of my head I don’t know how everyone else does it in the northern hemisphere in winter. I swear, the cold blows straight into the part of my brain that gets a brain-freeze, and shortly after, I develop a headache. So I made a pair off earmuffs this

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