Karen's Craft Odyssey

Today Alan and Frank played games all day (Frank’s choice of games-
that was Alan’s Christmas gift to Frank).
So, while the boys were occupied I got to work on my next weaving
project. I’m making napkins as a sample for some blouse fabric. As the
pattern takes all eight shafts and one shaft doesn’t work properly on
my table [...]

I’ve been participating in a tea cosy swap through the Australian Knitters group on Ravelry. Here’s what I sent off to my secret pal. Today I received a package from Leonie in Melbourne with my new tea cosy. And it’s gorgeous, isn’t it?

And so many goodies!

The package had a Japanese theme [...]

After dreaming up with several potential posts in my head over the last fortnight, I’ve finally actually sat down at the computer to draft something.
I have way too many projects going at the moment — and I keep starting more.
One project is organising a group rug/blanket for Spinners — to be raffled on Open Day. [...]

It’s been a long day, but I feel as if I haven’t accomplished much. First off, the pool guy came to tell us why our pool pump keeps losing its prime. Looks like the culprit is a palm tree some idiot a prior owner planted right behind the skimmer box (and over the [...]