The Solstice Quilt, Part 1


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The Champagne and Socks Podcast is live.

Episode 0: Introduction

In which I introduce myself and the podcast. Champagne and Socks will be a twice-weekly podcast of approx 5 minute episodes about all things craft.

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Galactic Suburbia

Twelfth Planet Press

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One of the first projects I had to finish off when I started working though my knitting WIPs were these mug hugs. I’d had the idea to make them for the end of year Galactic Suburbia Papyrus readers soon after we started our Patreon.


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Here is a recently finished object. It wasn’t the next thing finished in order for my Resolutions list because the next one cannot be spoken about yet!

Finished Hoek shawl

A photo posted by Alisa (@girliejonesadventures) on Dec 31, 2014 at 1:55am PST

The Hoek Shawl. Sigh. The Hoek Shawl. This is actually my second knitted Hoek Shawl - ( Read more... )

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Today's coffee cup from Five Senses

A photo posted by Alisa (@girliejonesadventures) on Dec 12, 2014 at 7:22pm PST

In a very odd turn of events, I gave up instant coffee in December. It wasn’t really planned in advance. I think I might have thought about it fleetingly when I ran out of instant coffee the jar before and replaced it but this ( Read more... )

I’m going to track all the things I complete this year (did you notice yet that I’m cheating and making 2015 13 months?) for easy reference. It’ll serve as a contradiction to the “I never get anything done/finished” mantra. Feeling productive, and being productive, it seems, are two different things.

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Open doors

A photo posted by Alisa (@girliejonesadventures) on Dec 12, 2014 at 1:45am PST

In a nice case of multitasking I finally got round to organising my craft space.

In order to be able to do an inventory of what projects I have in progress (aka WIPs) and what projects I would like to get to or am excited about starting or having ( Read more... )

Open doors

A photo posted by Alisa (@girliejonesadventures) on Dec 12, 2014 at 1:45am PST

In a nice case of multitasking I finally got round to organising my craft space.

In order to be able to do an inventory of what projects I have in progress (aka WIPs) and what projects I would like to get to or am excited about starting or having ( Read more... )

Posting around here has stalled because of a particular post I’m writing. If you can’t go through, go around, yeah? So instead, here is the list of 2013 Resolutions that I’m going to be working off in 2015 (and 2015 started Dec 2014…)

Here’s the list I wrote in 2013:

1. Learn to focus on the positive not the negative
2. Lose 5-8kg
3. Develop daily regimen
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