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[Lorcan]

I mean, I also can't sew, bake, knit, crochet...but I can do macramé? Although I don't have the patience for it anymore lol.

Edit: I used to work with size 8 crochet thread, for those of you who'd know what that means....and therefore would understand why patience for that would be a must.

 

[alpacasqueak]

Edit: I used to work with size 8 crochet thread, for those of you who'd know what that means....and therefore would understand why patience for that would be a must.

Nope, no clue on that one either! I love this thread and seeing all the brilliant stuff you all make (and bake!) but I’m pretty useless with this stuff!

 

[Lorcan]

Nope, no clue on that one either! I love this thread and seeing all the brilliant stuff you all make (and bake!) but I’m pretty useless with this stuff!

So the orange thread is 1mm knotting cord (I use it, 1.5mm and 2mm thread in the braided bracelets). The grey thread below it is size 8 crochet thread. I used to make knotted bracelets, 5" of knotted length, out of double half hitch knots with that grey thread. Total glutton for punishment!

 

[Merab]

I'll teach you - I've not failed yet and I love a good challenge!

She said that to me too @alpacasqueak !

 

[Merab]

When I was at college I had an arrangement with one of my friends.
If I bought wool she knitted me jumpers and I cooked for us on Saturdays when there were no meals in college.
We were both happy - I love to cook and she loved to knit

 

[GPTV]

Nope, no clue on that one either! I love this thread and seeing all the brilliant stuff you all make (and bake!) but I’m pretty useless with this stuff!

I'm with you generally on this one

So the orange thread is 1mm knotting cord (I use it, 1.5mm and 2mm thread in the braided bracelets). The grey thread below it is size 8 crochet thread. I used to make knotted bracelets, 5" of knotted length, out of double half hitch knots with that grey thread. Total glutton for punishment!

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Again it looks like the kind of craft that I would turn into knots of the bad kind, along with macrame, knitting & crochet. It's way over my skill set You make some lovely bracelets

She said that to me too @alpacasqueak !

Think @Betsy took one look at me & never offered... There's a challenge & then there's impossible! xx

 

[Bill & Ted]

I'm sewing theses face masks as my way of helping out, during the wars the women would knit,socks, scars and balaclavas for those on the front lines.

My grandad used to knit his own socks, he was in the WW1, maybe they got taught?

 

[Betsy]

Think @Betsy took one look at me & never offered... There's a challenge & then there's impossible! xx

You never asked!

She said that to me too @alpacasqueak !

When have I had the chance to teach you? If we manage to come and see you in a few weeks I can teach you then if the Social Distancing has ended that is cos I'll have to sit closer to you than 2 metres! I'll bring a spare set of needles and some wool.

 

[alpacasqueak]

Looks like @Betsy will be starting a class when this is all over then!
Where’s in the middle of us all to meet?!

 

[Siikibam]

Looks like @Betsy will be starting a class when this is all over then!
Where’s in the middle of us all to meet?!

Can I come along as well? Please!

 

[Betsy]

Can I come along as well? Please!

You gonna be teaching at this class to then?

 

[Siikibam]

You gonna be teaching at this class to then?

I can try

you know you could do a video now actually

 

[Sweet Potato]

ooooh a knitting class! can I come I've only ever been able to do a normal stitch I can cast on and cast off by myself but I'm stuck knitting a variety of rectangles.

 

[Siikibam]

ooooh a knitting class! can I come I've only ever been able to do a normal stitch I can cast on and cast off by myself but I'm stuck knitting a variety of rectangles.

You can practise just the knit stitch. It makes garter stitch.

 

[alpacasqueak]

I can try

you know you could do a video now actually

Sounds good!
Do you think it’d work with breadsticks, got them in at the moment!?

 

[Siikibam]

Sounds good!
Do you think it’d work with breadsticks, got them in at the moment!?

You may accidentally eat them or they’d disintegrate as you entered the stitch - then drop the stitches

 

[alpacasqueak]

You may accidentally eat them or they’d disintegrate as you entered the stitch - then drop the stitches

Yeah think it’d be the munching, I like a nice breadstick!

 

[Bill & Ted]

You can practise just the knit stitch. It makes garter stitch.

That’s alright if you wear lots of garters!

 

[Merab]

You never asked!


When have I had the chance to teach you? If we manage to come and see you in a few weeks I can teach you then if the Social Distancing has ended that is cos I'll have to sit closer to you than 2 metres! I'll bring a spare set of needles and some wool.

We could use longer needles!

 

[Swissgreys]

I have been making lots of masks, and needed to do something different, so today I made myself a new pair of work trousers.
I am super happy with how they turned out - really comfortable and the fit is perfect.
Plus they make me smile.



And just to make it perfectly clear I work from home (most of the time).
But I would actually be perfectly happy wearing these out and about to be honest.

 

[Swissgreys]

And @Siikibam I did finish the quilt, and I love how it turned out.
My daughter loved it too, and said it was the best birthday present ever.

Photos will follow.

 

[Merab]

Those trousers look lovely

 

[Lorcan]

My mum kept getting annoyed with my hitting keypad buttons with my ear. "But ma, I needed both hands free!"

 

[GPTV]

I have been making lots of masks, and needed to do something different, so today I made myself a new pair of work trousers.
I am super happy with how they turned out - really comfortable and the fit is perfect.
Plus they make me smile.

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And just to make it perfectly clear I work from home (most of the time).
But I would actually be perfectly happy wearing these out and about to be honest.

They look lovely free flowing & comfy, I'm trying to work out what the pattern is... Is it koalas? I can only see it on my small phone screen.
Looks a lovely tidy drop under the waistband & around the ankle cuffs. X

 

[GPTV]

... I'm not great at making fruit cake, but I do make a yummy sponge cake, although it's a lot easier (& I prefer eating it , so mistakes don't matter )

I used to enjoy decorating cakes, so I guess I'm better at decorating them than baking them, although I haven't done any for ages as my fingers now have a mind of their own after a few operations

I'll see if I can dig out a few cake pictures.

I did this one for my dad when he got his first, second hand ribbon typewriter - I think I was about 12?


A few years later with royal icing & I made the santa, sleigh & reindeer out of marzipan.


One of my first attempts at fondant icing.


My photography mad, brothers birthday cake - he's a chocolate fiend! I made the chocolate sponge with all butter, extra cocoa&a splash of cream - it was like the old 'death by chocolate' gateau!


My cousin's daughters' 20 inch sponge, christening cake


Chocolate & vanilla chequerboard cake. A work colleague said she'd never had a birthday cake! I was gobsmacked, so treated her to this fondant coated cake


A basic royal icing Christmas cake with marzipan bear & candle


My Gran loved Christmas wreaths, so I royal iced this for her.

 

[GPTV]

My mum's mother's day cake - we were meant to be having a meal, but my gran got rushed into hospital so I made this alternative meal instead.



Just a random fondant birthday cake.


Trying out a new royal iced technique


My parents silver wedding anniversary royal iced cake- a few years ago - I was 17 when I did this


My grandad apparently made a sloping sleigh cake, this was my inspiration from it.
The cake & sloping border shelf was royal iced. I made the (hollow) cabin & reindeer bodies out of marzipan, the tree & antlers were chocolate & all the extra trimmings were piped royal icing (even Santa's bum&legs sticking out of the chimney!)

I think this was one of my all time favourites

 

[Bill & Ted]

Amazing cakes, bet they taste as good as they look, can’t bake cakes, they turn out like fat biscuits!

 

[GPTV]

They say 'the proof of the pudding is in the eating' so as long as they taste good it doesn't matter

Amazing cakes, bet they taste as good as they look, can’t bake cakes, they turn out like fat biscuits!

I'm not great at baking fruit cakes, most of the fruit cakes here my mum would bake (I cheated) & then I'd ice afterwards. I'll happily knock up a quick sponge cake though. The size of tin for the amount of cake mix makes a huge difference to the success of cakes.

I did forget to put glycerin in the royal icing one year - nearly burnt out an electric knife & broke everyones teeth! Jeepers that was hard! Lol!

 

[Lorcan]

So, had a conversation with my mother earlier and she asked if I'd be interested in trying sewing. So I pointed out that not only would I not know where to start but I'm not about to just go out and buy a sewing machine.
"Oh you could have my old Jones machine - it only does straight stitch and zig zag and only goes forward or back so it's not particularly complicated."

Now she insists she'll bring it over sometime, which is interesting because, you know, there's a sea in the way and everything, but I figured I'd mention it to the people who know more about sewing than I do - which is you lovely people. Would it be worth it?

 

[Betsy]

Haven't a clue sorry @Lorcan me and the sewing machine fell out a long time ago! Give me a pair of knitting needles well ....