I <3 Vintage China

I have a love for old China, but not the storage, so I still only have what I've had for decades. Don't you just love Dutch rabbits? Found these 3" bunnies at the local nursery, the doily was a rescue from an antique shop and the dinnerware is Mason's Brown Bows transferware I inherited. Also…

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Tea and Roses

A new tea cozy for the teapot. This one is made of 2 granny squares to fit each side, then seamed in anyway I could come up with to keep the 2 pieces together. The rose in a Irish rose, free patterns for this are everywhere online. I had the teapot on my desk the…

A new teapot

I've been having tea more lately, and honey. Ending a rut of making tea how mom did, with Tetley, milk and sugar. Not sure if I even liked it, but I guess it was just what was familiar. While shopping with a friend in downtown Raleigh, there was a small window we passed that caught…

Charcoal Cabled Hat

For a cold weather trip to Beufort, NC back in December - brrr.... what were we thinking? Beaufort is a quaint gem of a town kind of frozen in time. So many historic homes, they're all white, and the annual holiday home tour is a real treat. The pattern is the Gingerbread Hat by Angel…

Spice Cake, a Rhinebeck Souvenir

There was an email from the Indie Untangled Trunk Show for Rhinebeck offering up a delicious colorway of a neutral wool with POPS of orange and hints of violet and blue - it was so special, I had to order it. Yarn: La Bien Aimée Merino Singles Colorway: Automne A Rhinebeck It had to be…

Another Cabled Hat

Don't you just love cables? I sure do! I have no idea why either. I've made the Plaits and Pines hat before, so you may have seen it already in my Ravelry projects. That time I held yarn double, but never again for cables. It made things more fidgety and slowed me down a little…

Promenade Scarf

What a GREAT free pattern! I had no idea how I could use up just 1 skein of bulky, and this turned out perfect. Mine is Malabrigo Mecha in Piedras. Love the many colors in this colorway, but how it's not overwhelming. The buttons were found at Joann's and what a deal at $3.00. Come…