Image Details: “{11} The view from the cot”, by scribbletaylor, via Flickr Now you may be as surprised as me to discover that it is really hard to find anything on Google to tell me the origin of the baby mobile. I can buy swathes of horrid plastic mobiles in varying price ranges from seemingly…
Read MoreImage Details: ‘Baby girl album’ by jerseygal2009, via Flickr. Things have been a little quiet on the crafting front at Shinybees HQ for the past couple of weeks since a special delivery on 28th March, when the Babybee came crashing into the world. Whilst she is a good model for my booties, I simply haven’t…
Read MoreImage Details: ‘Birthday cake’ by 3liz4, via Flickr So, there was a birthday at Shinybees HQ last week. Birthdays are always good news, because they generally involve cake and presents (and we’ll ignore the whole getting older bit in a blur of gin induced happiness) and I had plenty of both, minus the gin, unfortunately….
Read MoreImage Details: ‘counter on a zipper’ by pinprick, via Flickr The knitting row counter is a device for keeping tally of how many rows have been completed when hand knitting. It can also be used to track the number of increases and decreases made during a pattern. The first on-needle knitting row counters were seen…
Read MoreImage Details: ‘Speaker Cone’ by the justified sinner, via Flickr Crafting is one of those pastimes whereby it makes it hard to do anything else at the same time. Unless you’re doing a million rows of stocking stitch or something else equally mindless, you are going to end up cocking something up if you try…
Read MoreImage Details: ‘Ducking Stool’ by kamsininjapan, via Flickr The Medieval period of the Middle Ages was a violent and blood thirsty time, but they sure knew how to do torture! Far from just being sent to ‘sit on the naughty chair’, the ducking stool was punishment taken to a whole new level. A punishment specifically…
Read MoreImage Details: ‘Hoodie’ by Davharuk, via Flickr Nowadays, the humble hoodie, rather than being a utilitarian item of clothing, is often villified as the uniform of choice for the feral ‘yoof’ of Britain. This reputation is perhaps a little unfair: yes, a lot of young people choose to wear one, but then so does my…
Read More…with woodchip on the wall Image details: ‘Woodchip & Pencil’ by monikahoinkis, via Flickr I like Common People. Just not woodchip. It’s the most evil stuff known to man. I have no idea why anyone would ever think it stylish or even useful. I consider it to be a crime against humanity. It’s certainly an…
Read MoreWe got fun n games! But this post has nothing to do with Axl Rose and co and everything to do with Shinybabytobee’s latest and coolest handmade gift to date – a Kenana ‘Knitter Critter’ Lion. This was a gift from one of the Stitchettes at Knit Club (who may or may not have ‘outed’…
Read MoreImage details – knitted cake by freeformbyprudence, via Flickr Don’t talk about Knit Club! I think I might get this made up into a slogan t-shirt, along with ‘Knitting is not just for Nanas’ or some other suitably informative knitting-related cliches. There is a clandestine ‘stitch and bitch’ going on in the Chateau Shinybees locality,…
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