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Archive for March, 2013


   Mar 27

New cards

I made 12 teacup cards tonight as a gift set. I copies the pattern from Jenn at the crop this past weekend. I need to find a pattern to make a box for the gift pack. I guess I will have to go to Pinterest 🙂 I also made a baby shower card with a […]

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   Mar 27

Another completed knitting project

Next dishcloth in the knitting series. Wool is a little different and I knitted in two directions to learn a new techniques. Less holes in this piece. Just going to stick to dishcloths for now.

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   Mar 25

My first crop

I attended my first crop in Kemptville this weekend. A crop is a group that get together to do scrap booking and card making. It was a great event. I made lots of cards, 2 scrapbook pages, did 3 workshops and got a big shot (for embossing and die cutting) and a heat embosser tool […]

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   Mar 13

Knitting dish cloth complete

I have completed my dish cloth, learned to cast on and cast off, pearl and knit. Completed dish cloth below. Also made a little project to practice pearling.

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   Mar 06

Learning to knit

Today I joined the healthy workplace knitting group at work. The group will be meeting every Tuesday in March to learn to do basic knitting. Today we learned to cast- on and how to the knit stitch. We will be making a dish cloth. The pattern is 40 knit stitches by 80 rows. I have […]

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   Mar 03

Criss-cross card

My first criss-cross card. Used the cupcake theme again. Below is a picture of the outside and inside.

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   Mar 03

Z fold

My first z fold card on an angle. Multiple pictures since it is hard to capture in photos.

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