tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69714069940349717522024-03-12T20:54:32.021-07:00... Sophie Sew & SewSophie Sew and Sewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239036080576211563noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971406994034971752.post-62298315228195891842014-02-25T12:19:00.002-08:002014-02-25T12:19:57.834-08:00Bunting feverUnfortunately, I have nothing to report as I am buried in lab reports, dissertation and research project. Just a few pictures of pretty, personalised bunting I have been making.<br />
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<br />Sophie Sew and Sewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239036080576211563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971406994034971752.post-71984480174902693742014-01-30T04:34:00.005-08:002014-01-30T06:28:22.781-08:00I declare myself a 'procrastiknitter'<div style="text-align: justify;">
Well, what a start to 2014. I apologise for not blogging in so long; Christmas got in the way (more about that in a minute) and then January madness, back to University with looming lab report deadlines, Dissertation, presentations, Honours Project, exams... (are you stressed just reading this?!) </div>
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You might be thinking 'why is she blogging instead of doing University work?' and the answer is... 'procrastination'. It is a global phenomenon, not just a student illness! Are you reading this when you should really be doing work, laundry, dishes... etc etc? They can wait until the end of this; I promise some nice pictures soon!</div>
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I will start with my Christmas story...</div>
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Arriving home was nice because my Uncle is a feeder and conveniently they only live around the corner - winner for my tummy! Unfortunately, my little brother started feeling ill in the weeks before Christmas and stayed off school with me as Mum had to work. She is an estate agent and apparently Christmas is manic for house buyers and sellers, who could be bothered with the stress? Anyway, I digress... back to my brother, Freddie. The poor little mite started complaining of stomach pains (I will spare you the rest of the gory details) and I had to carry him from his bed to the living room and bring him everything but he isn't usually one to complain so I didn't mind. The end of a very long story and a hurried visit to the emergency doctor: he had appendicitis. Off we went to the hospital one evening and after blood tests and a loooong wait they decided to keep him in overnight and operate the next day. During this waiting time I fainted and woke up in a bed on the children's ward with dinosaur stickers on the wall, a very confusing experience! My blood sugar was low so I had a few biscuits and some chocolate and was fine. </div>
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The surgeons operated, only to find a very large, very necrotic appendix and they were amazed at how brave Freddie had been whilst they were prodding and poking him the previous day. The next few days involved lots of trips to and fro between the hospital, home and Auntie and Uncle's house. I also completed all the Christmas shopping the day before Christmas Eve then went to collect Mum and Freddie from the hospital in the evening to bring them home. Two of the surgeons had a bet that Freddie wouldn't be out for Christmas day and were amazed when he came out. All was well and we had a lovely Christmas Day.</div>
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Bethany, Freddie and myself on Christmas Day</div>
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Boxing Day I began my drive to Eglwysbach in Wales for a second Christmas. My other half, Tom, and his family have been doing up an old pub (lots to come on that at a later date) in Eglwysbach called 'The Bee Inn'. It looks lovely now and I would definitely recommend a visit! My second Christmas was much calmer than the first; a very welcome break. Below is a cork board which I made for Tom's parents as a Christmas Gift. All corks used were collected from the wines drunk at Tom's house in the previous months... Rioja is a favourite! </div>
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New year's Eve was one with mixed feelings - I was in Wales and due to go to a house party when Freddie was admitted back into hospital with a fever, infection and fluid in his abdomen. I was assured he would be fine and celebrated the coming of 2014.</div>
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And that brings us to now...</div>
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The beginning of January involved lots of University work and am currently taking a break from writing my Dissertation to blog. In the previous weeks I have done some sewing, baking and knitting in between lectures and working in the library. </div>
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These cute pink and cream candy stripe mittens are a result of my 'procrastiknitting'... do you like?</div>
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Personalised bunting - very cute!</div>
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A delicious Devil's food cake.</div>
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If you have reached this point, congratulations for surviving and thankyou ever so much!</div>
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Whilst feeling festive last night I decided I wanted to make something other than a tree decoration. As a child I never had a stocking so I decided that would be perfect to make. Armed with my cereal box (to make a template), felt, embroidery thread and needle I set to work...</div>
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In my opinion, there is nothing cuter for Christmas than blanket stitch... would you agree?</div>
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I drew a stocking template on my cereal box, several times might I add; I just couldn't get the right amount of 'curviness'. However, I am happy with the final shape, especially the heel and toe patches.</div>
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The idea for lettering came from looking at a picture in a magazine where there were several stockings hanging on a fireplace and each had a name on. When I'm older and have a house and a family I will definitely be doing that! I wanted to try it out with a simple letter shape, but one that could also be used to give as a gift (providing it turned out okay)... so, T for Tom.</div>
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The actual colours are a forest green, red and white but my mobile phone camera filter didn't quite do the colours justice so here is one with no filter.</div>
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I have been waiting until it is officially December to post pictures of my Christmas decorations! How exciting? This is just a quick post to show you some of my designs... there ill be more in the coming days! I'd love to know your thoughts on them and hear any ideas you have of more that I could make. Leave me a comment in the comments section :) </div>
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Christmas pudding... I hate the taste but they look so cute!</div>
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Ginger the gingerbread lady, I'm working on a special boyfriend for her.</div>
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Here is a sneak peak of my ripple blanket colour scheme... What do you think?! I was too excited to show you all so i took this without any natural light so the colours are a little off :( </div>
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Last week I tried my hand at hot water crust pastry to make pork pies, they were a resounding success! This morning Tom and I decided to get festive; we made chicken and stuffing pies. For dinner last night I roasted a small chicken and four chicken thighs, we ate the breasts and the rest was left for pies.</div>
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1) Prepare the filling by cutting up your meat and combining in a bowl with stuffing. Get your hands in and give it a good mix.</div>
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3) Cut the lard into cubes and add to the water, heat on the hob until the lard melts.</div>
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6) Roll the dough out on a floured work surface to about 5mm thickness, cut circles for cases and smaller circles for lids. (I used a cereal bowl for the cases and a glass for the lids)</div>
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These chicken and stuffing ones truly taste like Christmas, we even have cranberry sauce to dribble over them. I'd love to hear what you put in your pies and I would especially love to see pictures... please leave a link to your blog in the comments section.</div>
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Whilst the pies were cooking, I cleaned the kitchen and made DIPPY EGGS!!! you are never too old for dippy eggs. To stop any confusion dippy eggs are soft boiled eggs with toast soldiers. I even found a Milkybar kid egg cup with cowboy hat to go with it.</div>
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Dippy eggs are a far cry from my Christmas day breakfast. Tom enjoys croissants with bacon, stilton and cranberry sauce with Prosecco on Christmas day, my family opts for sausage butties and a bottle of Stella... you can tell who is Northern!</div>
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The weather is utterly miserable today which made photography a bit difficult; I had to line these up right next to the window to get any natural light on them.</div>
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When this lovely lot grow up they are going to be a Ripple blanket :) I will be using and adapting this <a href="http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/neat-ripple-pattern.html" target="_blank">pattern</a> from <a href="http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/" target="_blank">Attic 24</a> and if my blanket turns out half as nice I will be so pleased.</div>
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I wanted the same yarn as I am using for my granny square blanket (Rico essentials 365 aran) but the colour range isn't as vast; this is Rico essentials cotton dk. They were purchased from <a href="http://www.deramores.com/" target="_blank">Deramores</a> on Sunday evening and have arrived this morning (Tuesday), I am very impressed with their service. Congratulations <a href="http://www.deramores.com/" target="_blank">Deramores</a>!</div>
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The colours I bought (left to right in picture) are:<br />
1 - Cardinal (84)<br />
2 - Silver (03)<br />
3 - Blue Green (42)<br />
4 - Mauve (17)<br />
5 - Dusky Rose (19)<br />
6 - Burgundy (00)<br />
7 - Aqua (95)<br />
8 - Anthracite (28)<br />
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Also sneaking in the picture, my giraffe slippers. A Christmas present last year and I love them! I always wear them in my flat, today they will be helping me through a very extensive lab report I have to write. So I need to put down all this lovely yarn, get out of creative mode, into scientist mode and write all about drugs I have been analysing. Wish me luck... xSophie Sew and Sewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239036080576211563noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971406994034971752.post-62076127322302321442013-11-15T05:17:00.001-08:002013-11-15T05:17:38.496-08:00All creatures great and small...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Mini pygmy goat, I don't know if this is Cookie or Crumble.</div>
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A view across the fields on a crisp Sunday afternoon.</div>
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Cookie and Crumble playing in the field.</div>
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My sister with a normal sized horse and Dolly, the mini Shetland pony.</div>
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Dolly's mum, Donna.</div>
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I have got in the Movember spirit by crocheting this moustache... brilliant for women (and those males who can't grow a moustache) to show their support for this fantastic cause and raise awareness.</div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">This is not my pattern, the original pattern can be found <a href="http://bubblegirlknitandcrochet.wordpress.com/2012/03/12/mug-cozy-pattern/" target="_blank">here</a>. I have simply translated the pattern from US to UK crochet terminology.</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The one I have made uses scraps of Rico cotton so it is easy to chuck in the washing machine to get rid of all the drip stains. It keeps my cup looking cute and my coffee warm.</span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Pattern (UK crochet terminology)</span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Ch 8.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Rep Row 2 until work measures 8 inches from beginning.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">You will now be working on these 4 stitches to make button hole strip.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Rep last row until button hole strip measures 2″.</span></div>
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As mentioned previously, I have revised the pattern I made for baby mittens. The other evening a new pair were cast on in yellow and a dusky purple (Sirdar snuggly baby wool, I can't find the labels)... and here is a sneak peek!</div>
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Good luck! Not too much though; I have my eye on it ;) haha. xSophie Sew and Sewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239036080576211563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971406994034971752.post-78366217964827393752013-11-04T02:12:00.001-08:002013-11-04T02:12:08.544-08:00Busy, busy baker<div style="text-align: justify;">
I have been meaning to write a post for a while now but I just didn't have anything crafty to write about. I didn't want to bore you with details of my life: get up, go to uni, go to library, make dinner, go to sleep. Unfortunately, since learning to crochet last month I have developed an acute granny square addiction so any crafty time has been spent doing those.</div>
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With the lack of variety craft-wise I have been doing a bit of baking. A few weeks ago I made mini victoria sandwich cakes which were a massive hit! So when I asked Tom what he would like me to bake yesterday he requested those again but I also wanted to try something a little different... I decided on apricot chelsea buns. </div>
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I used the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chelsea_buns_01576" target="_blank">Paul Hollywood recipe</a> as I have never made dough before. I added apricots, raspberry jam and chunks of chocolate. They turned out very well but I will probably omit the chocolate next time because the chunks poking out look a bit burnt.</div>
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Aside from a lovely weekend of baking (and not so lovely uni work), Tom and I took a little trip on the train to Southport. It was freezing cold, windy and raining but we had a fab day! We went to watch Southport v Cambridge because one of Tom's friends currently plays football for Cambridge and he managed to get us some tickets. </div>
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I really love the shabby chic, neutral design. Unfortunately, they require the use of a staple gun which has rendered me quite unpopular in the flat... whoooops. Does that count as an occupational hazard? HaHa.</div>
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I haven't posted for a few days, it has been pretty busy with University work and working in the bar, but I have crammed some good things in. Tom called by my flat the other day and told me he had a present for me!! He was caught by the caretaker trying to bring it into my building and was sent back outside... I was very intrigued when he rang me to come down and meet him. 'What did he get you?!' I hear you ask?... a pony? a puppy?...</div>
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He thought I could make something with it, n'aaawhhhh. Cute thought. Unfortunately, I live in a Liverpool City Centre flat on the third floor with no room for a pallet. BUT one day I will have space to make wooden crafts *sigh*. Back to the skip the pallet went.</div>
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The same day we also made pie and crumble. Steak and stilton pie with apple and pear crumble. Delicious! With Tom's culinary background in a North Wales restaurant and my love of eating we make a good team.</div>
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I lost my voice at work on Saturday (too much singing) and had to resort to mouthing at customers into the wee hours of the morning. Luckily, I had Sunday off... the first Sunday off in ages and it was not wasted. Tom and I went for dinner with his parents who came over for the day. We started off in a little Irish pub near my flat, called Shenanigans.</div>
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My favourite features are the chandeliers designed to look like Antlers. Above is a view from the restaurant with the bar on the ground floor.</div>
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We had warm bread rolls accompanied by chilli jam and sundried tomato flavoured olive oils. Sunday dinner didn't last long enough for me to take a picture of it; I remembered half way through. Thinly sliced pink beef, Yorkshire pudding, the crispiest roast potatoes I've ever eaten, baby carrots, minted peas and cabbage and pancetta. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Some of you may have seen the innocent smoothie hats previously, well, they are back!! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">You can visit </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><a href="http://thebigknit.co.uk/">http://thebigknit.co.uk</a> and knit your own. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">As many as 24,000 older people die needlessly because of the cold every winter. Many others spend the time lonely and isolated, unable to heat their homes and struggling to get out and about.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">So ten years ago we had an idea. We asked some older people, and some younger people, to knit little woolly hats. We put those hats on our smoothies, and for each one sold we made a donation to Age UK.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">This post is coming to you from the library. (shhh!) Unfortunately, the post title is to do with my very painful wisdom tooth rather than the font of knowledge which this library is turning me into!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Yesterday I attended a careers fair, being asked 'so what do you want to do with your life?' mutliple times was horrible. There is a specific place I want to work upon graduation but the job propects were few and far between. I checked their website again yesterday and found the perfect job role! Tonight will be designated to knitting and filling in this job application. My degree and year working in a fingerprint laboratory still leaves me underqualified but if I get to interview stage I will be delighted. fingers crossed!</span></div>
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Sophie Sew and Sewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239036080576211563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971406994034971752.post-42688983505506530552013-10-08T02:53:00.003-07:002013-10-10T08:22:39.064-07:00Pitter patter of tiny feet wearing little knitted bootiesThe title of this post may be a bit misleading; Mum, if you are reading this, don't panic... you won't be a Grandma at 42!<br />
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It is nearly coming up to my one year knitting birthday (start of December, more to come on my knitting discovery at a later date) which means I haven't had very long to develop my skills. I enjoyed making little things because they were easy, quick and CUTE.<br />
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Many people who I was at school with are having babies at the moment which made me decide to create my own baby set knitting pattern. I created a simple pattern consisting of booties, mittens and a hat which enabled me to make custom orders which I have been taking online.<br />
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The first ever set I sold is about to be put to use because mummy is past her due date!! eeeek! I can't wait to see a picture of some chubby little feet wearing the booties which I made.Sophie Sew and Sewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239036080576211563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971406994034971752.post-61601878613447993322013-10-06T12:05:00.001-07:002013-10-10T08:22:58.085-07:00My First Post!In the last few weeks I have been studying, knitting, baking and I have also taught myself to crochet!<br />
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Chocolate and caramel shortbread. Sugar high just from looking at this picture!</div>
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Cath Kidston knitting needles and a glass of wine... what more could a girl need?</div>
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The reason I needed knitting and wine!! </div>
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My very first bit of crochet, I am very proud. Decided to make a few granny squares a week so that one day I will be able to make a blanket. Any comments from experienced crocheters would be really helpful.</div>
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