Twee as Fuck

I apologise for my absence the last few days.  I have been back at my Mum's house in Worcester with no computer access, but I am back now with lots of new followers, Yay!!! Fanks.

Pickle sends his love ♥♥♥

Now I am back I can start organising my new craft club called 'Twee as Fuck'.  Myself and three friends plan to meet once a month to drink copious amounts of Tea and make all sorts of delights.  I'm thinking bunting, granny squares and maybe a spot of pom-pom making. A cliche? probably. Do I care? NO!

I will be documenting it on here so expect lots of photos of wobbly stitching and tangled yarn.

 I hope we look as cool as these ladies!

Kate

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Dear Photograph

Take a picture from the past in the present.  Wonderful!

 

http://dearphotograph.com/ 

Kate 

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Pom Pom flowers

The other day when perusing Pinterest I spotted a picture of pom poms on sticks and thought it was an amazing idea to make forever flowers, so I pinned it and then promptly forgot about it.  That is until the lovely Ismay Ozga posted a very similar picture on her blog and reminded me of the delights of sticking a pom pom on a twig.
Today on the way home from the supermarket I spotted a bunch of twigs that were perfect so here are my rather pretty pom pom flowers (with two more jars to fill at  a later date).

Look at other peoples pretties:

From Apartment Therapy.

From Craftster.

 

  From Poopscape.

 From Poppytalk

 From Domestifluff.

Kate

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Bookshelves

Looking at other people's Bookshelves on It's Nice That, is fun.  I don't know why looking at other peoples homes and belongings is so satisfying.

 Bookshelf of Andy Rementer

Bookshelf of Kendra Grant Malone

Bookshelf of Paul Burgess

 Bookshelf of Rob Giampietro

 Bookshelf of Hilary Greenbaum

If you want to show me your bookshelf then please feel free.

Kate

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Knitting inspiration

I am a massive fashion history geek so it was pretty inevitable that my knitting would be inspired by times past.  The winter dress of women in the 19th Century is particularly fascinating to me so I thought I would share some of my historical inspiration from the V&A archives with you.

 

Dress ca. 1870 , maker unknown.  Given by Miss R. Wilson 

Mid 19th century feather muff lined in white silk satin, maker unknown

19th Century embroidered mittens, maker unknown

Dress ca. 1842 from the V&A archives Given by Mrs J. P. Friend Smith

Dress ca. 1845, maker unknown. Given by Lady Lindsey

I am very excited by all of the ideas whirling round my head for my new Oh Knit! collection, most of which are inspired by these kind of images.   

Kate

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Confessions of a foodaholic

Hi, I'm Kate and I am addicted to cook books. Make that seriously addicted to cook books. My amazon wish list is fit to bursting with them so I thought I would share the treasure I have been lusting after.

The Penguin Great Food Collection is a series of recipe books that span the finest of food writing from the past 400 years.  That and the wonderful Cover illustrations by Coralie Bickford-Smith and lettering by Stephen Raw make these a cook book lovers dream.

 Peyton and Byrne, British Baking.  Written by London's finest Bakers, this book is full of lovely British treats.

I have made a few cakes from the first Primrose bakery book and been very pleased with the results so their new book, The Primrose Bakery Book by Martha Swift and Lisa Thomas is super exciting. It's isn't out until September though.

Scandilicious by Signe Johansen.  Who wouldn't want the recipe for Daim Cake and cinnamon and chestnut bread.

 Baked in America by David Muniz and David Lesniak of the Outsider Tart bakery in London. It isn't even out yet but I just know that it is going to be a very sticky, fatty, sweet and delicious cookbook.  Full of Peanut butter too hopefully.   Can anyone else see the similarity between the cover of this book and of Cath Kidston's Make?

See you in the kitchen! 

Kate

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Arabella Ramsay

I want to dress like this everyday please.

http://arabellaramsay.com

Kate

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