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Hello, my name is Dionne and I have been crafting for a very long time. As a very young child my mother tried to teach me to knit, it was a disaster. However, it must have sparked an interest in making things and, partly to prove that I was not totally useless and partly because I really wanted to make things, I taught myself to crochet. Over the years I have developed a love of cross stitch and all types of paper craft ..... I eventually even taught myself to knit.


I am married to a very understanding man, thank goodness, because I spend all my time either crafting, thinking about crafting or talking about crafting. I am hopeless at housework and dinner is often late!


Thank you for visiting my blog.


Dionne

Monday, 29 May 2023

And Yet More Sparkle

Do you remember that black sparkly cardigan?  Well, I did it again.  I bought the yarn for the sparkle and not the colour!  I bought them at the same time and I guess my head was not on correctly!!


This pattern is one I have made a couple of times before and probably looks far more sweet in the powder blue in this post.  This is a larger size and therefore has noticeably more buttons than the pale blue one.  I realize that you cannot relly see the sparkle in the yarn from these photos.


I had some of the yarn left over, so I made my young niece a beanie hat an some mittens out of the yarn.


My niece has quite a small head for a girl her age and the hat I made was too large and I had to make a second .... perhaps her mum would like the larger beanie hat.

Until the next time.


Dionne


4 comments:

  1. Beautiful cardigan Dionne and when you click on the pic you can see the sparkle,love the little mittens and beanie hats too
    Carol x

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    1. Thank you Carol. It seems such a shame to waste the left over yarn.

      Dionne xx

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  2. I totally approve of buying anything because of the sparkle. I followed Carol's tip and enlarged the image too. It's a great set xxx

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    1. Thank you Lisette, but then you are a sparkling kind of girl.

      Dionne xx

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