Drying clothes

(1 March 2019. I wrote this more than a decade ago, but it’s still relevant.) I’m reaching retirement age. I’m also reaching the point of being tired of being told how green we are today and how ungreen we were in the past. Oh? When I was a kid: We didn’t all drive en mass […]

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Hi everybody. So this is the reveal. The glorious stripes turned into a bag for Nelly Bo. It will become her gym bag at school but as school finishes next week I guess it will become her shopping - beach - play bag instead. :D I found inspiration and tutorial here. I used up my scraps of cotton (DK weight on a 3mm/C-2 from My Rainbow Baby Blanket. It was fast and fun as I did this together with Nelly Bo. We worked treble crochet (UK)/double crochet (US) rows until desired height. I then…

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