tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12604111620829834832024-03-14T05:33:26.008+00:00Wings of GooseKnitting, sewing, art, food, home and other lovely thingsSamantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260411162082983483.post-92149359877580985312014-08-14T23:19:00.001+01:002014-08-14T23:22:26.961+01:00Behind the scenesHello there, legions of fans! My post is thus titled because, having just gone through the photos of my latest project, I see that there are an awful lot of construction photos (no I haven't been visiting the local building site, I mean garment construction, obviously!), and I thought those of you who aren't sewers may be interested in seeing whats behind all those neatly finished seams.
To Samantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260411162082983483.post-19983428833728320192014-06-16T20:57:00.000+01:002014-06-16T20:57:19.013+01:00Pretty Much Exactly Like Cinderella, or, From Rags to RichesHi Peeps,
Sorry it's been so long since I last posted. And I apologise because I know you are out there readers, because the most unexpected people tell me they've been reading, and that they've enjoyed reading, which really makes my day. So to everyone I've seen in the last couple of weeks who's told me they've been reading; Thank you! (I am aware of the three repeats of the word "reading" in Samantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260411162082983483.post-40148009935513148982014-04-28T21:20:00.002+01:002014-04-28T22:25:51.785+01:00The first of many..?Hello peeps (a ridiculous word I know, but I find myself drawn to it of late!) Well, you'll recall that a few posts ago, I showed you the Vogue dress I made, which I think I can say was a success, though one friend who I know will read this - you know who you are! - cannot get over the hilarity of me posing in my back garden wearing my creation. And I must admit, one can feel slightly ridiculous.Samantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260411162082983483.post-7277358401247046472014-04-16T20:21:00.000+01:002014-04-16T20:21:29.904+01:00A Boy and Some YarnNoah really loves his yarn...
He likes to squish it and rub it against his face (preferably when his upper lip isn't covered in snot, as here!)
He likes to feel its softness...
...and see how much of it he can pile onto his lap.
Oh, and of course, he refers to it as "yarn", not "wool." Good boy!
Here, he is admiring 800g of Falkland I finished plying a while ago; the Samantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260411162082983483.post-81199435719729200782014-04-08T22:27:00.000+01:002014-04-28T22:58:55.029+01:00An unintentional dress for a wedding (Vogue V8469)A few weeks ago I was looking through my projects, feeling a little disenchanted with Laar (yes, it's still plodding on in the background - I bought a miniscule 20cm Addi circular needle to do the arms as I'm so fed up with ladder sleeves, but its takes ages because I'm having to hold the needles a little awkwardly as they are so bloomin' small!) when I came upon a John Lewis bag which Samantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260411162082983483.post-74574588637705241092014-04-02T21:42:00.004+01:002014-04-02T21:42:52.204+01:00Ooh arr me 'arties! My lovely friend Lorna gave birth to her long awaited baby boy Ronan a few weeks ago, and, having left any gift making to the last minute, though with a vague notion of designing some kind of bibs, I happened upon this fantastic toadstool fabric in John Lewis (pictured with white jersey and notions, plus some striped jersey for another pipeline project), which finally inspired me to make my Samantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260411162082983483.post-75847471570856621102014-03-11T22:17:00.002+00:002014-03-11T22:30:30.049+00:00Peppa Pig cake tutorialThis post has been soooo long in the pipeline, so after six months I am finally getting round to it. For Noah's third birthday, back in September, I made him a Peppa Pig birthday cake. I did have a little look online to see if I could find any inspiraration, but I came to the conclusion that Peppa, delight that she is, is such a crude shape that really it should be reasonably easy to work it out Samantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260411162082983483.post-21846780618112922802014-01-22T19:47:00.000+00:002014-01-22T19:47:01.472+00:00Success and FailureAs usual, this post has been a long time in coming. The first yarn I spun on my, now nearly one-year-old, wheel, was some lovely Shetland which was a gift long ago from Helena. I spun it up quickly (for me), and decided that then was the time to try out my first own design, which was to be a little tank top, or vest, for Laurie.
On the niddy noddy!
It was to be knit in the round, with a Samantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260411162082983483.post-22151891634075218192013-11-26T21:58:00.001+00:002013-11-26T21:59:27.365+00:00Thank you SantaPretty much exactly a year ago, we went to Shropshire with my lovely old schoolfriends for a reunion Christmas weekend. This is a (kind of) annual event and part of the weekend entails a secret santa, which is the cause of much hilarity. The gift I received, however, was far from hilarious, but a perfectly thought out and utterly suitable present, and I was, suffice it to say, astonished, to openSamantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260411162082983483.post-61643998972535838462013-10-16T20:40:00.000+01:002013-10-16T20:41:29.967+01:00Ode to a HatActually, I must come clean; there is no ode to follow I'm afraid to say. Just a lot of photos of my Kat hat from Kim Hargreaves lovely book, Precious, from which I also knitted Thea. Marno was having a mess around with the settings on his camera, hence the rather large number of photos of one of the smallest things it is possible to knit, but I loved how these turned out so thought I'd just go Samantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260411162082983483.post-82881254874740940282013-05-28T22:54:00.001+01:002013-05-28T22:54:43.593+01:00Shellseeker Numero 2
As I discovered with Thea, ten weeks post birth + breastfeeding does
not equal a good figure in which to pose in a newly knitted garment.
However, since I have no idea how long it will take to reclaim my post
baby figure (or indeed, if I will), here are some slightly
reluctantly posted photos of my finally finished Shellseeker, almost
completely reknitted as I frogged the wholeSamantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260411162082983483.post-26704424376281240642013-05-15T22:03:00.002+01:002013-05-15T22:03:37.145+01:00Splitting Hairs or Three Bags FullAfter plying my Shetland (post to come), I was eager to start experimenting with some of the fibres I bought at Wonderwool. I purchased a load (as in, I've totally forgotten the weight!) of Falkland top, which I want to spin to a 4-ply weight to knit the Low Tide cardigan, but I don't feel I'm accomplished enough yet (a hideous understatement) to begin on such a large amount. I bought three 50g Samantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260411162082983483.post-27432731581796714002013-05-10T14:13:00.003+01:002013-05-10T14:16:19.466+01:00One thing leads to another...Hello blog! I havent forgotten aboout you, I promise. In fact, I think of you frequently and with longing, wishing I had some time to devote to you and some more love to give you, but with and two and a half year old and a nine week old, you don't figure highly in my list of priorities. C'est la vie. However, even as I'm typing, my fingers still instinctively know where the letters are on the Samantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260411162082983483.post-78980004282301125482012-08-30T19:59:00.001+01:002012-08-30T19:59:37.227+01:00Why, what a lovely sack you are wearing!After speeding (for me) through my lovely Shellseeker, I finally reached the end of the front and decided now would be a good time to try it on (pause for derisive laughter). I had tried it when I got past the armholes, which was quite some time ago in terms of the length of the garment, but had neglected to since then. Items turning out too short is usually my problem; I certainly didn't Samantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260411162082983483.post-62413811495812395632012-08-01T22:00:00.002+01:002012-08-01T22:00:59.552+01:002 ply
I hereby proudly unveil my second ever plied yarn! With a bit of inspiration from my friend the Midnight Sheep,
who was a great help in recommending which rovings to ply, I have
finally produced another 2 ply yarn. I can't remember whether I ever
posted about my lovely MIL's trip to the knitting and stitching show at
Alexandra Palace last year, and the stash of Samantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260411162082983483.post-9456975436246316642012-07-01T21:03:00.000+01:002012-07-01T21:03:29.664+01:00Baking BacklogI seem to remember in a previous post saying that I would be introducing a lot more baking into my blog, and now, time has passed, I've done a lot of baking, but I haven't blogged about it. So this is going to be a bit of a list type post, with lots of photos of cakes and me trying to remember what they are and from which baking resource I obtained them.
It seems the easiest way of going about Samantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260411162082983483.post-26139053555798437142012-05-29T19:10:00.000+01:002012-05-29T19:10:21.980+01:00Under the Apple TreeWe've reached the stage with our house where we're running out of projects and looking for what to do next. It's funny when doing up your house becomes a hobby and you start to think, "What shall we do when we've done everything?" Of course, that will never happen, however, we have made two new projects for ourselves, both rather large, though one more so than the other. The first is that we are Samantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260411162082983483.post-89638042566344553142012-05-18T15:25:00.003+01:002012-05-18T15:26:13.098+01:00WonderhaulIt seems like Wonderwool was months ago now, as we've got so back to normal since our little holiday in Pembrokeshire (of which more in a future post), which we planned to coincide with the weekend of Wonderwool. We went to Pembrokeshire for a week and returned the Saturday of WW, so did a slight detour home through Builth Wells, the town in which it's held, to stock up on yarn for projects for Samantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260411162082983483.post-92102001741540551332012-05-02T22:38:00.005+01:002012-05-02T22:41:38.003+01:00A Turn About the GardenYes! I've been so excited to finally write this post. I've been leading up to it shamelessly, which could have been dangerous as there was always the chance of stalling again, but I have, in fact, actually finished the Apres Surf Hoodie.
I was debating whether to knit the hood or not for a while, as I don't generally get on with hoods, I find them rather cumbersome and awkward to place when Samantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260411162082983483.post-36168265793552609052012-04-20T19:00:00.002+01:002012-04-20T19:00:49.550+01:00A Room With a ViewAs is probably obvious from my severe lack of posts recently, I just haven't had the time to post, and when the time has presented itself, in the evenings, I generally find I'm too braindead from looking after a toddler all day to compose anything. Harsh as it may sound, looking after a toddler all day, every day, does sap your brain power. I seem to be spending an inordinate amount of time Samantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260411162082983483.post-64459775960296164872012-03-23T14:10:00.002+00:002012-03-23T14:10:50.553+00:00A Rapid TransformationSince putting the curtains up, we became more and more dissatisfied with the browny-grey colour of the dining room walls. We bought a new paint sample in a lighter grey, and also tried the same white that the cladding is painted in (bear in mind we are not neutral people!) and just hated both of them. This room is a problem because in the morning it gets bright sunlight, but for the rest of the Samantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260411162082983483.post-1713568954426544942012-03-01T22:05:00.001+00:002012-03-01T22:05:35.657+00:00Pants Party!I was trying and trying to come up with an innovative title for this post, but this one stood out the most for me, so I just want with the simple and obvious choice. Last weekend I went to a pants party!
Well ok, actually that wasn't exactly it, and and it was by no means limited to pants. It was a very old friend of mine's hen do, and she chose as her Saturday activity to do a Vintage Knicker Samantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260411162082983483.post-44005902652267458502012-02-22T15:39:00.001+00:002012-02-22T15:40:45.853+00:00Thea Revisited
I've been wanting to re-post on Thea for a while. Mainly because the previous photos
were taken whilst I was breastfeeding, and, shall I say, it fits a lot
better now! I wasn't sure how much I liked it or was going to wear it,
once I finally finished it, but since losing weight it fits a lot better
and is even bobbling, I've been wearing it so much.
I Samantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260411162082983483.post-61822137972760673712012-02-05T20:28:00.001+00:002012-02-05T20:28:24.176+00:00Too much going onI finished the dining room curtains the other week. I am reasonably pleased with them, but they are slightly too long on one side, which I think is due in part to my inaccurate measuring (I did rush these a little...) and the fact that the wall is unlikely to be straight. It's great to have curtains up in this room finally, and to have got rid of the ugly vertical blind, but I feel like whatever Samantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260411162082983483.post-63432970899215292662012-01-20T17:09:00.000+00:002012-01-20T17:13:00.635+00:00Just a few words and a couple of photosThis will be a post of few words, as I have a boy on my lap who wants to do everything his mummy is doing! But I just wanted to to show some photos of my hat, which I finished the other day. I saw some on ravelry which looked like they hadn't been blocked, so I found a salad bowl the perfect size to block it over, and it's come out nice and slouchy.
Here it is...
I'm really Samantha Nagtegaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02387593161972794260noreply@blogger.com1