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• chicky Posts: 10,410

  January 2022 edited January 2022

  Yes, those are the colours I’m using - idea is to match our curtains …..
  
  
  

  
  

  Think working with all those stitches (for a double blanket) might be a challenge but I’ll let you know how I get on 😳

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• Pat E Posts: 12,316

  January 2022

  I’m impressed with your little bear Chicky. It looks tricky to crochet.   

  S. E. NSW

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  January 2022

  Playing with making stain glass panels at home. Good to have a go at soldering.
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  January 2022 edited January 2022

  I had no idea that the Handmade wood work show was on Channel 4 and that Pottery Throwdown was on again. Available online. I don't have a TV so I miss news of these gems.
  

  
  

  https://www.channel4.com/programmes/handmade-britains-best-woodworker/on-demand/69977-006
  

  
  

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• LG_ Posts: 4,360

  January 2022

  I don't know the woodwork one - would you recommend? I love the throwdown.
  
  I started a short bookbinding course last night, primarily to connect with my family history but for lots of other reasons too. It's very exciting.

  'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'

  - Cicero

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  January 2022

  @LG_  I would recommend the wood work one.
  

  
  

  On all these shows the premise glaringly doesn't stand. None of the candidates are "the best gardener/baker/potter/wood worker/painter in Britain".  The 'best baker' has never made a pie, the best potter has never made a plate, the best wood worker has never made a chair. But that spin daftishness aside, I think it's always interesting to learn about the techniques.
  

  
  

  On this show I find the judges sour, rather spiteful and humourless. But then these shows always seem to make that mistake in the frst series. The judges have to be warm and encouraging or the show fails.
  

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• SherwoodArrow Posts: 283

  January 2022 edited January 2022

  It’s called Handmade: Britain’s Best Woodworker I enjoyed it.
  
  I quite like watching people make things 🙂.
  
  I loved All that Glitters: Britain’s Next Jewellery Star on BBC2. It was on sometime last year.
  
  Love your koala @chicky.
  I’m sure your blanket will be great. I love the colours 🙂 🧶.

  Nottinghamshire.
  Failure is always an option.
  

  
  

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• Valley Gardener Posts: 2,851

  January 2022

  Trying to fit in some painting in daylight. Too cold to go outside! Brrr!

  The whole truth is an instrument that can only be played by an expert.

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• JennyJ Posts: 10,573

  January 2022

  So many beautiful artistic things on here - you're all so talented! I love the dragon painting, and the beaded jewelery, and the cute crochet bear, and....
  

  I'm not at all artistic but I can follow a pattern so here's my meagre contribution - long fingerless mitts because I'm fed up of having cold hands and wrists while the rest of me is too hot.

  
  

  Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  January 2022

  @JennyJ - very talented! Not meagre at all. A great pattern!
  

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