About Vintage Grrl

Mid 30's Sydney-sider, wife & mother.
I love vintage fashion, swing dancing, Jazz, shoes, hats, handbags, make-up, chocolate, techno-gadgets, horror films and sci-fi.

My Knitting Patterns

To Dye For!

I bought a bulk lot of variegated and self striping Patonyle in the Tapestry Craft Christmas sale last year, for the sole purpose of over-dying it and making some funky ‘hand dyed’ sock yarn. Patonyle, you see, has been discontinued by ACS, and finding the ‘natural’ colour is close to impossible. So I [...] [...]

Knitting Journal-ism

** I have updated the file ** Well, I’m no journalist. But I have been needing a journal to put my knitting stuff IN. There’s been a bit of a discussion about this on Ravelry. Bex pointed us all to a great site, Kathryn Ivy, and her journal print outs are FABULOUS! All sized at [...] [...]

Clearing my "Crafthead"

I have a crafting attention span problem. Or more to the point, I have flashes of crafting “genius” in the middle (or start, or near the end) of a project of a completely different craft. I have the following “on the go” at the moment. Wedding garter – Knitted – TBF by Thursday this week.. prognosis? [...] [...]

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