Yeh! I made it myself

[wee quinnie]

Here are some things made in the wee quinnie household. I am in no way smug about this - as everything involved a bit of bodging together and is in some degree not how the pattern (if there was one) dictated. Look at my threads sticking out!

So lets see some of your handiwork peeps - the more ramshackle/homespun the better.

PS More to follow

[wee quinnie]

more stuff

[wee quinnie]

Finally one from Mr Wee Quinnie

[pablogrande]

v nice

I'm sure I've seen the jumper photo in 'readers modest wives' :))

[Huguenot]

I'm a big fan of the purple jumper.

I knitted a scarf once, but could never work out when I'd reached the end of a row, so it was more of a triangle. A large knitted triangle.

[Michael Palaeologus]

I once made a candle holder too.

[mockney piers]

I used to knit dishcloths during one particularly cold winter at school. It was the only way I could stay indoors during those two frozen frozen weeks.

They weren't purple though.

[Moos]

I made a knitted hat once at school (aged 8) but disgraced myself by taking 3 terms to do it instead of the regulation 1 term. All the other kids made a skirt which they modelled at the end of the year in a catwalk show, while I sat glumly in the audience clutching my knitted hat.

[wee quinnie]

Moos - thats the way to do it!

C'mon people - pictures please!

[giggirl]

I knitted a jumper once. It was awful. I may still be on the wanted list for "crimes against wool". Then I discovered Selfridges and the rest is history.

The purple one is nice though.

[ontheedge]

Like the colour of your walls what is it ?

[wee quinnie]

I have had a poke around the paint tins in the cellar, and I think it is Soft Fauna 3 by Dulux.

It was one we ripped off from the Tate Britain collection I think. Light greeny blue.

When Dulwich Picture Gallery did their changing faces of childhood (or whatever it was called) exhibition a few months back, I sent them a mail to find out what paint they'd done the walls in - felt a bit wierd about that as I thought the expo was rubbish.

[giggirl]

Did the Picture Gallery actually reply? Or were they to posh?

[ontheedge]

Cheers for that

[wee quinnie]

giggirl Wrote:

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> Did the Picture Gallery actually reply? Or were

> they to posh?

Yes they did reply - and were super duper nice and not snooty at all.

[giggirl]

That's good to know.

[mattham]

I can't knit or sew ? and I'm always impressed that (blatant sexism alert) women seem to know how to. I like fixing things though. Here's a staircase I spent rather too long on a while back. The before pic doesn't really show just how bad it was to begin with ??someone had cut all the edges off the stair treads. Why, I do not know.

[SteveT]

A vast improvement, well done mattham.

[wee quinnie]

Very nice work there Mattham

[PeckhamRose]

Fabulous one and all.

Love the old dial telephone too!!

I made a fabulous delicious carrot cake last week for a friend who had been very kind to me in recent troubles.

It decorated it with walnuts and grapes.

It was ate before I could find me camera!

I don't much enjoy cooking but now and again I get the urge and surprise the hell out of everyone.

[wee quinnie]

Nice one Peckham Rose - I do like a good carrot cake. Yum yum.

As regards the old dial phone - it is actually a push button digital, cunningly styled to look like the old ones. Has a very nice bell ring sound as well.

If you buy the dial ones that are on sale around ED at the mo., you will prob find that when the analogue signal gets switched off in the not too distant future...they aren't going to work for outgoing calls!

[tinagwee]

wee quinnie Wrote:

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> Nice one Peckham Rose - I do like a good carrot

> cake. Yum yum.

>

> As regards the old dial phone - it is actually a

> push button digital, cunningly styled to look like

> the old ones. Has a very nice bell ring sound as

> well.

>

> If you buy the dial ones that are on sale around

> ED at the mo., you will prob find that when the

> analogue signal gets switched off in the not too

> distant future...they aren't going to work for

> outgoing calls!

NOOOOOOO! we have really cool orange old phone from berlin, so it wont be working soon? buggrriit! It will seem a bit pretentious to have it merely as an ornament. very disappointed.

[wee quinnie]

tinagwee Wrote:

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> wee quinnie Wrote:

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> -----

> > Nice one Peckham Rose - I do like a good carrot

> > cake. Yum yum.

> >

> > As regards the old dial phone - it is actually

> a

> > push button digital, cunningly styled to look

> like

> > the old ones. Has a very nice bell ring sound

> as

> > well.

> >

> > If you buy the dial ones that are on sale

> around

> > ED at the mo., you will prob find that when the

> > analogue signal gets switched off in the not

> too

> > distant future...they aren't going to work for

> > outgoing calls!

>

>

> NOOOOOOO! we have really cool orange old phone

> from berlin, so it wont be working soon?

> buggrriit! It will seem a bit pretentious to have

> it merely as an ornament. very disappointed.

It should work for incoming calls though.

[wee quinnie]

Some of Mr Wee Quinnie's work from this week.

(He's a handy bloke to have around)

[wee quinnie]

Oh and this as well

He made some biscuits as well, but we've troughed the lot, I'm afraid.