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My Spanish Holiday – Mezquita of Cordoba

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Published: December 8, 2025 07:59

What was probably the highlight of my Spanish holiday, although it was the smallest complex , was the Mezquita in Cordoba. I have so many photographs to share with you that I have decided to split my visit into two posts. This week I will be showing you a…

Monthly Montage – November

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Published: December 5, 2025 12:00

In November I shared more about my Spanish holiday. This was more about our time in Seville. There was more about the Real Alcazar: this time the part that has Spanish decoration and the gardens. Later I shared out visit to the Giralda bell tower and the…

Wire Workshop

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Published: December 1, 2025 04:53

I have indulged myself with couple of workshops in this pre-Christmas season. The first was on Thursday evening and was in the Sea City Museum during a Craft Fair. I visited the craft fair and bought a couple of things and then proceeded upstairs for the…

My Spanish Holiday – Giralda Tower, Seville

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Published: November 17, 2025 09:04

I suppose this should have been Giralda Tower and Cathedral but the cathedral was huge and very dark and photography was just about impossible. You have to have tickets for the tower and for the cathedral and we had tickets for about 5.30pm. The tower was…

A Crochet Interlude

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Published: November 9, 2025 21:24

Why Not Visit my shop Christmas: Decoration & Gifts Collection. click on photo Or also visit other collections *     *     *     *     * I have been sharing photographs from my Spanish holiday recently but today I thought I would just give you a little…

Monthly Montage – October

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Published: November 5, 2025 22:48

Life must have been very busy in October because I only managed three posts and one of those was a monthly montage. This means that the only things I shared were my remaking of one of the hexagons for the blanket (showing the mistakes) and the photographs…

My Spanish Holiday – Real Alcazar (2)

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Published: November 2, 2025 21:25

Why Not Visit my shop Christmas: Decoration & Gifts Collection. click on photo Or also visit other collections *     *     *     *     * No post last week because I was getting used to using Linux instead of Windows and adding more patterns to my shop. But…

My Spanish Holiday – Real Alcazar, Seville

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Published: October 19, 2025 20:12

A couple of weeks ago  I left you at the entrance to the Real Alcazar as my daughter and I queued up to go in.Here is a map. As you can see there are extensive gardens but today we will not get that far as there is so much to see inside. Beyond the outer…

Monthly Montage – September

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Published: October 13, 2025 07:05

This last month I started with my latest Celtic Coaster and finished with telling you that you could now buy both the patterns. There is one for DK weight yarn and one for worsted weight, except for thickness they both end up the same size. I did also…

Can You See the Difference?

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Published: October 5, 2025 21:44

I told you that I had remade the hexagon for my daughter’s blanket because I had made a couple of mistakes that couldn’t be corrected by undoing,  as I had sewn the ends in and gone on before I realised. Here is a photograph of both hexagons can you tell…