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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Welp I just sold my car, so that's another tie to the old life gone. It was definitely the right thing to do as it's really not needed any more, but there was still a pang seeing it go...

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm pretty sure this is my pot being packed up...

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

She's here! After a bit of solo pass the parcel/delicate surgery as I removed the layers of packaging, my beautiful tentacle pot from @roseschmits.bsky.social is free.

A pink and grey ceramic pot with many tentacled legs strides across a black surface. Behind is a white wall with patches of blue paint (I've been choosing paint colours for my living room)

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For a while now I've promised myself a tentacle pot from @roseschmits.bsky.social as soon as I could afford it. Now in the most first world problem imaginable I need to actually decide which one to get...

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There was a beautiful mackerel striped sky early this evening. My photography skills couldn't really do it justice, but it's still awfully pretty...

Beautiful mackerel striped clouds against a deep blue sky. Towards the bottom of the image the clouds are lit up in gold by the setting sun

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ooft. I was not expecting to feel this emotional seeing all the 10k runners out this morning. Nine years on I still miss Dave so much...

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Finished sewing the ends in on my scrap yarn crochet blanket squares ready for joining only to find that apparently I can't count. Either that or there's a rogue square lurking somewhere around the house...

Thirty four brightly coloured crochet granny squares laid out in a 5 by 7 grid on a grey carpet. There should have been thirty five, so there's a gap on the top row.

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Such an amazing season finale - I want to listen to it again, but definitely need a bit of time to recover emotionally first. Also I love the concept that every moment we've experienced still exists, even if we can't go back there. It's rather comforting when I miss lost loved ones.

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The initial crochet octagon appears to have brought some friends along...

Six crochet octagon shapes on a grey carpet. Half have a light green background and half turquoise. All have an ornate textured floral design in variegated yarn

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I tried to get a photo of the geese as they flew overhead. It went about as well as you'd expect... (I wanted to stay out until the bats came out, but I got too cold.)

A skein of (very blurry) geese flying across a twilight sky

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

First octagon of the new crochet project is done! (Actually the second one is done too, but I don't have a photo yet.) Pattern: Fae Fleur by Tatsiana Yarn: Pebble Haze DK and Pebble Haze Prints DK from Yarnsmiths

A crochet octagon rests on a grey carpet. The octagon features a textured floral design in pink/purple/orange yarn on a light green background

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

One finished crochet blanket ready to go to its new home (my sister has already claimed this one)... Pattern is Aztec Pathways by MLX Creations (free on Ravelry) in various odds and ends of Stylecraft Special DK, with a linen stitch envelope border of my own devising. 🧶

A striped mosaic crochet blanket lying across a sofa. Each stripe uses two colours, some contrasting more than others, mostly in reds/pinks and blue/greens.

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Dear Self - while it is tempting to stay up and finish the very last round of the current #crochet blanket, I'm pretty certain I'd be better off going to sleep instead... Pattern is Aztec Pathways by MLX Creations (free on Ravelry) and yarn is various SSDK leftovers.

A crochet blanket in brightly coloured stripes in a geometric design in overlay mosaic crochet

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The problem with living alone (or at least one of them) is that there's nobody to suggest that it might not be the best idea to fit a slidey baskety thing in the corner kitchen cabinet all by myself. Or at least help me do it...

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My home town was looking its best this afternoon - not that all of it looks quite this picturesque of course...

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Earlier today I found some image collages I could have used for last week's #ShowMeYourKnits but fortunately they're all shawls so I can use them for this week instead 🧶

A collage of four lace shawls knitted from the same pattern, which features a stylised flower motif and a scalloped edge.

All four use the Tiong Bahru pattern by Åsa Tricosa and the yarns go from a cobweb weight silk from Fyberspates (top left) to a heavy lace weight merino from Madeline Tosh

Two lace shawls knitted from the 1001 nights pattern by Anne-Lise Maigaard. The pale green one in the upper photo uses a cashmere/silk cobweb weight yarn (not sure where it came from) and the striped purple/green one in the lower photo is in my own handspun

Two hand knitted shawls using the same pattern - Chasing Rainbows by Boo Knits and the same yarn (Gina mohair/silk lace from Posh Yarn, now sadly discontinued).

The shawl on the left is a soft green with small golden beads and the one on the right is a pinkish mauve

Three examples of lace shawls knitted from the Regrowth pattern by Toby MacNutt.

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

There was a really strange weather phenomenon on my walk into town this morning. Water appeared to be falling from the sky...

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This week's theme for #ShowMeYourKnits is things you've made twice or more. I've got plenty of examples, but my most extreme was knitting Regrowth by Toby MacNutt (available for free on Ravelry) three times in as many months...

A section of a hand knitted lace shawl made in a lightly variegated pale green yarn.

A section of another shawl knit from the same pattern as the previous one, this time in dark green yarn with tiny green seed beads

A lace shawl knit from the same pattern as the previous two, this time in pale grey yarn with tiny pearlescent seed beads and a border in deep red yarn (yes I did lose at yarn chicken and run out of the grey...)

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The problem with watching live music on the big telly is that instead of the band being tiny specks in the distance (as is only right) I can see them really clearly. And it's making me feel terribly, terribly old. Like who are these middle aged men singing about Coffee and TV?

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

For only the second time in my adult life, I find myself catless. I'm doing okay - he'd been suffering with dementia for a while and was ready to go - but the house is awfully quiet without him.

A handsome black and white tuxedo cat gazes off to the right. He has the classic mask markings, green eyes and a pink nose.

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

It's still far too warm to do anything, so I'm hiding at the shady end of the garden with an iced coffee. There's so much I want to get sorted in the house, but any sort of physical effort and I turn into a soggy pile of goo...

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I am too bloody middle aged and menopausal for all this hot weather.

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Watched a random episode of Guy Garvey: From The Vaults and it finished with this goosebump-raising performance... youtu.be/muJ35xt_K-0?...

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The Communards - You Are My World (The Tube, 15 Nov 1985)

YouTube video by Jimmy Somerville OFFICIAL

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

So how has your weekend been? I've spent a good chunk of mine crocheting sparkly rainbow clothing for Fugglers... (Froggy is not my work, but he *is* very cute.)

Two Fugglers in crocheted rainbow outfits are on a green table in a sunny garden. On the left of the photo is a purple one in a freehanded attempt at a playsuit and on the right a green one in a granny hexagon coat. In front of them is a cute green crochet frog.

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The perfect Taskmaster/ancient Greek epic crossover?

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Ah, the joys of cat ownership! Got woken up at 4 am by the resident feline dickhead walking across my boobs...

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Did I really need a new e-spinner? Absolutely not. Is it making me very happy nevertheless? Oh yes! Can't do masses of spinning until the tendonitis in my left thumb improves (can't spin with the thumb brace on because velcro) but I had to give it a twirl. 🧶 #spinning

A dark tealish green Argonaut electric spinning wheel with a layer of fine singles already on the bobbin. The wheel rests on a cardboard box, and behind it is an open door with a garden beyond.

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I really wish I'd taken a picture when it was freshly styled before the wind and rain did a number on it, but I got my hair chopped off earlier this week. So glad to be rid of all that straggly damaged hair...

A middle aged white woman with short messy reddish brown hair and grey eyes looks into the camera

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Tiny little joys - the in-store radio at the local supermarket played Hipsway's The Honeythief. I haven't heard that in years. Anyone in a Midlands county town who encountered a middle aged woman singing quietly along, sorry not sorry.

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I'm having one of those evenings where I'm twitchy and fidgety and uncomfortable in my own skin. Don't want to craft, read or watch telly or anything really.

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

There's a long way to go before it's finished, but at least I've made a start on painting the main bedroom. Once it's done I can move my stuff into it and start on the second bedroom. (I also assembled a king size ottoman bed solo. This was not one of my best ideas.)

A bed with a buttoned burgundy velvet headrest against a wall that has been partly painted a deep rose pink.

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Just over a week in the new house - it's not like everything is magically fixed (if only life was like that) but I'm starting to sleep better and finding it easier to get up in the morning.

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

First day in the new house and I definitely made the right decision. I'm sure that there will come a point when having family so close by gets a bit much, but at the moment it's nice. And I have drunk fighty octopus coat hooks!

A silver coloured coat hook on a white door. It looks like a drunk octopus looking for a fight.

A black and white tuxedo cat sits looking out at a garden through patio doors. He is not pleased that he's only allowed out under close supervision

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

House almost empty. I'm hiding with the cat as I'm too exhausted to do any more. On the plus side, the first van is already on the way (2 smaller vans as access isn't great here) and my mum has picked up the keys to the new place.

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The house is still not fully packed up, but at this point I'm too exhausted to do another thing. The movers know that I will need help with some of the packing, but I really did want to get more done.

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Watching the Prince & His Songs thing on BBC 4. I had no idea that Muse had covered Sign O' The Times...

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Some properly vintage cable knits for #ShowMeYourKnits - I'm afraid I don't have pattern or yarn details (beyond bog-standard acrylic/wool blend aran weight) as the one on the left is at least 30 years old, and the other not much newer.

Two rather old hand knitted cabled sweaters. The one on the left has multiple cable patterns in a traditional cream coloured yarn, while the one on the right has simple braided cables in cream yarn with brown nepps

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

So is this a positive omen for my upcoming move, do you think? Though I'm a bit worried about those birds...

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The photo isn't great as I was leaning out of the bedroom window to take it, but I love the leafy patterns my new solar powered lights cast on the table...

Two faceted glass solar powered lights rest on the top of a round table in the dark. The light shining through the facets creates many-petalled flowers of light on the table top.

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

That was a belter of a first episode of #Taskmaster I adore every single one of them so far.

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The feeling at the start of a new knitting project when it stops being fiddly and awkward and the pattern starts to emerge... Pattern: Meg March Shawl by Kath Andrews Yarn: Posh Yarn Gina Lace and Gretchen Heavy Lace #Knitting #BriocheKnitting

The front (lighter) side of the beginning of a brioche knit shawl in golden mohair/silk and purple BFL/silk yarns.

The back (darker) side of the beginning of a brioche knit shawl in golden mohair/silk and purple BFL/silk yarns.

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I have a tendency to put my glasses down and then forget where I put them, so I've come up with a solution...

A fourth Doctor build a bear wearing a large pair of glasses

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

What do you think of the new hairdo? (It's a hideous photo, but it did make me giggle...)

A middle aged white woman wearing crocheted wisteria on her head

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Not a bad way to spend an hour or so on a sunny Thursday... #Crochet #CraftSky

A tumbled pile of crochet wisteria garland lies on a light green table alongside a hand made coffee mug. In the foreground is a flower spike in progress, and behind are trees and blue sky with a stone wall partly covered in ivy on the right hand side

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

This week I have been mostly crocheting wisteria... 🧶 I'm using the free pattern available here: www.onceuponacheerio.com/2026/05/croc...

A crochet wisteria garland with bright green leaves and flowers in various shades of blue hangs from black metal railings in the sunshine. Behind the trees are just coming into bud, and the sky is blue with a few small white clouds.

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

If all goes to plan tomorrow will be exchange of contracts and house deposit day, and I'll be back in my home town at the end of this month (or the beginning of next). To say that I am a ball of anxiety is possibly an understatement, but I keep telling myself it will all be worth it...

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Oh, yay. Aggressive brain tumour as a bloody plot point yet a-bloody-gain. Serves me right for going in un-spoilered I guess...

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

At times it felt like this shawl was never going to end, but I'm finally casting off! Of course I've realised that my blocking pins are already packed away, so I will either have to go fossicking in the room full of packed boxes or leave it until after the move...

The lower edge of a hand knitted lace shawl, showing a bind off in progress. The needle holding the live stitches is at the lower left of the picture, with the bound off edge going up towards the top right corner.

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Just as well I wound the second skein of this hand spun yarn yesterday - 12 (600+ stitch) rows to go and the first skein has almost run out. 🧶

A hand knitted lace shawl in progress. It's being knitted in hand spun 3ply lace weight yarn in shades of blue, purple, green and grey. Just above the needles at the top of the photo is what is left of the first skein - there is really not very much of it

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

How the heck do I avoid the cat driving me completely doolally? Physically he's fine, just a bit of arthritis that he's on meds for, but feline dementia means that he shouts All The Freaking Time. Seriously considering noise cancelling headphones at this point...

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