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My favourite makes are always those little bursts of inspiration born out of necessity.  At the shop recently, in a 30's dress shirt, minus cufflinks I had to think of something to stop the coal dust messing up my shirt cuffs.  To hand I had some vintage buttons and a ball of string.  This is how to make some vintage cufflinks...

You need:
4 buttons (2 of which fit through your button holes
some string

1. cut a length if string about 6" long
2. take a button, thread the string through keeping a good length in hand
3. thread the long end through another button
4. tie in a reef knot so buttons are around 1/2" apart, trim ends
5. make another one

That's it. 

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A further excuse for my extended absence is that I am embarking on my first big crochet make: double bed blanket.  For those that don't know or didn't cut their crochet teeth making granny squares here's the pattern I'm using, but there really are squillions of others, I just wanted something very simple and classic.  Oh, and humour me by imaging all of these stitched together with pillar box red.

p.s. there is something utterly delicious about a big pile of granny squares... xxx



I KNOW I haven't posted anything for an exceptionally long time but I've had the extraordinary good fortune of meeting a very charming man, and have been enlisted to help him get his very very gorgeous shop up and running.  It's a Home Store in the most classic sense, selling beautiful vintage hardware for the home and an amazing array of brushes that you just never knew you needed.  It also answered my Christmas wish and has a fantastic collection of string, old and new, so as soon as we settle I shall be crocheting a few new things for you, undoubtedly inkeeping with the utility theme of the store.

Come and find us at 36 High Street, Old Town, Hastings, TN34 3ER, and yes, there will be a website coming very soon.

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