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Dawn
@dawngilldesigns.bsky.social
Geeky-girly-swot-silversmith-of-a-certain-age, either jewellery making, reading, baking, hooking or occasionally allotmenting
Commissions & current stock here:
http://linktr.ee/dawngilldesigns
Half way there!
As you can see, I've upgraded & added a dropcloth, to keep the dusting down!!
(No shinies overnight 🤣)
Come and visit us in the Winter Pavilions WestonSuperMare tomorrow & Sunday

@stitchfestbythesea #Stitchfest
#WestonSuperMare
July 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
And this is why it's Star Trek, not Star Wars for me.
Perfectly summed up. 🖖💜🖖💜
July 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
It's been full on shinies this week, ready for 29/6 @coldharbourmill #Uffculme
Pics of some specific order requests I've made to collect @stitchfestbythesea in #WestonSuperMare 7&8/7
As always, if you are planning to come to either event & there's something I make you really want to try, do message
June 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This time next week I'll be putting out my shinies for day 2 of #GreatBritishFibreFestival @ColdharbourMill
Slide show shows my donation for the draw, some #jewellery / #toollery I'll have there and some pre-orders for collection by some organised customers 😍
It's a fabulous venue
🧶 #Yarn #Devon
June 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Whilst I crack on with my prep for GBFF, I'm sharing some more customer reviews
Every small business I know appreciates every bit of feedback, &a positive review is so incredibly affirming
If you've left a review for an indie - Thank you
And as a reminder, I'm posting to the entire world again
🖖🧶
May 28, 2025 at 10:39 AM
#ScrapHappy
Finishing tips & a link to a crochet pattern

As ever, the point is to provide a link to other crafters; head over to see what more normal people do with their scraps

#Scraps #ReuseIsBetterThanRecycle #ReduceReuseRepurpose #PlasticWaste

dawngilldesigns.wordpress.com/2025/05/15/s...
May 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Oooo. My chums in the press!
I'll see Nicola again @thegreatbritishfibrefestival on 7/8th June
Tamsin won't be there cos she's at the @woolmonty all the way up-country in Rotherham that weekend, so here or there, you'll be in for a treat

Read @simplycrochetmag (newsagent \ library )
🧶 #Devon
May 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Spot of sock knitting with my new 3.5 #addicrasytrio whilst waiting for a customer
Also test driving teeny stitch markers I made at the weekend.
Fabulous to have sun streaming into our kitchen whilst the lines are filled with washing!

#kniteverydayinmarchforalzheimersresearch
March 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I love to receive feedback
#HookerRing & #DGDShinies selfies are reasonably common, but a vide is not
Thanks, my lovely customer for making time to share
(you can order on my website or Folksy shop, & this month 10% of online sales are being donated to @Alzheimer’s Research UK )
#MMTM2025
March 18, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Two weeks to go til @kernow_yaff
Swipe to see some of the new #toollery I'll be bringing, the #hookerRing and #Stitchmarker I'm donating to the prize draw and visit their website to see some info about the other exhibitors

I'm excited and I have an ever growing shopping list 😄
#WhatsOnCornwall
February 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Today is MOT day, so I can't commit to doing any serious shiny-making.
Instead I've done some admin, some #ArtClaySilver refinement & am working on these new socks*
Swipe to see some of the new #Toollery coming with me to @kernow_yaff in 3 weeks

Yes, I've carved some sterling silver crochet hooks
February 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
#ScrapHappy This month I'm sharing the reworking/reuse of some special pearls & bangle
The blog post describes how we decided upon the reworking, showing the process of converting it into this unique, clingy, wearable piece

WP link :
wp.me/p57wiR-W9
#ReuseIsBetterThanRecycle
#DGDInTheWild
February 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Day 28 #Craftuary with @cosycraftclub

Back to working on my cardigan
Glorious BFL from @bluebellyarns
I've missed it
Ripped sleeve back 8 coz forgot to reduce!
Went for lunch with my pal to celebrate her new job to @goto_japanese_exeter.official
Really delicious food & lovely service 😉 🍣
January 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Day 27 #Craftuary with @cosycraftclub
Finished!
I am ridiculously proud of these socks

I don't think I made any mistakes on the second one & I even remembered to make notes 🤣
I can't recommend the #AnkleBiter by @ladybuglaboratory enough
I do need to increase the needle size for the ribbing..1/2
January 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Put away my #Craftuary with @cosycraftclub this evening to finally watch @aardmananimations.bsky.social #wallaceandgromitvengancemostfowl
We've been saving it for special
Cheeeeeese for supper: next up is Christmas Doctor
Perfect day

& @makeitwithkim We had a special cheer at the initial credits
January 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Day 25 #Craftuary with @cosycraftclub

Progress on the #AnkleBiter sock by @ladybuglaboratory

Thanks to her fab tutorials I have the hang of twin stitches and because of her spreadsheet the first sock fitted MrGand his hobbit feet perfectly.
1/2
January 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Day 20+19 #Craftuary

Another day off
Another classic movie I'd not seen (Dalek Invasion 2150) & some progress with MrGs sock
Using handdyed 4 ply gifted by a customer - feels like nonsuperwash wool; I'm beginning the gusset.

#CraftuaryChallenge
#sockuary
January 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Day 17 and 18 #Craftuary with @cosycraftclub Sock
learned I don't need to make the sock a larger size, but use bigger needle for ribbing & larger again for bind off
Yesterday I made shinies for orders completed sock 1 today it's been more marmalade & sock2
#DGDInTheWild #sockuary
January 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Day 16 #Craftuary with @cosycraftclub

Second sock still too tight to get over my heel, so I've ripped back the first and am redoing the ribbing a full needles size larger

Any tips welcome!

In other news, spent the morning updating my website with the spinner rings I'd completed ...
January 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Day 15 #Craftuary @cosycraftclub

Wednesdays are a day we're trying to treat as 'day off' - no #hamlinlaneallotments for him; no shinies for me

Instead we are sposed to be spending it together

This is a jigsaw given by our neighbours for Xmas

MrG thinks he's done it 🤣
#sockuary
January 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
.. to Edinburgh Assay Office soon - anticlastic bangles (plus one I've just listed on my website) reticulated super hefty bangles, the worlds smallest #StarTrek themed fine and sterling nose stud

Heel turning this evening.

#craftuarychallenge #Assay #MakeYourOwn #recycled #Starfleet #trekkie
January 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Day 14 #Craftuary with @cosycraftclub
Isn't that a beautiful gusset 😂😂😂
Not something I'd have expected to say before this year!

If you want to see what the things I was making on the 11th turned into, then swipe.

These are all commissioned pieces that will now need to go ...
January 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Day 12 #craftuary

Sundays are usually bench days, but today I converted 1/2 these fabulous #Sevilles into 12 jars of marmalade (i add 150ml Tullibardine single malt, cinnamon sticks and star anise to channel my nana)....
January 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Day11 #Craftuary

Mostly spent at the bench filing + polishing I'm now covered in compound so after my shower I'll be back on the second sock - that's what I accomplished yesterday, now it's short rows with twin stitches

#benchpegselfie #ShopSmall #sockuary #CraftuaryChallenge
January 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Day 10 #Craftuary with @cosycraftclub
2nd sock

1st cuff's a bit too snug, so I've adjusted my measurements + am having a 2nd go (I'll frog & redo the first once I've perfected the maths 😉)

Yarn is still @kosy_kitchen_fibre merino/yak/nylon sock and proper lush

#LoveLocal #ShopIndie #SockKnitter
January 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM