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Is that a J Cloth on my head?
Is that a J Cloth on my head? Have my adventures in washing-up taken me to new levels of fashion strangeness? Or is it simply that I need something to protect my hair while I paint The Newly Finished and Long Awaited Studio? I think the second one. The building work happened so swiftly I […]
Happy Valentine’s Day!
The Man bought me this lovely cupcake with my morning tea and I thought it was so lovely I ought to share it with all of you: In other news, the Tatami is finally finished! I am mostly delighted with it; the fabric, colour, drape of fabric etc. is all really lovely. However, I wonder […]
Sticks’n’String
Announcing the official launch of Sticks’n’String, a Reading S’n’B group I’m trying to get off the ground here in lovely Berkshire! Sticks’n’String will meet every Tuesday in The Global Cafe from 5pm onwards. There is a great selection of food and drinks available including many fine organic ales and wines and a great collection of […]
Tatami – a NFO.
Tatami is A Nearly Finished Object. It is currently stretched over a blanket and a towel, across the back of two chairs. It is wider, side to side, than my armspan and I can nearly wrap the back section alone around my waist! So it’s quite enormous… to give a sense of scale, here it […]
A week of stews
The basics are familiar in every place; it is only the details, or lack of them, that introduce into the British version the unmistakable air of culinary poverty. Their stews are the colour of mud, blood or ochre pigment, and taste of thyme and garlic, orange and almonds, basil and lemon. Ours is the colour […]
My 10 favourite blogs.
The ‘You Make My Day’ blog award has been doing the rounds in loads of blogs that I read; Kirsty, Lara, Alice and Needled have all mentioned either the Bluestockings blogs or Knitaluscious and I was delighted to be included. Thanks! I have enjoyed very much reading people’s lists and it has made me think […]
Washing up recordings #3, #4, #5 \_/* 28.01.08
I have three new recordings of Washing up, each of which has identified further issues/areas of interest. Firstly, the means of recording Washing up has to become more responsive to the circumstances of Washing up. Washing up happens when people are ready, when they can’t bear the sight of dirty dishes any longer, when they […]
Pattern notes.
January 2008 has begun on the wrong foot, regarding my knitting. I have had to frog several things entirely, including my Analogue Amnesty yarn hat, which was just ridiculous: My Fyberspates gloves which I was forced to admit just didn’t *fit* my hands – and the yarn is just too lovely to use in a […]
Make or break.
When writing Ravelry project posts, one has the option to place an emoticon beside the project, to describe or show one’s emotional relationship with the item detailed in the project notes. For many weeks now, the Tatami project I began ages ago, has had a grimace beside it, denoting my extreme lack of satisfaction at […]
Miso Soup
An incredible stop-gap for hunger, miso-soup is amazingly low in calories and quite high in vitamins and minerals. To make it, you will need to visit an asia-market or oriental store, and buy the following things: firm tofu spring-onions wakame (plain, dried seaweed) miso (fermented soybean paste) dashi soy sauce Assembling the soup takes minutes. […]
A change in direction
I just organised a loan and bought a car. I wanted to buy something that would be a good investment and not a complete rust bucket. By all accounts the Vauxhall Astra 1.6 Estate is fuel-efficient and it certainly has enough boot-size for whatever art-projects I decide I need to tour. It drives quite low […]
Sleeps in Oysters
Following the Xmas Swap I proposed before Christmas, last week involved a swap with Lisa Busby of Sleeps in Oysters. Our exchange began with visiting our respective installations. We traveled to Prick Your Finger together to see the Knitted Walking Stick Cosies Window Display and then went on to see Lisa’s show in the PM […]
Washing up recording #2 \_/* 06.01.08
This washing-up recording was made after lunch during the early afternoon. The food cooked involved some revision of a couple of scrawled-down curry recipes and it was cooked collaboratively and not just by me. The recipes involved peanuts, butternut squash, creamed-coconut and tinned sweetcorn. We decided that these foodstuffs would be economical and colourful, offering […]
Analogue Amnesty
Yesterday I visited Rachael Matthews and we had an extremely productive day. First of all we did some cooking, eating and washing-up. The washing-up can be heard on my Domestic Soundscape blog as soon as I get to write it up. One of the things I am extremely interested in with the washing-up project is […]
Comfort Food.
Today I am thinking about comfort food. My very first felted project – a felted muffin – prompted me to learn how to crochet, which led me to The Oxford Bluestockings (for assistance!) and from that point on I was almost instantly drawn into the world of knitting. Distracted by alpaca yarns and the lure […]
In Search of Perfection.
The Fat Duck restaurant in Bray and its creator, Heston Blumenthal, became something of an obsession for me last year. I promised myself that upon reaching my goal weight, I would take a trip to the legendary establishment to celebrate my achievement in style. I never reached my goal weight; the craziness of The Missability […]
Happy Christmas!
Today I present an extravaganza of Christmas Photos. I begin with the completed mystery knitting; a hat for the lovely Man. Here are some images of him in it. Some incredible views of the sunset we found whilst out walking. A flashing star. Monkl and Elly’s Christmas day antics. And my Marchpane-inspired Xmas cake. I’ll […]
Christmas Eve…
Well folks, the truth is that I cannot do maths for shizzle. *THIS* is the 100th post on Knitaluscious. Yesterday, contrary to the title of the post, was my 99th post. To celebrate this feat of blogging and to also provide today’s advent calendar image, I present for your viewing pleasure, the saffron loaf. It […]
98 and fog.
I just realised that this being my 98th post, the 100th post will fall exactly on Christmas day if I stick to my advent-calendar plan of posting on each day! Today’s principal image (you can see I’m not being so disciplined on the one-image-per-day principle of the advent-calendar…) is of a mist-wrapped tree we saw […]
Mysterious Xmas Knitting.
Some mysterious knitting has commenced in our household. I cannot say what it will be, but the yarn is Rowan coccoon in the mountain shade, knit with a strand of kidsilk haze in the putty shade. The resultant fabric is utterly lush, looking very like rich, loamy earth and mud or alternatively, a kind of […]
A late post and a naughty monkey.
Yesterday’s post didn’t happen, because I couldn’t find my camera. When I eventually discovered it, it was hidden in a kind of nest that I believe to have been made by Elly and Monkl* during their adventures. One ought never to leave cuddly toys unsupervised. When I checked on the camera, I discovered that Monkl […]
Knitted Bananas
I present, for today’s advent calendar image, Knitted Bananas. I began these months and months ago and it has taken me ages to complete the project. Having no yarn and no pattern and working from one I had improvised months ago all led to vast amounts of procrastinating. But they are finished now!
Chestnut Gnocchi and Sausage joy.
For today’s advent calendar fun, a recipe. This has been adapted from Gennaro’s ‘Italian Year’ and a Jamie Oliver recipe called ‘Proper Bloke fusilli’ or suchlike. Serves 2 – 3 Gnocchi: 250g potatoes, mashed and boiled125g chestnut flour*25g plain flour1/2 tsp salt1 egg50g rice-flour** (for rolling out…) Sausage sauce: 1 heaped tsp fennel seeds2 finely […]
The Domestic Soundscape blog is live.
I have finally gotten my wordpress blog, associated with my PhD topic, up and online. You can hear the first washing-up recording if you are so inclined! The URL is as follows: http://littlesongbox.co.uk/wordpress/ The littlesongbox site is hopelessly out of date and I think I have already messed up the css file for the blog, […]
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