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Unseasonably Warm.
Yesterday I found this sunning itself by the sea in Weymouth. I later discovered it to be this. I don’t remember seeing butterflies in November before.
A cake a stove and some PhD.
I’ve written several posts and then failed to finish them; I’m still working on some comments about The Gentle Art of Domesticity and about the issues its publication raised, but since the book is in Oxford and I am in Reading I prefer not to comment presently. Expect updates on the subject though, and probably […]
Hallowe’en nightmare.
When making a studio in an outdoors garage that has been full of junk for many years, the first thing one needs to conquer is the junk. The second, is one’s fear of spiders. I suspect this one won’t be giving up its web without a fight… I have to confess here, though, that by […]
Donuts.
Whilst doing the WeightWatchers eating plan earlier this year, I read in one of their books about donut baking trays and promptly hunted one down for myself. Last night I made a big batch of donuts in it to share with Mark’s children and we laid out icing and hundreds and thousands and iced them […]
Tits, Tatami and Totally Tired.
Today’s episode of Sesame Street my blog is bought to you by the letter T. I am Totally Tired after running a Ten km run; my knees aren’t speaking to me and my feet? Let’s not even go there. My rheumatologist is well impressed with the progress I’m making on the anti-TNF drug but agrees […]
A Pink Post.
Someone once said that Frida Kahlo’s work was like ‘a ribbon around a bomb.’ If Frida Kahlo was around today, that ribbon would be pink. As you know, The Missability Website has turned Pink for October. My Dad’s mother died of breast Cancer about nine months before I was born. I never knew her but […]
It’s never done.
Today has been quite slow so far and I am in a bit of a black hole with Tatami; even though I’ve reached the split fot the neck, it still feels like each row takes forever… This feels quite apt as many things feel like they will never get finished at the moment! The browns […]
Mundane Appreciation.
It was really interesting to visit I Knit London today, to knit on their sofa, drink their tea and meet Jane Brocket. I did pick up a copy of her book and it is beautiful. I shall look forward to reading it over the next while… …after that I met up with PracticalPolly and we […]
Rhubarb.
In spite of the insanity of the last few months and the strange ways of the weather this year, I’m enjoying a bumper crop of Rhubarb. I am just slightly ashamed that I really did nothing to this apart from planting it and then covering the roots in chippings that me and Mark made using […]
Criticism, Completion, Tatami.
I am working on a big post about Yarnstorm’s book, the Alison Lapper Statue and the feelings I have about handing in my writeup – finally – tomorrow. The theme loosely is criticism and what it does to learning; also difficult issues and how controversy seems to be a natural result of asking hard questions […]
Completion.
The River stole is finished and blocked. Katie helped me enormously with the blocking, then I wove in the ends and now it is done and I can’t believe how very happy I am with it. There is just one very slight thing bothering me: There was a knot with some long ends somewhere in […]
The Pain of tinking back 10 million rows of merino laceweight…
A tale of woe, my friends. Much as I love The River Stole, my brain simply can’t handle the shifting order of the stitches. The way that half the pattern is structured k2tog, yfwd, k1 and the other half is structured yfwd, k2tog, k1 is what makes the flowing lines of the River. But my […]
Colourways.
The photo of Damsons in the last post (sorry, I didn’t have one of sloes) reminds me of this colourway I’m currently coveting from Rohrspatz & Wollmeise. It’s called Wellensittichvogelfeder, which translates quite literally as Budgerigar bird feathers. But to my mind, the colours are reminiscent of the turning leaves at this time of year […]
Blue and Purple joy
Me and the gorgeous boyfriend picked sloes today. Does anyone have a delicious recipe for sloe gin? The River Stole is pleasingly over 50% done.
Making a bag.
I have had 3 cakes of yarn sitting here for time immemorial, and I want to make them up into a bag and felt it. I want the bag to look like this: I’m figuring out a pattern that uses pie-wedging to get the semi-circle shape. I will slip a stitch at the end of […]
Dairy Joy.
Staying with my good friend in Dublin has been an initiation into the way of The Cheese. To celebrate her 30th birthday, all of her friends chipped in to buy her specialist, cheese-making equipment, a cheese bell and an assortment of gourmet cheeses. Obviously my obsession with becoming a smaller and more lithe Felix has […]
Calling all revellers.
Revelry Ravelry has me well and truly hooked.
Organic, 90% cocoa chocolate yarn equivalent
Again with the Wensleydale yarn from Beech Hill Farm in Sussex: This stuff really is like high-grade organic chocolate. You feel the weight, the lustre, the quality of the fibre and you know you’re looking at the good stuff. Wensleydale sheep are the consequence of a genetic accident; Their fleece contains no core fibre, and […]
Well I appear to be blogging again.
I’m back on my blog, a little earlier than anticipated. The break in Sussex was excellent. It was great to walk a couple of miles each day, to eat simply, and to be disconnected from TV, the Internet and all other distractions. I got quite a bit of thinking and writing done, in between knitting […]
Ravelry
Well I just checked my position on the Ravelry queue: You signed up on July 16, 2007. You are #17533 on the list. 2113 people are ahead of you in line. 16752 people are behind you in line. 44% of the list has been invited so far. I expect I shall be waiting a while […]
Settling dust.
Does anyone else ever nip over to SomaFM and open up the Groovesalad link when feeling a bit razzled? I always do. It serves ‘a nicely chilled plate of ambient grooves’ and if you need the musical equivalent of an Indian head massage, this online radio station always delivers. I’ve just booked a holiday from […]
Bat cane – what should go in the pockets?
Here is the Bat-Utility Walking Stick Cosy, nearly finished. The basic tube for this cosy was completed during The Missability Radio Show‘s public exhibition at The Drama Studio in Oxford Brookes University from 12th – 16th September, 2007, by a selection of different knitters from The Oxford Bluestockings (thanks Katie and Ellen!) and now needs […]
The Missability Radio Show is live!!
The first podcast from The Missability Radio Show has gone up onto the site along with masses of show notes, loads of new pictures, and a revised knitting competition page, which I am still working on. Thanks to Mark for this brilliant photo: It’s been lovely to be in touch with both of the winning […]
The incredible wonders of wonderweb.
My day today was saved by wonderweb. I was sewing a banner for The Missability Radio Show – this one is on silk velvet – and when I tried to put eyelets in, the whole thing kind of disintegrated and the eyelet just fell out of a large hole. Wonderweb allowed me to patch the […]
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