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FO: Mr Bump Inspired Double Knit Beanie
I present the completed Mr Bump-inspired*-double-knit-Beanie-Hat I made for Mark this year for Christmas. Ravelled here. A tantalising glimpse of the hat. Shamefully, I presented this article of clothing to Mark in an unknitted state on Christmas morning, but I think I redeemed myself by completing it in time for the walking holiday. Beautifully wrapped […]
The Impatient Knitter
Does anyone remember this satanic evilness? It is the long-ago abandoned Moonlight Sonata Shawl project in Fleece Artist Goldiehair and it has now to my deepest relief, been frogged and repurposed for an alternative project. I have been trying to design some patterns recently and after a few false starts, some really bad maths, lots […]
Walking and Listening.
Thanks so much everyone for your help in identifying the mystery bird from my last post! I think you are all right and the sound I heard was a Great Tit singing. The first few files that I found through google relating to the birdsong of Great Tits didn’t sound at all like what I […]
Family Christmas
One of my brothers works on a cruise ship with his fiancee, Sian, and this means that our family Christmas is dictated by when they can come ashore. This means that this year our family Christmas was held on 28th November. I was very keen to handmake many of the gifts and in between writing […]
Baby knitting.
In the rush up to Christmas and faced with the panic of not knowing exactly what to get for various newborns, I have been trawling the Ravelry queues for beauteous baby knits and casting on wildly about myself as if deranged. Somewhere between completing a pair of booties and a norwegian hat pattern, I have […]
Secrets.
This time of year is all about the secrets. Today I have been secretly knitting something joyous, which can be shared (happily) on Ravelry, since the intended recipient of this particular gift is not a Raveller. All I will say is that I am even more in love with the Fyberspates Robin colourway now than […]
Knitted Vegetable Workshop
On my Eat Your Greens post, Susan asked me if I had ever knit a potato. At the time of that post, I confess that I hadn’t, and I found myself saddened by having to respond to the question in the negative. I have fixed that now and can confidently assert that indeed I have […]
Last minute preparations
I have but one and a half of our delicious squashkins left, for I just grated the other half into a squash/ginger cake for tonight’s workshop attendees. I have also loaded all the wool assembled so far into a very large suitcase. Nobody is going to be short of any desired colour, that’s for sure… […]
Eat your greens
I have come back from Sussex absolutely refreshed and inspired and it was exactly the sort of adventure that was required. I have come back also with a very warm head. The pattern is Red Lipstick’s Headigan, available to buy from her webshop here and worth every penny. I knit the hat with a combination […]
Blue
I am knitting with the yarn I dyed myself, making a simple feather and fan scarf according to this pattern, which I found through Ravelry. I love the feather and fan pattern so much; it looks really complicated but is unbelievably easy with a simple 4-row repeat. The resulting fabric has great structure and shows […]
Finished Object: DROPS design top
The vest is finally done. I ripped back the seams 3 times before I was happy with the way they were looking; I think mattress stitch on bias fabric with ribbing on it is ridiculously difficult to seam neatly and if I knit this again, I’ll adapt it in such a way that it can […]
Apples and Pea-tatoes
Our apple tree has produced its annual glut of fruit and we have gone crazy making stuff from the fruit. Today we had apple and cider sauce with parsnip mash and duck for tea, and baked an apple harvest cake. Tomorrow, parsnip and apple soup are planned as well as an invented trout and apple […]
rainbows…
The dyed yarn is all drying off. It has been a very exciting but intensive few days! What a lot of boiling water, rinsing yarn, drying yarn, weighing out mordants, chopping up leaves, cleaning mud and spiders off things and lugging big kettles of water around has been going on! Hats off to Katie for […]
Vegspiration
I am amazed and delighted by the sheer quantity of produce emerging from our garden right now. Coming from untrained and totally suburban roots, the fact of growing my own food or producing stuff from the garden still feels like a constant miracle to me. Skills and knowledge are effortfully and deliberately acquired rather than […]
Stupid WordPress!
The carefully composed piece I just wrote about clothes, wool-winding, wardrobe healing etc. has all been demolished by some stupid, ‘Internal server error’ in WordPress. I am too annoyed to re-write it! But look: I wound all my wool! Thanks Ruth for all the help with winding the wool and wow, I won’t be buying […]
Ravelympics
The wonderful Lisa Busby of Sleeps in Oysters emailed me today via Ravelry to ask whether or not I was planning on entering the Ravelympics. ‘What is this Ravelympics?’ I wondered, and quickly went off to search the groups, forums and project posts of the wondrous Ravelry. Shortly after this, I had organised my current […]
Hop-Scotching with Felix
I am loving Liz’s Hopscotch sock pattern. Although I have to concentrate on it quite hard, most of the charts are quite easy to memorise and I love the way the lemon and lime yarn by Woolhunter knits up. I enjoy having the time and space to do a pattern which causes me to look […]
FO: Maven
In my week of finishing things, today’s completion involves Maven, the bag I started knitting AGES ago, designed by Courtney Stansbury of Pink Lady Knits, and based on Carrie’s clutch in an episode of SATC. I modified the design quite heavily, basically getting the nice, trapezoid shape decreases from Courtney’s design and then going off […]
Finishing Things
This week, I am finishing things. The first thing I’ve finished doing is winding an impossibly tangled ball of yarn that I dyed in the washing-machine. Folks, never dye 4-ply cotton in the washing-machine. …unless you have the patience to spend many, many hours turning it from this: into this: I photographed it with my […]
Hop-Swatch Sock
I have finally cast on the Hopscotch socks designed by talented fellow Oxford Bluestocking, Liz. In attempts to conquer my morbid fear of charts, and in view of expanding my hand-knit sock collection, these delectable socks seemed an ideal project. The radio show is finally winding down and I need a new diversion. Plus I […]
Knitted Shreddies.
Mark texted me today to tell me I had to see this. I must admit, I’m pretty impressed with this Shreddies ad. Today has been woefully un-knitterly, but I have plans to finish the walking-stick tomorrow with a painted/varnished handle to match the sock-yarn colourway. I think it’s going to look pretty good and be […]
The many gifts of today.
Today has been full of joy. Firstly, Mariee Sioux’ album, downloaded on a Napster free trial, is a gem of an album. Her brand of folk music is the perfect thing for knitting to and she has photos of her feral child sitting amongst piles of jam jars and ladies spinning on her myspace which […]
MA-Jam and post-show yarn soothingness…
The opening night of MA-Jam was amazing; thanks Abby and Kirsty for coming along. It was wicked to see you both! Since the opening I’ve been on that kind of anti-climax you get after doing loads and loads and loads of work towards a deadline and then finding it is over. Consequently, I am trying […]
Easterliness…
So after Blogger *ate* my last few posts, I’m tentatively starting again; this time with a nice picture of the kitchen tile I glazed, featuring Monkl. It was a good Easter weekend, starting with a creative Friday night spent making a tea-cosy out of felt. The tea-cosy ended up fitting with a general kitchen decor […]
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