Knit your own vegetables in this imaginative workshop led by artist, knitter, writer and gardener, Felix. In this workshop you will: Learn how to organise your waste yarn for maximum vegetable-knitting  inspiration Learn techniques for improvising vegetables in the round Start knitting a vegetable of your choice and leave with all the materials you need […]
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 […]
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 […]
I won’t bore you with loads of details re: WordPress. Let’s just say I’m learning. What I really want to do now, though, is get all editions of the Fantastical Reality Radio Show up in the podcast player I just installed. Let’s see how this goes…
It is time to reflect on my performance in the Ravelympics. Firstly, I have learned that I am no knitting athlete. I am better at over-committing to things than completing things and I have boundless optimism when it comes to gauge-ing how long my projects are going to take. That’s a nice way of saying […]
It is extremely strange to be in WordPress but I’m certain that it makes more sense for my blog to be here than over on my much-loved but outgrown ‘knitaluscious’ URL. It is harder for me to figure out the way I want WordPress to look, but I expect there is some way of developing […]
Imagine my delight when a parcel arrived for me, unexpectedly, this morning. What joy was inside! A Yorkshire Tea Box plus a booklet containing all the Yorkshire Tea merchandise I can exchange my tokens for: Bonus tokens: This AMAZING yarn From The Yarn Yard: and a postcard featuring shed/caravan image of joy: Thanks so much […]
The shed has been dismantled and my Pops collected it early today to take back to the family home for use as a potting shed. I am really happy that my Mum will get some use out of it and it was really great to be able to share the joy of the whole project […]
I have fallen deeply, madly and passionately in love with my little feedback shed. I do not need or want or have the space for a garden shed in my life and so I will not be keeping it in any long-term way. I also know that if it ever comes home with me, it […]