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My recipe for happiness.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this article by Liz Hunt in the Telegraph this week, citing women like Jane Brocket and their lifestyles as the root of modern woman’s unhappiness. According to the article, books like The Gentle Art of Domesticity set an impossibly high standard for women and contribute to our general sense […]
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 […]
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