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Hopscotch: Preparing for the Ravelympics
I had some good Ravelympics training this week when I tried to bind off my first Hopscotch sock. I borrowed a knitting instruction book from a friend at our Tuesday night Sticks’n’String meeting, and commenced happily with the bind-off, following the instructions in what I assumed was the correct manner. Then: wierdness. Please excuse the […]
Tea and Cake
Today has been enhanced by the combination of tea and cake. After interviewing Kate for the Perfect Cup of Tea feature of The Fantastical Reality Radio Show, I’ve started drinking vast quantities of loose leaf tea on her recommendation. It is amazing stuff, especially in terms of how strong you can make it… And today […]
Tea Spoon
Recently I acquired a very beautiful knitted spoon by one Suzanne Stallard of Reading. The museum archive box in which the spoon is housed instantly appealed to my archival tendencies. Somehow a relative of the plain brown tags employed by myself and Mundane Appreciation in the development of our respective sound and Mundane museums, this […]
Cake cards
I appear to be making cake-themed stationery. Every single surface in my studio is covered in bits of paper with cake-printed images on them with ink in various stages of dryness. This all started some months ago when, on swap-bot, Susi joined a sound-based swap I was running and then, after reading my profile, decided […]
A giant finishing
In this week of finishing things off, The Fantastical Reality Radio Show in association with Mundane Appreciation has officially been completed. You can download all 5 shows as mp3s from our website at www.fantasticalreality.com It has been an amazing project, a collaboration in which I’ve learned hugely. Kayla and Claudia of Mundane Appreciation are an […]
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 […]
Washing up: What’s your type?
Since today is Messy Tuesday, I thought I’d share the ‘Washing-Up: which type are you?’ key that I just devised for our FRRS Activity Booklet & Evening tomorrow at SLOUNGE, with a partciular emphasis on Type C. But before I explain about the washing-up types and accompanying button badges, I’d better explain about SLOUNGE. Organised […]
This week I have been mostly…
knitting printing my posters and promoting my MA Show. Here is a rack full of half-finished screenprints… all this fetching design needs for completion is some red and white polka dots. There I am, registering the red-ink layer with a look of absurd concentration.And here are the finished prints. I’m really pleased with how they […]
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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