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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Sunnudagr
Life itself has caught up with me, so I am running behind on important things such as answering emails, sorting paperwork and, well, doing the dishes. This weekend I have allowed myself some time off and will be cooped up … Continue reading
Now We’re Getting Somewhere
I finished my Ravelympics project on Monday night, but had to wait until Wednesday morning to photograph the result. I’m rather happy with my first pair of socks: they are pretty, the pattern was fun to knit and the finished … Continue reading
Bricking It
Wall behind the Hunterian Art Gallery and most likely part of the Glasgow University Campus I have a real weakness for old bricks. They come in all sorts of colours depending upon where they were made; they can be handmade … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, History, Photography
Tagged Glasgow, History, love, Photography
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Embodied
Just a link to another weblog today, but it is a link I encourage you to click. A fellow knitter-in-Scotland, Kate, suffered a stroke some time ago and this is how she is experiencing the recovery process. Without going into … Continue reading
Warm and Fuzzy In Several Ways
For some odd reason I keep going back to the idea of a knitted dress. I found a machine-knitted dress in Monsoon (British clothes shop) which I absolutely loved (apart from the fibre make-up) and then I saw some jaw-dropping … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Knitting, Print Culture, Purls, Scotland
Tagged Glasgow, love, Print Culture
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Confessiones
When I started university many, many, many moons ago I fell in with the wrong crowd. Looking back, I can see how it happened. The nice girl living next door to me in student hall invited me in for tea … Continue reading
Picture Perfect-ish
This one’s called “Green Sock On Concrete”. My inspiration for this? Well, I wanted to address tempus fugit, the inherent pain of creation (note those needles: both the instrument of making and of maiming) and something about urban life versus … Continue reading
She’s In Fashion
And on the fourth day of the Ravelympics I was too busy to knit because I was watching this on TV. So. Much. Love. (Rumour has it she was seen knitting backstage at Glastonbury)
Ravelympics: Third Day Adjustment
Goodbye Clandestine sock pattern. Hello Spring Fern pattern. So much better. I’m now playing catch up. Watching the Olympics here brings home that I no longer live in Scandinavia. The Finland – Russia ice hockey game was just mentioned in … Continue reading
Ravelympics: Second Day Qualms
As someone I know would say: “That’s a whole lotta sock you got going on there, girl”. Truthfully I am not happy with my first/last socks. The pattern, Clandestine, is really fun to knit from a knitterly point of view: … Continue reading
