I wonder what my favourite colour is..?
I have been spending the past few evenings winding up a lot of yarn from hanks into these cakes you see. It’s both totally gratifying and hard work.
Gratifying because I get to rummage around my stash, see all the gorgeous yarns I own, daydream about future projects and fondle [...]
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Posted 20 November 2008
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These are my Buttony Mitts. I test-knitted them for Lilith of Old Maiden Aunt. Basically, she asked me one day if I wanted free handpainted yarn and I replied with my best teenage “dooooh” face.
The yarn is gorgeous. It is a soft alpaca-merino-bamboo blend and is handpainted in shades of forest green, khaki and [...]
We went to the 3D/2D Craft Fair today. Having recently visited survived the Crafts For Scotland/Hobbycrafts, I was wary of visiting today’s fair but came away quite impressed. Not only does this craft fair have superior quality control, they are also far more diverse whilst remaining local. Unlike Hobbycrafts you don’t have navigate around [...]
Yesterday I knitted this hat whilst I was waiting for the election results to come in from the US. I was sewing on the flower when Obama was declared president elect. I have no idea what to do with the finished hat, though. I will probably never wear it.
I have been binging on a [...]
World, meet my red cardigan. It’s a simple raglan cardigan with garter stitch ridges on the yoke and a stockinette stitch body. It’s very warm (which is why I finished as quickly as I could because the temperature’s dipping below zero every night) and the colour itself keeps me happy in the midst of [...]
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Posted 03 November 2008
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When I was at university back in Denmark, I’d walk across the Amager Common from my student halls to the faculty. I’d pass by a huge rose bush with beautiful yellow roses, D.H. Lawrence’s Gloire de Dijon echoing through my head. The roses have long gone, thanks to urban development, but the memory of their [...]
This is the weather forecast from BBC. As you can see, I need to finish my cardigan and get started on some emergency mittens and hat or I shall die of frostbite.
At the moment I’m monogamously working on a red version of my beloved grey cardi. When I say “version” I really mean “same [...]
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Posted 25 October 2008
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My days are currently packed full of work and sleep. Seriously. Luckily I can also fit in my obsessive knitting as I have a three-hour commute. What you see on the left is the result of the past ten days.
The pattern is St. James from the current issue of MetaPostmodernKnitting. The pattern has a tied [...]
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Posted 01 October 2008
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I began knitting the Lush and Lacy cardigan a few weeks ago with my lovely alpaca-silk yarn. If you know me, this may surprise you as I am not really a ‘lush and lacy’ person, but I was tempted by the idea of a tomato red silky cardigan in a feminine vintage-ish style. I would [...]
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Posted 24 September 2008
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Yes, I’m a process knitter - not a product knitter.
I finished my take on the ubiquitous February Lady Sweater earlier today. I had been weaving in ends as I went along and the buttons were already fastened, so all I had to do was steam-block the cardigan. And so by the middle of the afternoon [...]
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Posted 10 September 2008
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