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 [...]
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 [...]
Anna left an astute comment to my first post on the Six Weeks of Solitude idea:
I find the idea of six weeks alone in the middle of nowhere very tempting, but I think I’d had to not take my knitting - for me it would be less about silence, and more about not ‘keeping busy’ [...]
A sneak preview of my current project. I am test-knitting a pattern for Old Maiden Aunt and I’m quite excited about a new technique I’ve just picked up.
The Six Weeks of Silence idea seemed particularly attractive this morning after waking up abruptly at 5am because of a neighbour getting ready for work and then [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I managed to spend yesterday afternoon in very pleasant company. Whilst the rainstorm nearly flooded Glasgow, we had hot chocolate, listened to jazz, curled up in chairs and knitted whilst discussing the US presidential election. I appreciated the afternoon all the more because it made me reflect on far I have come this past year. [...]
Things seem to fall into place today as you’ll find from these links and stories.
Rhi wrote:
I received an email from an old internet friend that I’d fallen out of touch with several years ago. After adding each other to the key social networking places (as you do) we discovered that since we last spoke, we [...]
Being back at work - a topic not fit for blogging, obviously - and nursing a migraine - a topic not really blogworthy - cannot be said to be conducive to blogging.
I have, however, been knitting a fair bit. Stayed tuned for “exciting” pictures and pattern ruminations. There is also that little thing [...]
My knitting group has been asked by Beanscene not to come back due to “disruptive” behaviour!
Let me just repeat that: my knitting group has been asked by Beanscene not to come back due to “disruptive” behaviour. So, spending around £7-10 per head, sitting around a table and knitting for 90 minutes every other Tuesday can [...]
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