fourth edition

People’s reaction to my sock knitting has been very amusing.
One afternoon I was meeting up with a couple of friends and we were merrily knitting along when a woman came up and said very slowly: “Oh. You are. All. Knitting. Socks.” We weren’t, actually, but I appreciated the stunned tone to the woman’s voice.
And how [...]

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 or marked with the manufacturer’s insignia; and they tell stories. We have too many brick photos [...]

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 Briars and lengthened Dusty tunics. I just sit here in my cold flat and imagine [...]

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)

I do not know how many of you have read Alasdair Gray’s excellent dystopian novel, Lanark: a Life in Four Books? It takes place partly in Glasgow and partly in an imaginary Glasgow, known as Unthank. In Unthank the characters are forever chasing sunlight whilst seemingly dying of a symbolic disease known as ‘dragonhide’ (Yes, [...]

We have a pile of wrapped presents in our living room. David is celebrating his birthday this week and I finished wrapping his presents yesterday whilst he was out looking at naked ladies at his art class. I also made a head start on wrapping the Christmas presents. Now I’m all antsy because we have [...]

We were walking by the canal today, when the sun came out and I had to take off my jacket to cool off because my Snorri is so very, very warm.
“I’m so jealous of your handknitted sweaters”, David said, “and I would like to be as warm as you this winter.” And so we agreed [...]

At times our Domestic Bliss feels a lot like this cartoon:

Hawksley Workman. One of my favourite male singers. And the video is so beautiful.

Remember this cardigan? My green alpaca cardigan with its handspun yoke?
Well, today it just got “favourited” for the 300th time on Ravelry. And so I’m throwing a tiny blog giveaway just to celebrate.
Just comment on this post – it’ll require an email address, your name and you telling me what your current favourite object [...]