Month: April 2013

  • Knitting and Crochet Blog Week Day 7 – Looking forward

    This is my final post for Knitting and Crochet Blog Week (4KCBWDAY7). I’ve enjoyed this year – thanks Eskimimi for organising it. Here’s the brief: One year from now, when the 5th Knitting & Crochet Blog Week rolls around, where do you hope your crafting will have taken you to? What new skills, projects and…

  • Knitting and Crochet Blog Week Day 6 – A tool to covet

    We’re getting towards the end of the week now. Today is all about gadgets – search for 4KCBWDAY6 for what other people have to say. (Today is also my birthday, so if my family are nice to me, there may be something more to report by the end of the day – do take a…

  • Knitting and Crochet Blog Week Day 5 – Something Different

    We’ve reached Day 5, and time for something different. It’s the annual challenge to blog in a way different to how you normally blog. You may choose to create a podcast, or vlog, create a wordless post or write in verse. You’ve already stretched your wings with an infographic, now it’s time to freestyle. You…

  • Knitting and Crochet Blog Week Day 4 – Colour Review

    So, today in Knitting and Crochet Blog Week is all about colour (search 4KCBWDAY4 to find more colourful posts). What are your favourite colours for knitted or crocheted projects. Have a think about what colours you seem to favour when yarn shopping and crafting. My favourite colours generally are blue, green and purple. A lot…

  • Knitting and Crochet Blog Week Day 3 – Infographic

    Welcome to day 3 in the Fourth Annual Knitting and Crochet Blog Week. I’m knitting for house monkey – the thinking knitters. Today ( search 4KCBWDAY3 to find other participants), the brief is: Make your own infographic […] to convey any element of your craft(s). It can be just for fun or a thoroughly researched…

  • Knitting and Crochet Blog Week Day 2 – A mascot project

    Yesterday, in the Fourth Annual Knitting and Crochet Blog Week, we declared our houses, choosing which of four mascots best represents our crafting style. I chose house Monkey – knitting is all about new challenges. Today ( search 4KCBWDAY2 to find other participants), the brief is to describe a mascot project. Your task today is…

  • Knitting and Crochet Blog Week Day 1 – The House Cup

    So, here we are with Day 1 of the Fourth Annual Knitting and Crochet Blog Week (search for 4KCBWDAY1 to find the other participants). Welcome, if you haven’t been here before. The challenge today is to declare your house and explain what sort of knitter/crocheter you are. The four houses are Bee, Monkey, Manatee and…

  • Pre-Blog-Week round-up

    Tomorrow sees the start of Knitting and Crochet Blog week but, before that gets under way, there are a few items to blog. Remember the Woolly Wormhead hat workshop I went on a while back? Well, I finished the hat. It’s a beret with three spirals on it. The spirals rather pull the beret out…