Month: January 2015

  • Finishitis

    Ssssh… Keeping to my rule of finishing two projects before starting another one, I should be in the middle of a cast on. Instead, I’m knitting away on the sock blanket scarf. In fact, this evening, I’ve been sewing in ends. There is something weird going on in my brain. Maybe it is because I…

  • Finished, yet not

    The swirl is finished, at least the knitting part of it. The joy of the final cast off after two years in progress was a lovely feeling. I spent a good hour with pins and blocking wires yesterday evening and now the spare room smells of wet wool, and is likely to do so for…

  • Lazy Saturday

    There’s a certain time of day when it becomes too late to have a morning shower. Yes, it’s called the afternoon. It was my job this morning to wrangle the children, so I got up and made them pancakes for a (late) breakfast. I caught up on a couple of weeks of Desert Island Discs…

  • A yarn-free zone

    A yarn-free zone

    Pens Although most of my communication happens through a keyboard or a phone, there are still quite a number of things I have to write by hand: cards, letters for work, notes to teachers. I find I think differently when I’m writing to when I’m typing. The physicality of it and the slowness mean the…

  • In which I go to Yarndale 2014

    Having enjoyed Yarndale so much in 2013, I booked to go again in the autumn. My friend Daisy rather conveniently came to visit the week of Yarndale, so we went together.  She’s blogged at rather greater length and with more pictures than me. The evening before, I did a  thorough analysis of my stash, looking…

  • 2014 FO and WIP round-up

    I think most of these links will only work if you have a Ravelry account. If you knit and don’t have an account, I highly recommend it. What did I finish in 2014? Handwarmers for my sister – finished on January 2nd (a late Christmas present Stranded Advent Scarf – finished on January 23rd Socks…