Month: March 2015

  • Hand exercises for knitters

    A good video and free booklet about hand exercises to make knitting less painful. http://colettesgarden.com/Hand_Video.html  

  • Daylight

    It really is true that you get better photos of knitted stuff when you take them in daylight. That’s more like the intensity. Observant readers will notice that I haven’t actually knitted any more, just turned it over to photograph the other side. We had a little trip to A&E yesterday. It turns out it…

  • Colour

    Today I am enthralled by colour, the brighter the better. This is quite possibly the simplest knitting that I have ever attempted, but the irregularity of the stripes is keeping me interested. That’s not actually the colour that really has me gripped. No, that would be this: Only of course I’m blogging late at night…

  • Weak

    Yesterday I started another read-through of the Yarn Harlot’s blog. This is a really bad idea for many reasons, mostly linked to my responsibilities as wife, mother and office-holder, plus the undesirability of prolonged sleep-deprivation, the twitchiness of my left eye and the lack of any real plan for work tomorrow. Still, here’s a lovely…

  • Spinning around

    The spinning has made progress today. I now have two full bobbins of singles of the Jacob humbug fleece, so they are ready to ply. However, I only have three bobbins so, before I could ply, I needed to clear the third bobbin. On the third bobbin I was halfway through spinning a selection of…

  • Two finished items

    Two finished items

    Last week on my day off I spent most of the day sourcing items for the boy’s world book day costume: he went as Asterix. Here’s the hat. I had to buy a hot glue gun to make the wings. Now that is an awesome new toy. Later in the day, I sat down with…