Author: Knitter

I wrote this post a couple of months ago and let it percolate. For the last few years, I’ve been rather enviously reading the accounts of people who have visited Edinburgh for the Yarn Festival. This year, I waited anxiously, my fingers hovering over the keyboard as the classes opened for booking. In a frenzy…

Crafting goals for 2018 Complete 15 projects in knitting or crochet Complete 3 spinning projects Publish a design The year began much as it ended with crochet Imaginarium creatures flying off the hooks. . After six of these creatures in a year, I’m done for now. There are still three small girls I could make…

Last summer, we had a family trip to Herefordshire. We stayed in a yurt on a farm, did various trips out and had a really good week. The daughter spent the whole time bugging the farmer to let her help clean out the animal pens, while the son spent most of the time reading. With…

The Circle, by Dave Eggers – Sci-fi looking at the challenge of social media, bought at The White Rose Bookshop in Thirsk. This was written in 2013 and it is rather disconcerting how many of the futurist bits of the novel are now reality – Amazon’s Electra springs to mind. The questions that were raised…

Stating the obvious I’m out of the habit of blogging.  There are a few drafts kicking around in the list of posts that I haven’t finished, plus a whole lot more posts that have never got beyond the mental note of oh, that would make a good topic. I even have a few piles of…

https://yarnsub.com/articles/techniques/k2togl/ Via knitty.com This might be what I’ve been looking for to make beautiful decreases.

Yarndale is usually the highlight of my knitting year: all my favourite websites and blogs come to life. All the yarns I know only by name can be felt as well as seen. Yarndale this year was excellent (apart from the queueing – despite having advance tickets, we queued for nearly an hour). Once inside,…