Category: Crochet

  • Round-up – Knitting, spinning and crochet in 2017

    The last time I posted a project round-up, I had met my target of 12 projects complete in 2017. Here’s what happened next: I finished the Woolly Wormhead hat: Toph I’m tending to wear it with the brim tucked underneath for about an inch, which makes it warmer round the ears and fits better at…

  • What the knitter did next

    Knitting and crochet completed projects Looking back, I see that the last time I updated my knitting project progress was in March. There’s quite a lot to catch up on. Legwarmers – April 4th, a commission from my sister to send to a mutual friend’s new baby. The late-night photo has not been kind to…

  • Drawing things together

    We seem to be in theĀ  part of the year that I categorise as ‘too hot to knit’. It doesn’t tend to last very long, but the thought of holding anything woolly in my hands for longer than absolutely necessary is currently not tempting. What does a knitter do when knitting becomes unpalatable? Crochet –…

  • Sketchy

    For Christmas I was given, among other things, a copy of The Sketchnote Handbook by Mike Rohde. I came across sketchnoting a few months ago (via a link from the Bullet Journal site I think) and I’ve been following his website and reading about it. My initial impression was that sketchnoting isn’t really that ground-breaking,…

  • A little bit of WIP

    This evening I decided to tackle a new project, which has been queued up for 15 months. At Yarndale in 2014 I bought a scarf kit from the now sadly discontinued Natural Dye Studio to make a Plankton Scarf. It’s a modular project, which fills the gap left by the epic sock yarn scarf, but…

  • Finished item parade

    It’s been a busy summer so far as knitting and crochet go. The spinning is on hiatus, shortly to be resumed as my diary settles down to what passes for normal. The boy goes back to school tomorrow and, by the end of the week, I should have time to myself during the day without…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Springtime

    It must be spring: I have the urge to crochet. No idea why, but most of the things I have crocheted have been started around February or March. I missed my usual post on the blog on my day-off routine yesterday. Sorry. I was busy. My boy said to me, on being presented with the…