Category: Musings

  • Lockdown Hour of Craft

    We are four months plus into lockdown now. I made it to my summer break from work thanks to some wise advice from a mentor or two and being told to add an extra week onto the front of my previously booked holiday. So that meant having three weeks to fill for me as well…

  • New Year, new resolve

    I was reading the Yarn Harlot’s post this evening in which she talks about having a list for New Year’s Day in which you try and do a little of all the things you hope to do during the year. While I don’t think that it would have much of an effect on what actually…

  • Edinburgh Yarn Festival

    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…

  • 2018 First Quarter

    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…

  • Hay, that’s a good place to visit

    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…

  • Some interesting things I have been reading

    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…

  • The state of the blog April 2018

    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…

  • New technique for left-leaning decreases

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

  • Yarndale 2017

    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,…

  • 2017 First Quarter Knitting

    Here’s a reminder of my 2017 knitting/fibre goals. Complete 12 or more knitting/crochet projects Complete 2 or more spinning projects Keep accurate spinning records Knit something from handspun Brioche stitch Watch more Craftsy classes The year started very well, with finished projects flying off the needles throughout January. The silk mittens were completed and put…