Category: WIP

  • General Update

    I have been more silent on this blog than intended. I have quite a few posts in draft form but not yet ready to be published. There will probably be a whole rush of them before too long. This week marks the halfway point of my study leave. As I was warned by colleagues, the…

  • Knitting project round-up September 2023

    Shall we just say that the last two years of knitting projects were appropriately recorded elsewhere? Let’s do a round-up of the currently active projects. Rainbow socks These were started back in February and were my Synod knitting for the big LLF debates. They have moved very slowly, although have accompanied me everywhere I went…

  • State of the yarn

    Earlier this month I spent a day off doing a “tossing of the stash”, as recommended by the Yarn Harlot. I got everything out of the various bags and boxes it lives in and had a good, honest look at what was there. The yarn is well organised already, but I emptied each box to…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • September

    September the 1st is a fixture in my calendar: Sock Sniper begins. I’ve already written a little, but wasn’t able to disclose much in my last post. My heart sank when I discovered I had a Canadian target. This would be the year I discovered the truth of whether Canada Post lives up to its…

  • 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…

  • Tour de what now?

    If the first few months of this year have been all about finishing things up, the last month has… er not.  Now back up to 6 unfinished objects. I have two extra pairs of socks on the needles, both part of Tour de Sock, which I was determined to take part in only as a…

  • That’s a wrap

    A wrap? Well, actually, no – not a literal wrap but rather some socks, a strange square item and a blanket. It’s all about finishing projects this year. I’ve been aiming for one a month and I’m up to date. April came in a few days late, but the camouflage lace socks are done and…