Category: Yarn

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Yarndale 2015

    I went off to Yarndale for the Saturday, this time with a friend from my local knitting group. They’ve really got the hang of the logistics now. We didn’t have to queue much at all, except when it got really busy at lunchtime. Once again, my little corner of the internet came to life. I…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • In which I go to Yarndale 2014

    Having enjoyed Yarndale so much in 2013, I booked to go again in the autumn. My friend Daisy rather conveniently came to visit the week of Yarndale, so we went together.  She’s blogged at rather greater length and with more pictures than me. The evening before, I did a  thorough analysis of my stash, looking…