Mostly Knitting – Sometimes Theology
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Finishitis
Ssssh… Keeping to my rule of finishing two projects before starting another one, I should be in the middle of a cast on. Instead, I’m knitting away on the sock blanket scarf. In fact, this evening, I’ve been sewing in ends. There is something weird going on in my brain. Maybe it is because I…
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Finished, yet not
The swirl is finished, at least the knitting part of it. The joy of the final cast off after two years in progress was a lovely feeling. I spent a good hour with pins and blocking wires yesterday evening and now the spare room smells of wet wool, and is likely to do so for…
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Lazy Saturday
There’s a certain time of day when it becomes too late to have a morning shower. Yes, it’s called the afternoon. It was my job this morning to wrangle the children, so I got up and made them pancakes for a (late) breakfast. I caught up on a couple of weeks of Desert Island Discs…
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A yarn-free zone
Pens Although most of my communication happens through a keyboard or a phone, there are still quite a number of things I have to write by hand: cards, letters for work, notes to teachers. I find I think differently when I’m writing to when I’m typing. The physicality of it and the slowness mean the…
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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…
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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…
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In which my spinning makes a great leap forward
The journey so far: I begin reading about spinning on other knitting blogs. It sounds fun, but I wonder whether it is worth the effort A friend starts spinning and is very enthusiastic about it I begin to imagine how it would feel to be able to say “I made the yarn”. I think this…
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In love with knitting again
The big long socks of misery are off the needles, blocked and ready to send. Almost instantly, I felt a lightness of spirit and dived back into my various knitting bags to see what was lurking within. I spent an evening knitting on a lace sock, before sitting down to think about what would be…
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Not even a year
*breezes nonchalantly back into the room as if it has only been five minutes* The Ysolda knitalong from January you say? It went quite well. There were five clues, each with two options, so you could end up with one of 32 different shawls. Here’s mine, ravelled here, and being worn pretty much every day…
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New Year New Stash
Why, yes, it has been a long time since the last post. Thank you for asking. First things first: the winner of the skein of sock yarn from the last post… There were three comments qualifying for yarn. I couldn’t decide between them on merit, since they were all good reasons. I went to a…