Just popping in to share with you my latest creative projects. In December I gained two new nieces as both my sister in law’s ended up giving birth within a day of each other! Both sets of babies and mothers are doing well so I decided to make them both a blanket to keep them Read more about Common threads[…]
Bob the fish has arrived and is now happily settled to the side of my desk (perfect dark corner for him and I get to see him without loosing any precious desk space). When he first arrived he didn’t have anything to play with in his tank so as well as getting a filter to Read more about A tale of two fishes (and a mermaid)[…]
On Saturday I headed to the always lovely Oxford Yarn Store to spend 3 hours learning the basics of cabling (fantastic as because you aren’t at home so you do actually get 3 hours knitting & also the ever wonderful James was on hand – decked in cables – should anything go wrong). We started Read more about Learning to cable[…]
I haven’t vanished, but the Scotland pics are taking longer than anticipated to sort through (I took a lot) however there are other things to update you on. This weekend we were lucky enough to have a bank holiday so we managed some things we’ve been putting off for a while and did other exciting Read more about Slowly does it – lace knitting and house improvements[…]
So you may remember a couple of weeks ago I attended a sock workshop at Oxford Yarn Store, it was to finally convince myself I can do socks and it was great to knit with a tutor who could pick up anything I was doing wrong or unintentionally making more difficult for myself. I signed Read more about A lace class[…]
For Age UK, they asked and I knitted, but alas not quite fast enough, so an emergency day off was needed to sew all the bits together and stuff it. I got there in the end however and headed into town to hand my beautiful crofters cottage in. This is the picture it was based Read more about I knitted a house[…]
A few months ago Jam’s dad gave me this beautiful corner chair, the seat was broken and he thought I’d enjoy the challenge of fixing it. It’s been say in the spare room for a couple of months till I realised the most wonderful Ardington School of craft had a re-caining course. A place was Read more about Not rushing – recaining a chair[…]
So this Friday instead of going into the office I got up a little later & headed into central London with Fi to attend the knit & stitch show. IT WAS FANTASTIC! There were loads of different stalls there, we started with the colleges, who had a really unusual selection of gowns/materials on show. We then Read more about Knit & stitch[…]
I have been knitting this scarf for two years, yes I know 2 years on a scarf, its excessive! It is a hard pattern? I hear you cry. No indeed its straight knit, the yarn is an italian one I picked up in Masons (instantly clocked as it lay in the bargain bin). I decided Read more about Confessions from the stash[…]