Reading Time: 3 minutesLooking back over the year, it’s been a year for hopping about. I’ve delved into some knitting design (Elizabeth Zimmermann inspired), lots of scouring, or washing of my large stock of Ryeland fleece prior to spinning it, attempts at using up small quantities of hand-dyed and handspun yarn using crochet, an experiment in growing and […]
Knitting
Colour Run Conundrum
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve had a near brush with disaster recently, finding myself in a colour run conundrum.. I’d decided to unravel a knitted sleeve that I was unhappy with, straighten out the yarn by dampening in water, then knit it back up again. When I dropped it in some water I noticed, horror or horrors……colour run! The […]
Knit, Crochet, and Knit Again
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe raglan jumper on the needles back in early June knitted up quite quickly but has only just made it on to a photograph. A basic every day jumper, and as a result it has been out and about a bit – stuffed into bags, pulled about, bungeed on to the back of my bike, and has […]
Recent knitting FOs
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA pattern published in (Yarn Forward February Issue 9) for Madison Scarf which I’ve had for some time and was handy as a ‘stash buster’. I have the usual knitters infliction of an expanding yarn stash and need to find ways to keep it under control. I also have the tendency to knit in one […]
Queen of Procastination
Reading Time: 2 minutesI love knitting – it takes up much of my spare time, but I can’t help getting tempted by a few other crafts. I started out with knitting, crochet and dressmaking long ago, and have accumulated a couple of new interests along the way. Much fun is had, but fitting it all in is a […]
