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Posted in knitting on May 20th, 2011
Say hello to Aunty Claire! My little neice, Amelia Rose (Milly, for short) was born last week. So, of course, the first thing I did was knit. And also, of course, it had to be shoes! Milly’s reaction to the shoes wasn’t quite what I’d been hoping for – it mostly involved kicking furiously until [...]
Posted in knitting on May 17th, 2011
This beautiful yarn, sparkling with water droplets, used to be my Colourscape Cabled Jumper. The yarn was a gift from a friend, and I loved it so much that I invented a jumper pattern for it almost straight away. However, over the last two years I’ve kept taking it out of the wardrobe and then [...]
This is what came of the yarn I used to dye my hands black last weekend – a little hat. I emailed Designer Yarns (the distributors for Debbie Bliss in the UK) about the dye issue, and received this reply: With dark colours, there is sometimes residual dye that has not been removed in the final [...]
Posted in knitting on Feb 27th, 2011
I did quite a lot of knitting in the run-up to Christmas, but haven’t been giving myself much time for it lately. I started a new Clapotis last weekend, and yesterday I dashed out to buy some yarn for a new hat. (I dyed my hair bright red last week, and I thought a little [...]
Posted in knitting on Jan 20th, 2011
Every time I knit a Clapotis, I complain all the way through. “It’s boring!” “My hands hurt!” “Maybe I could make it shorter…” “How much further?” But every time I’ve finished knitting a Clapotis, I can’t wait to start another one. This one was started in July, as a birthday present for my mother-in-law. But [...]
Posted in knitting on Sep 20th, 2010
I knitted this cardigan at record speed, so that I could wear it to a wedding back in June. The yarn is Rowan Polar, and it had a previous life as a tank top from Teva Durham’s Loop-D-Loop book. I love the colour, but I have to confess that I’m not a huge fan of [...]
Posted in knitting on Apr 5th, 2010
Exactly a year since I finished the first one, here’s my second Clapotis! The yarn, Rowan Tapestry (now discontinued) was a Christmas gift (thanks Jenny!), and I started knitting the day after Boxing Day. Here it is completed, just in time for Easter. I only made one amendment to the original pattern, and that was [...]
Posted in knitting on Mar 23rd, 2010
Last weekend, during a thrilling bout of insomnia, I finished off the Sackboy that I’ve been knitting over the past month. To be fair, about three weeks of that was spent avoiding sewing all the fiddly little bits together. I could easily have finished him in a weekend if I’d been more enthusiastic. The pattern [...]
Yay, the new Knitty is up! Knitty’s a funny one for me – I love looking through the new designs, and I’ve got quite a few patterns queued on Ravelry, but I’ve actually completed very few Knitty projects. Slither, Fetching and the ubiquitous Clapotis are the only ones I’ve finished, I think. This one though… [...]
Posted in knitting on Nov 27th, 2009
This is my latest project – my Walking in the Dark Hat. I’ve had a reel of very narrow light-reflective tape for years, but I could never think of what to do with it. Since I started clog dancing, I’ve been walking down to the rehearsals. When I’m on my bike I wear a high-visibility [...]