easily distracted by shiny things…
Posted in knitting on Aug 25th, 2011
It’s not that I haven’t been knitting much lately, it’s just that everything I’ve been working on seems to be taking approximately a million years. Like this sock. It’s a very basic little sock: toe-up, slip stitch heel, and then a million miles of ribbing. I kept it simple of purpose because it was my [...]
Posted in embroidery, knitting, writing on Jul 22nd, 2011
How exciting – I’m in a magazine! The magazine in question is a brand-new digital publication by Kate Davies, whose blog I’ve been following and whose knitting patterns I’ve been queueing for some time. So you can imagine how excited I was when she asked me whether I’d be willing to talk about smocking, and [...]
Posted in knitting on Jul 21st, 2011
This is Eve, in Colinette Giotto. I finished knitting it about six weeks ago, it’s just taken me that long to get around to sewing all the bits together. For those of you on Ravelry, you can see the details here. It’s a mash-up of two versions of the Eve pattern – the short body from [...]
Everyone knows that yarn and fabric bought while you’re on holiday doesn’t count as stash, right…? On the left is two balls of Schoppel Wolle’s “Flying Saucer” sock yarn. It’s dyed two strands at once, so that when you unwind it into two balls you can knit two identical socks. If you follow their pattern, [...]
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 [...]