I’m doing Sockdown again, this month. You’d have thought I’d been all socked out by now. I’m doing a pattern from the “Underappreciated” category – so any sock pattern that has less than 15 projects on Ravelry. I’m doing Phaeodaria by Hunter Hammersen, which is absolutely gorgeous and have no idea why it hasn’t got […]
I finally got around to using my yarn that I picked up at the Big Coffee Morning yarn swap at A Good Yarn. Nicsknots brought this gorgeous Easy Knits skein to swap and I was lucky enough for my ticket to be drawn first. The pattern is Rubbish Mojitos by Woolly Wormhead. I was very impressed
I recently purchased some Knit Pro Karbonz DPNs. For a start off, they are a work of art. I think they look sleek and quite unusual. My usual DPNs are the Knit Pro Nova metal ones. I prefer the metal ones to wooden because the stitches move quicker, it speeds up my knitting and I
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I love knitting in the round and have done a LOT of it. So I thought I had fairly good knowledge on the subject. I was bought Circular Knitting Workshop by Margaret Radcliffe for my birthday and was quite surprised that there was a lot of information that I’ve been finding very useful. It’s a
I can’t seem to settle with my craft life at the moment. I’m bobbing about all over the place. As well as the usual, knitting, I’ve been spinning and sewing too! As I mentioned last week, I’ve been doing some embroidery. My dropcloth sampler arrived this morning; so I’ve got another project to add to
Not really sure what started it but I’ve had the needle, thread and embroidery hoop out this week. I ordered this sampler to embroider and while waiting for it to arrive; I ransacked my supplies. It was like a very colourful bomb had dropped. I bought the latest Crossstitcher magazine, and wanted to try a little
I had some really wonderful surprises from my family this Christmas. I had lots of lovely knitting/spinning gifts. Some very helpful knitting books. And some gorgeous spinning fibre and some Knitpro Cubix needles. Going clockwise, starting with the braid, it is 100% BFL – Enjoy the Ride from Countess Ablaze. The others are from HilltopCloud,
I had a wonderful day, during this holiday week. I taught my beautiful niece to knit. We had some help though from little Pippa. To be honest, there was more giggling, talking and music than knitting but it was lots of fun.
I can finally reveal the knitted projects that were made for Christmas gifts. The first is a Neat Ripple Cushion made for my Mum. It’s the Neat Ripple Pattern by Lucy of Attic24. I made an 18″ cushion. The yarn is Rico Design Essentials Cotton DK and there is such a lovely array of colours to choice
