What to Do When Travelling for 20 Hours…
I am very brown and very relaxed. I’ve just come back from Mauritius! The lovely Ben and I have had an eventful year, job wise and needed to lay on a beach and do nothing… Almost nothing…There was...
View ArticleToo Many WIPS and Some Tartan
I was horrified to discover I have four WIPs – you know how I like to be the “One WIP Girl”, being oh so smug about how quickly I finish an item because I work on one thing at a time? I’ve fallen off...
View ArticleBrioche on the Beach
My brioche history is shameful. I was a coward. I procrastinated for over 2 years! March 2016, I taught myself the basics from this book…Knitting Fresh Brioche by Nancy Marchant And blogged my sample...
View ArticleMaking those cute little hats again…
EEk! I’ve not used my work Charity day! We are strongly encouraged to use our one day a year for charity work – it’s a great idea Hmmm – what can I do? The obvious answer was the little hats for the...
View ArticleFluffy Lilac Kitten
I’ve just finished this! 😀 I cast on in June 2018 but it has been a background project – this isn’t a six month knit 🙂 Cute, Soft & Fluffy. Great colour. Easy to knit Stocking Stitch.Yarn and...
View ArticleCasting on Misurina
Misurina is more spicy than I expected! So much going on in this little top. This week I swatched and cast on another of my aquisitions from Unravel festival in February – Misurina Tee by Caitlin...
View ArticleAdventures with Jacquard Ladderback
Who is Jacquard Ladderback? A late Georgian Era, gentleman thief to rival Raffles with his fiendish cunning and skill? Fiendishly cunning and skilled is right …but it’s actually a new knitting...
View ArticleBlue Things
I’ve had a Blue theme the last couple of weeks – the colour not the mood! Both my latest Knitting WIP and my DIY projects are the same shade of blue! My latest WIP is After The Rain by Wensleydale...
View ArticleGreen Gifts
Lucky me – it’s been a week of green gifts – knitterly and otherwise The lovely Ben returned from a week long work trip to Seattle with a gift of yarn. He knows how to make his wife happy! This is...
View ArticleMidwinter – Fun with the Back!
I have cracked on with my Midwinter cushion and sewn together two cushion panels. Wanna see? I’m really happy with these… Sewing the blocks together was very fiddley as the dots in the edging of each...
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