A wander through my stash

Those “holes” in my Ravelry stash  page have been bugging me so, while I had my light tent out, I’ve been doing a little catching up. I love the way that a few small changes make such a huge difference to my photographs. Although these images were still a little slapdash. I improved on them …

Well, that’s that then

Where did February go? I was planning on posting a Wordle map of each month’s witterings as we pass through the year. I did manage one for January. A few minutes ago I trotted off to Wordle to feed it my February archive and what did I find? Wordle is down! Apparently there is a …

Fo: Moreholeythan

I knocked this scarf up last year as a test for suitability for beginning lace knitters taking part in the All Shawl Together KAL. It made a useful stash buster

Very repetitive and mindless drop stitch pattern but worth the perseverance for a very wearable accessory. It offers so much warmth for so little weight

Details and gallery.

Evenstar 2:1

The second instalment of Evenstar was released at 6pm last night. There is one chart of 34 rounds, worked over 280 stitches – so there are 4 setup rows, with the stitches first being doubled to 288, then reduced to 280. I executed the setup rows, then set the work aside until today. Am currently …

Something for the Family Trunk

The snow-inspired project was so exciting for me that I was really quite devastated that it would not work. I frogged it three times and then gave up. I was sad ((The shawl will return. I’m just waiting for new and improved charts to be released.)) Something soft and intricate was definitely indicated after knitting …

Evenstar 1:3

I was true to my word and set about re-knitting my Evenstar yesterday.

I am now the proud owner of a far finer piece of knitting than attempt number 1 was ever going to be. It was worth the extra effort.

Clue two is to be released earlier this week, so that we European knitters can make a start today rather than having to wait until Saturday.