I finally found some good daylight in which to photograph my recent spinning Two skeins of lumpy bumpy merino from The Yarn Yarn’s Merino pencil roving, and a small skein of the remaining pink to go with it. I had a multicoloured roving, which I spun thick and thin and well-slubbed. And I had a …
Monthly archives: March 2008
Knitting Friends
Can I just wave a knitting needle in friendly greeting to our new visitors arriving via Knitting Friends? Pull up a chair by the fire, grab a skein and start winding. You are most welcome. Please stay and chat. I will put the kettle on. Just shove the dog off the chair before you settle …
Mitts
I think that I may have had an epiphany. I was wandering about the house, wanting to get hold of my mitts and work on them, and somewhere at the back of my consciousness I was registering the pains in my joints. You are there before me, aren’t you? Right. Lots of mitt knitting now …
Madness, I tell ye, madness
I seem to be knitting mohair mitts. I shall come to regret this – and sooner, I think, rather than later. And it is a shame, because the stitch pattern will have no definition at all. But the colour, oh, the colour! They will be glorious, if only I can keep them going and not …
Knitting Charts – Knitting Yarn Store UK
A small change in my search terms and a comparison chart was swiftly found – at Angel Yarns, of course! Knitting Charts – Knitting Yarn Store UK 4ply it is, then. I’m going for these Dragon Scale mitts . I’ll maybe use my green bamboo mix yarn for them, or perhaps the grey BFL commercial …
Help!
I have a terrible case of startitis…