My Dreaming Peacocks Fountain Hat is washed and blocking. I also seized the opportunity to wash the two mohair scarves: The Furry Snake and Aurora – so that’s me all caught up on washing and blocking, though a few ends remain to be sewn in and I still have to sew and felt my Kenaz …
Monthly archives: March 2008
Error Code 145
Well, the Fountain Hat is nearing completion. I am well up the crown shaping. However… … errors exist in this hat. Don’t ask me where. Don’t ask me if they are inevident, or if the whole thing is a dog’s breakfast – because I really cannot tell at this stage. All I know is that …
A White Easter
Mildly surprised this morning to wake to a light covering of snow. Insufficient to hide the grass completely, but more snow than we have seen since we moved to Orkney. I woke from a dream of somebody close, and felt their distance terribly when I had to let them go on waking. It was so …
My little girl’s a woman now…
The Official Blog Puppy has come of age. She’s all grown up. And very, very moody. She’s quiet and sleepy, and rather confused about her own strange smell. Bless her. To be honest, I had thought my days of truculent teenagers were over 🙂 She is driving me nuts! She can’t settle and wants to …
Rippit
I’ve frogged the Fountain Hat. I spent an inordinate amount of time tinking this thing every couple of rows or so. The tension is all wrong. The needle size is wrong. And it is impossible to read the knitting and find the errors easily. So, a two-stick attempt next. Friday Spin Three of us met …
Antidote FO
I made a complete hash of the photography and need to re-do it, but will wait for a better lit day to do so. Antidote FOs. I would knit this scarf again, but certainly not in this yarn. Something silky, perhaps.