…meet the Displacement Mitts (still a few ends to tidy up) and…The Blind Panic Hat… or maybe the Double Displacement Hat…
Monthly archives: November 2008
Bargains
The very last drop of my recent windfall went on these, from Violet Green’s Sale and Bargains page: Laceweight merino at £7.49 each 100g 725m skein – targeted at this The Autumn Arbor stole from Anne Hanson at Knitspot. I have some sort of freakish idea that this item will be completely knitted by August …
Queued
These, for Mr L. In this: Newly arrived “Solids Club” yarn from The Yarn Yard. This is a yarn named Toddy – 75% Merino/25% Nylon. very soft and smooth and rather luxurious. It will make a fine pair of Earl Grey’s. I have been intending to resign the solids club. Purely a monetary decision, and …
Mmmm…. sniff….
There are wonderful aromas emanating from the kitchen. I must say that when I was assembling the lamb dish it brought back many memories of my Years Before the Aga. This kind of hearty slow British cooking was my stock in trade in those days. Now it feels like some kind of excess to make …
Mystery Afghan
I looked through 44 pages of Afghans and throws on Ravelry and I can’t find it. Maybe I dreamed it. Maybe I saw it elsewhere. I’d like to track it down, so if you’ve seen it can you point me at it please? I am fairly certain that it was pictured in neutral shades, that …
Weary
I feel really very tired today and disinclined to do anything very much at all. I certainly don’t feel like making another fingerless glove today. Today is a day for for comfort – comfort food, comfort knitting, log fires, mugs of hot chocolate.. that kind of thing I am braising a pair of lamb shanks …