What happened to today? Where did it go? I’ve been on the go all day but seem to have achieved nothing. And now I want my tea and I find it’s after 8pm already. How did that happen? ‘scuse me – I’m a bit late feeding the menagerie. No wonder they are complaining!
Yearly archives: 2008
Warm Front, cold back
A warm front came over in the night and washed away most of what little snow had accumulated over the previous couple of days. Just as well. As I was preparing to go tot he Christmas Fair, I stood in a puddle. Not Griff’s fault this time but that of the central heating system. I …
Murk
I’d dearly love to show and tell today but there’s far too much gloom and murk and far too little light so…just move along there, and normal service will be resumed once the sun reappears. Spinning today consisted of much show and tell, and (for me) some knitting. Plans were made for Sunday’s Christmas Fair. …
Whoops-a-daisy
I started another Urchin today, with the remaining Flambé yarn. I just got to the end of the seventh segment, looked down at my ball, and realised that I am not going to be able to complete the eighth segment. Tomorrow I’ll have a root around and see if I can find any scraps anywhere. …
By accident, not design
The blue handspun hat is an FO. I wasn’t particularly careful about the transition to DPNs, and I should have been – because of the stranding on the Sl3’s. Add to this the fact that ball 1 was very different in weight to ball 2, and we end up with a most peculiar hat… The …
That’s very odd…
I have recently been knitting mitts – fingerless mittens, handwarmers, wristies – whatever it is you want to call them. I have always known them as mitts, as opposed to mittens which are closed in at the fingers and have a thumb section… but I digress I had some spare yarn kicking around and elected …