Time to start a new post series for the Evenstar Mystery Shawl KAL! Evenstar is the opener to a new series of designs, inspired by The Lord of The Rings trilogy, by Susan Pandorf of Sunflower Designs. It is a circular shawl, of around 6 feet in diameter (I think) and has a beaded edging …
Monthly archives: January 2010
Gail, Gail, the big fat fail
Rarely have I enjoyed a project less than this one. Never have I pushed myself to complete one that I enjoyed so little rather than cutting my losses and frogging it. Why I am doing this, I do not know. Because I have 10 shawls to complete this year and this one ticks another box? …
A funny old day
We reviewed the forecast today and decided that if I went to town I might not get home. So I stayed home and made Spanokopita – a dish that I have never had any confidence in spelling. I also did some sorting out in the utility room and tried to put away the dry goods …
N-Gauged
A migraine woke me up just after 2am this morning. I got up to go to the toilet (migraines turn me into a world-class peeing machine) and found as I returned to bed that I was also suffering the list-to-the-left symptom that sometimes accompanies the hadache and nausea. In our rear hall we have an …
Blue. Haruni.
Haruni has defeated me tonight. With just one pattern row left, and two purl rows, my hands are screaming at me. It’s time to put it down and not to soldier on. Tomorrow is another day. I was sitting here at my computer, knitting away with the pattern PDF up on screen and the iPlayer …
Becoming ambitious
It really is essential that Wool|gathered goes on a yarn diet with immediate effect. There is plenty of yarn, and potential yarn, in the stash. Of course not all of it is appropriate for current knitting plans. That’s the way that it works, is it not? Considering economy set me to thinking about what good …