Who would ever have thought that knitting dinky squares would be so much fun and so absorbing? Not me! Anyway, I am totally besotted by my blankie and my mind was clearly working on it overnight as I woke up full of enthusiasm and ideas. I need more colours! One way that this can be …
Monthly archives: March 2010
Ferry Blankie
The ferry blanket is now a live Ravelry project – I expect it will do much hibernating over the coming months. I am just two squares into this project so far. One of the great things about knitting is that it leaves room for thought. Sometimes simple knitting is a good thing to do in …
Whirlin aboot
Whoops-a-daisy – life suddenly turned upside down! I did not venture forth to Kirkwall on Tuesday – I went to a business start up advice meeting instead. Now I find myself involved in partnership discussions and mapping out some knitting designs… It is very early days, and there is no knowing how matters will pan …
I need a good wipping
I had a look in Ravelry and I have… 4 live WIPs 17 hibernating WIPs of which at least 13 will come to fruition eventually 3 frogged projects that will certainly be restarted at some point So that’s 20 official WIPs that require dealing with. There are other projects scattered around the house that haven’t …
An assertive yarn
Lst August I bought a skein of Gloaming from Natalie at The Yarn Yard. It’s a Merino/Silk blend offering 800m to a 100g skein.
The yarn has languished for a while.
Cue the Echo Flower Shawl.
Oh, oh, Kermit’s back
The Skew sock was completed last night and I tried it on. This thing is just not going to work, so it is off to the frog pond for it. I had a lot of fun, the whole knitting thing was a real magical mystery tour. I’m glad I made it, but I am never …