Show and Tell: yarn and tops from Jamieson & Smith.
Tell it on a Tuesday: Simply Topping
Show and Tell: yarn and tops from Jamieson & Smith.
Monthly archives: April 2010
The mountains that I hope to climb
It is Day 2 of Knit/Crochet Blog Week and this post answers the prompt:
Blog about a pattern or project which you aspire to. Whether it happens to be because the skills needed are ones which you have not yet acquired, or just because it seems like a huge undertaking of time and dedication, most people feel they still have something to aspire to in their craft. If you don’t feel like you have any left of the mountain of learning yet to climb, say so!
Monday’s Muse: Carole Kirk
I’m tying this post to the Knit/Crochet Blog Week post for today. I have mentioned previously in this blog that it was Carole who caused me to take up my knitting needles again, but never really spoken of how generous and supportive she has always been since we “met” on that writing course. She was …
Good Morning, Monday
Well here we have a brand-new shiny week and we have it all to ourselves. Many plans were made for today, most of which were predicated upon the clement weather that we have failed to receive. Well, the rubbish is out, the dishwasher is on, the drying is in the tumbler, breakfast is in my …
Starting Out
Day 1 of Knit/Crochet Blog Week. This post answers the prompt:
How and when did you begin knitting? was it a skill passed down through generations of your family, or something you learned from Knitting For Dummies? What or who made you pick up the needles/hook for the first time? Was it the celebrity knitting ‘trend’ or your great aunt Hilda?
…. at length!
Torturing the metaphor
When the current template was installed it was with a view to instilling some structure around here; I chose a magazine style template and battled with it to create a blog that stretched the magazine metaphor, virtually to its limit. I think the magazine metaphor worked in some places, but not everywhere. Recently, and for …