gathering it all together
Today I wish to blow my own trumpet. I think that I should drawn attention, if only my own, to the extreme effort and monumental show of self-discipline on display at the Windswept Acre. August may be over today but my UFO-busting efforts will continue because I am determined to see these socks completed now. …
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The other day, I was wittering on about the inspiration to be gained from a simple field of Barley, and mentioned that I had found a shortcut via The Yarn Yard. Well, I fell prey: Isn’t it great when a plan comes together? 🙂 EDIT: Any idea what I can make of it? There’s 750 …
It is FO Friday and I do have several FOs in need of recording. I cannot see it being done however as today seems to have morphed into Fed Up Friday instead. My routine is disrupted this week as Mr L is on ‘is ‘ols — everything is happening at the wrong time and in …
My visual thrills this week have been provided by the field of barley next to the Windswept Acre. Each morning when I take the dogs out, I stand with my rapidly cooling coffee and just gaze at the field. The barley is right at that stunning green-gold phase and it simply glows in the morning …
WIP Wednesday again! There had been a plan to own up to the scale of the problem this week. I was going to record and classify all my started projects and photograph them in one big heap, as well as separately. I was in short, going to ‘fess up and tell all. Well, I was …
Today’s Show and Tell is a new purchase. Newly landed from Amazon in yesterday’s post — and already destined to become a well-thumbed favourite — is Jane Patrick’s “The Weaver’s Idea Book: Creative Cloth on a Rigid Heddle Loom” from Interweave press. New out this week, I had mine on pre-order. Hardcover-spiral: 240 pages Publisher: …