A little while ago I mentioned falling off the yarn-purchase-diet and I showed you some Colinette that I gained from p/hop. Well, yesterday I turned that yarn into an oversized Urchin beret. I knitted the large size, because I know that I have a 23″ head. But I failed to swatch — and that was …
Monthly archives: October 2010
Coming and going
Yesterday was an odd one. I woke about 6am with a post-Kirkwall headache, took some painkillers and slept it off until just after 9am. My plan was to spend a lovely calm and soothing morning with my spinning wheel and then tackle some remedial knitting later on (an Urchin.) Just a few urgent-ish things to …
FO: Wayfarer
My first knit to be branded as a Sanday Spinners item – all properly swing-tagged and everything 🙂 I fell in love with this pattern shortly before receiving a phone call asking if I could knit an unfussy handspun scarf for a man. Seemed to be a marriage made in heaven, to me. I had …
Home again
Home again – and most weary. I managed to mail off both my recent commission knit and a P-hop package (much delayed) to paintermom . While killing time, I thought I’d investigate the LYS again in the hope that stock had improved since I first arrived in Orkney. It was a depressing excursion and I …
Broken Promises
So much for promises! I really do not know what happened yesterday. I plied some yarn before berakfast. I got ready to go to spinning group. Went to spinning group. Came home and had a belated lunch, then began to check kitchen cupboards and make a shopping list for today… after that I packed up …
It’s not all about knitting
Tell-it Tuesday returns. Yay! Glossing over the recent declaration of a yarn diet… I am told that this “Purchase” is wholly allowable, as it is not intended for knitting… Now, how could a girl resist that? It was up for p/hopping and I thought it would be great to weave with one day. While I …