Each to their own

You may be slightly underwhelmed by this week’s thrill, but you may rest assured that this particular blogger could not be more deeply thrilled than she is today. Why is that? You may well ask. You see… I can walk around the house, inhaling deeply, at last. The Smell has gone. We have been living …

Just another wet WIP Wednesday

Pictures? You want pictures? Hard luck. It’s like the middle of winter here, hardly enough light to navigate by, let alone take photographs  🙂 Active WIPs: Ferry socks: halfway down the second heel flap Gordes socks: ditto. This sock is going rather fatser than the first one did Antalya: still awaits grafting Weaving: my third …

Friday just about finished me off

Yes, it is Friday. Yes, there are Finished Objects. What there  are not, are photographs of said objects. Can we save them until next week? I should have been in town today but Mr L had concerns about the weather forecast  for this evening — gusts to 55mph from the SE. Rather than be stranded …

Thrilled Skinny?

Two Thursday Thrills today – both come to us via other blogs. My first thrill comes via Romi’s post on Tuesday – Perfectly Plus, a knitting book especially for the generously proportioned knitter such as myself: Perfectly Plus offers nine knit-to-fit garments stylized to accentuate the positive parts of you while emphasizing proper proportion in …

WIPja-vu

I was not going to bother with a WIP Wednesday post this week as we seem to have had several WIP reports in recent days. Added to which, there is nothing new in progress to see. Then I recalled that Norie was knitted so quickly that we never saw it in progress. So here it …

Lots to show and tell

There are far better energy levels about the Windswept Acre now that the days are lengthening, so we have much to show and tell today. The card reader is in my machine and fully working — it took a large chunk of Saturday to get matters that way but at least I can reacquaint myself …