There I was, thinking I had nothing sufficiently Thrilling to share this week and then, hey presto! I was catching up at The Panopticon, and found Franklin enthusing about some new knitting needles. What is so thrilling about that? Well, I am sufficiently geeky to thrill to the whole notion of Carbon Fibre knitting needles. …
Monthly archives: February 2011
WIP me with your finish stick!
WIP me slowly, WIP me quick. It is the Walk of Shame today. Let us begin on a positive note: Gorgeous Gördes The Gördes sock is a thing of joy. It progresses, if slowly. The toe approaches at last, however. I took a dozen photographs of this sock and not one comes even close to …
Tangerine
I really wanted to show you this gorgeous yarn today and I am kicking myself for having bought such a duff camera. The colour reproductuion with this one is awful — and I still cannot read a card from the Canon. Anyway, you will simply have to take my word for it that this yarn, …
No muse today
Remember Hermans Hermits? Anyway, that’s by the by. No Monday Muse today. It is going to be a busy week. Spinning is here on Wednesday and Friday is our two-monthly big shop expedition to Kirkwall. I have lots of work to do…. cupboards to sort and tidy, lists to make, out of code items to …
Sunday Sun
It is a lovely day today and I would dearly love to be out and about with boots on, dogs and camera… but Mr L is having one more go at fitting that light next door and I have spent the last considerable time being shouted at from above and switching lights on and off …
Scots Weather
Blogging one-handed today – the other hand is turning the cups of Mr L’s anemometer, while he attempts to discover the problem with it and fix it. The idea is that I send the signal while he detects whether or not that signal is being passed along the wire. The anemometer has been out of …