To recap – my fountain hat was knitting up to too loose a gauge, on too large a needle, and I also could not follow the pattern on the circular needles. Constantly tinking back was spoiling the yarn. So I ripped it and cast on to 2 straights of the correct size. It knitted up …
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Currently Reading
The library van manages to furnish me with some interesting reading these days. The fiction shelves leave much to be desired, but the creative soul is well catered for by the Orkney Libraries service. This time around I have been delighted by a couple of books that I picked up in fairly arbitrary fashion, and …
More blocking
My Dreaming Peacocks Fountain Hat is washed and blocking. I also seized the opportunity to wash the two mohair scarves: The Furry Snake and Aurora – so that’s me all caught up on washing and blocking, though a few ends remain to be sewn in and I still have to sew and felt my Kenaz …
Error Code 145
Well, the Fountain Hat is nearing completion. I am well up the crown shaping. However… … errors exist in this hat. Don’t ask me where. Don’t ask me if they are inevident, or if the whole thing is a dog’s breakfast – because I really cannot tell at this stage. All I know is that …
A White Easter
Mildly surprised this morning to wake to a light covering of snow. Insufficient to hide the grass completely, but more snow than we have seen since we moved to Orkney. I woke from a dream of somebody close, and felt their distance terribly when I had to let them go on waking. It was so …
My little girl’s a woman now…
The Official Blog Puppy has come of age. She’s all grown up. And very, very moody. She’s quiet and sleepy, and rather confused about her own strange smell. Bless her. To be honest, I had thought my days of truculent teenagers were over 🙂 She is driving me nuts! She can’t settle and wants to …