Fired (ho, ho) by my paper-crafting PS3 experience yesterday, I decided that it was high time to get those knitting needles moving on a Fire project. This morning I settled down with my Araucania Nature Wool, from the swap I did via Ravelry, and cast on. What am I knitting? I’ll tell you when I …
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O.K. So I was seduced…
Look what came this morning. It came from Grizzly Mountain Arts, via Etsy. It’s really difficult to photograph, but I hope that it shows up well enough to do it justice, because it is perfectly lovely. Can you guess what it is yet? It’s a needle minder (aka needle keeper) and it is to …
More money
I have been thinking. Wouldn’t it be nice, just for once, to be that person who has more money than sense? Just for 24 hours would do, for the experience. Just once in my life, I’d like to do AND instead of OR or NOT. OK. As you were. It’s only a yarn fetish speaking. …
Itchy fingers
I need to knit. It feels like ages since I had my needles out. There are so many UFOs to pick up and crack on with, and loads of new projects in my head but, most of all, I am just craving the act of knitting. I need to promise myself some knitting time this …
Sanday Knitters
There is a wonderful article at Orkney Today about the now defunct Sanday Knitters company. http://www.orkneytoday.co.uk/news_item.asp?newsItem=3330 As I understand it, the Sanday Knitters were victims both of their own success, and of the high delivery costs entailed in getting raw materials in, and finished garments out, of Sanday. In fact, we had a conversation about …
Spinning Day
Spinning group plus 1 today. Very snug. Lots of wheels. Lovely almond tart, warm and gooey from the oven and tasting of a good old fashioned Bakewell. Silence descended, as it always does when a really good cake appears. Eating cake is a serious business. I finished a bobbin of my supposedly fat single, then …