Good morning, Monday — could you not have been a little brighter and dryer, just for a change? No? Well, we’d best just shrug our shoulders and get on with it then. Perhaps we should replace the hens with ducks. The Postie has been. He brought with him a new stylus for the jukebox. It …
Author archives: Scattered Thinker
The Domestic Scene
First of all, let me say that the knitting plan is foundering already. This is entirely due to the power cut that we suffered on Friday evening. Well, maybe a little to do with the migraine as well. I got no knitting done all day on Friday and was intending to pick up my work …
Finish me Off
Some people have Bad Hair Days — I have Bad Head Days, and today isone of them. FDeeling fragile… I’ll keep it brief. No FOs today – I still have a long queue of blocking to do, and need my new card readerfitting before sharing halfway decent photographs. Gordes reached the halfway mark last night …
Prompted by Paula
Prompted by Paula… I think that I must make A Plan. I detect signs of both displacement and denial. A marked reluctance to pick up any knitting at all… What’s today? Thursday? OK then… Complete Gördes sock #1 by some time Friday √ Complete Antalya by end of weekend Requires grafting Monday: Knit the second …
Hi-tech thrills
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. …
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 …