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, …
Author archives: Scattered Thinker
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 …
FO: Mingus by CookieA
I do love a Cookie.A sock, but my, they can take some knitting time! These Mingus socks began life in August 2008… and came to fruition this week. To be fair, I think I did not have my full set of sock knitting skills at the time that I began them. I do recall that …
WIPsadaisy
Oh dear, WIP Wednesday is all but over and I have forgotten until now that I have news to post. Well, here it is in brief but it is far too late to take photos. Perhaps I shall add them in tomorrow… 1 – Cast on last evening and now almost at the crown shaping …