Starting Out

Day 1 of Knit/Crochet Blog Week. This post answers the prompt:

How and when did you begin knitting? was it a skill passed down through generations of your family, or something you learned from Knitting For Dummies? What or who made you pick up the needles/hook for the first time? Was it the celebrity knitting ‘trend’ or your great aunt Hilda?

…. at length!

Torturing the metaphor

When the current template was installed it was with a view to instilling some structure around here; I chose a magazine style template and battled with it to create a blog that stretched the magazine metaphor, virtually to its limit.  I think the magazine metaphor worked in some places, but not everywhere. Recently, and for …

New Reading

As a courtesy, I thought I would post here a list of the blogs taking part in Knit/Crochet Blog Week.

Lots of new blogs there for us to visit…

See you on Monday!

Blankie growth detected

Mr L had a telephone conference today so the dogs, cats and myself were evicted from the office. The bad back prevented very much activity so we hightailed it to the bedroom and I decided it was time to exercise a few knitting muscles. That was when I discovered that my key piece of knitting …

Crocked

Brief update on the non-knitting state of play. Woolgatherers are currently puzzled. Cats are causiing difficulties.

Welcome Strangers

Just a quick post to welcome any visitors from the Ravelry group The Blog Hub. Hope you won’t be strangers for too long – WOOL|gathered welcomes new friends with quite a pathetic eagerness 🙂 Existing readers of a fibre frame of mind may be interested to note that The Blog Hub are organising Knit/Crochet Blog …