(“…and for those of you watching in Black and White…”) My Brandywine Shawl is off the needles and in its bath. FO post follows some time soon-ish. Here it is, fresh off the needles, with just 10g yarn left over after doing 18 repeats instead of 15. I need to go and clear Mr L’s …
Author archives: Scattered Thinker
What’s the Point?
There’s a new shawl on the needles this morning. Just a wee one skein fingering weight shoulder shawl/triangular scarf. Why? What’s the point? I need one more of those like I need a hole in the head. Well, in fact, there are several points. It’s nice garter-stitch-based comfort knitting. It’s a lovely bright colour to …
Tangy
Today has something of the flavour of Spring about it. The sun is out, there is little wind, and some actual warmth is detectable in the wan yellow rays. To be honest, thoughts have been turning to Spring for several days now – since I noticed the birds are more active and the ducks have …
p/hopping
A little while ago I was successful in bagging a beautiful skein of laceweight wool via the p/hop Ravelry group. Rav user fey packaged it up and sent it off to me and it arrived here this morning. I haven’t got the colours quite right – the photos were taken in artificial light. Think Royal …
Acting Posh
Now, there’s nowt much posh about us, as we all know. I’m common as muck, really. ((Which reminds me of a funny tale about a hairy-arsed firefighter of my acquaintance… who thought that I was a posh bird until he found out I had rellies in Ryehill and Havercroft.))Â ((What is even funnier is that …
Briefly
Let’s keep this brief, my RSI is very sore… I missed Spinning today. A web update that I needed to do, and had promised to have done “early this week”, had done a Topsy on me and grown much larger than was achievable in the original time span. It’s still growing 🙂 Knowing that I …