2010 – the year of the sweater. Or not. The promise that I made to myself was to stop knitting so many accessories and to produce some proper knitting this year. Sweaters. Things to keep me warm. I have yarn for several lined up and I desperately want to spin enough to make myself a …
Author archives: Scattered Thinker
Heads up
There’ll be an FO post on the Bitterroot soon – it’s drying nicely and all we need are some decent photographs once it is unpinned. I’ll be donating to p/hop for all the fun and pleasure that I derived from spinning and knitting for this project. I have also decided to give the shawl away. …
Unexpected productivity
I threw a cake into the oven this morning – having stated that the hostess should not have to worry about cakes, I rather thought I should put my money where my mouth is. So I made one of Nigella’s brilliantly quick and easy jam cakes. In the Domestic Goddess she has a recipe for …
In search of the lost cowl
The other day, I was tearing the house apart looking for the cowl that I was knitting to my own design. I could not find it anywhere at all. I knew with absolute certainty where I had it last – in the bedroom. I recalled storing it in a plastic box along with that Herringbone …
Winter walking
Glorious day today. We stoked up on a egg and bacon breakfast (don’t fret, it will be our single meal today) and then walked it off at Sty Wick – my idea of an empty Scottish beach, with acres of empty sand. I’m still struggling with the new camera and not many shots made it …
Bitterroot beads
The beads arrived today for my Bitterroot shawl. I couldn’t get a very good photograph, but this may give the general idea: The problem that I have now is that I cast on the second of my Very Terhi mittens last night and I kind of want to see those finished – but the notion …