Lightsabre spindling

Yay – lightsabre spindles! Etsy :: needlelite :: NeedleLite Lighted Drop Spindle, 6 inch length 🙂

Etsy :: butterflygirldesigns

It’s a jolly good job that Butterfly Girl Designs apparently doesn’t ship to the UK. Because I don’t otherwise see how these spindles could possibly be resisted. WANT! EDIT: OOOH, she does ship International. Oh…. dear…. EDIT 20 Feb: Oh, they’ve gone 🙁

Lolly Knitting Around » It’s Elemental: Project Spectrum THREE

Lolly Knitting Around » It’s Elemental: Project Spectrum THREE Interesting. Could add impetus. Perhaps I shall start those Firestarter socks…. but I’ll be needing appropriate yarn. I do have some reds in my Colinette creative bag. Not enough for socks, and entirely the wrong yarns anyway, but maybe I’ll get the urge to produce something …

Unraveled » Blog Archive » Who are Ravelry’s users?

Interesting stats at Ravelry – support my contention (often voiced but unsupported) that there has been a veritable explosion in the field of knitting. Now, if we could only convince all those 21 year olds who took up knitting in the last couple of years that undyed handspun from Orkney is the thing to knit! …

Yes, really

The BFL, she is done. Oh, yeah. Really. Truly. All spun – at very long last. I can’t wait to knit it up.

Stripe generator

This is brilliant www.kissyourshadow.com It would be useful in determining the stripes for the socks I plan to do with my angora/lambswool samples [Ravelry] [Flickr] I bought from Orkney Angora, which might turn out something lie this. It just needs a way of entering the proportion of each colour to be used overall, so that …