The cotton/cashmere skeins are still not completely dry. The alpaca ones are pretty much there so I have twisted them up and will put them away in the caravan this afternoon. I can’t wait to make a start on the jumper but part of me still feels reticent and wants to wait until I see …
Category archives: Knitting
I coulda’ been a contender…
Some days one wakes up with such a degree of clarity… knowing that idiocy is one’s natural state. Remember when I went out to check all my WiPs and UFOs, to see what might be completed in time for the Show this year? I found very little. Well, I should like to know why somebody (yes, me) …
No fat around here
It was a perfect Show day, weatherwise. Warm enough, bright enough and best of all, dry. Not so much sun as to make things hard work. We popped up the road around midday and took photos of sheep judging and at the Horse and Dog rings. There was not a lot going on anywhere this …
Up with the lark
There is a fortune waiting to be made by the person who invents, develops and markets the first smoke detector to intelligently announce the demise of its batteries only during waking hours. 04:14 hrs is not the time to be suggesting that we identify which alarm is complaining and then to find a battery for …
All done, needs dusting
Yesterday carried on worse rather than better and it was bedtime before I twigged that it was the anti-histamines at work. I was dropping off at the keyboard before tea and just could not understand why I should be so sleepy. When I climbed into bed and began to scratch and registered that it was …
Disinclined to ply
There having been no takers for that skein of prize yarn, I intend to wind it today and to commence a second curl without delay. I may offer up the finished item as a giveaway but you have now lost the chance to pick a an item/pattern for it to be made into. It’s a …