I took a trip to town yesterday. Gill had invited me to join her on Monday when she went to Kirkwall and Jennifer had asked me to go with her on Tuesday. I checked the weather and added in the factor that Tuesday was likely to offer more fresh foods on the shop shelves. So, …
Category archives: Knitting
All the Knitting News
Knitting continues! As predicted, it is helping to lift my spirits no end – I am singing my way around the house again. That’s more like it. Not only that, I have my camera out of its box. Hurrah. Get up and go is being restored. Here’s a quick catch-up on the Knitting News: Warriston …
Full of Beans
Today lunch is organised such that there is no prep to do before we eat. I have beans and bacon baking in the oven, alongside some jacket potatoes. All we have to do is to get it out and eat it. That being so, should leave me sufficient time to ready myself to go out …
Wild and dreary
It is a foul day today indeed. The light has not really been with us all day and now at three pm it is all but gone again. I confess to having done nothing useful or productive today. I am sitting at my desk, listening to an audio book and knitting on the new cowl …
A hiatus is imminent
I checked the tracking info on Mr L’s yarn and it seems to be lodged in Birmingham. It will not be here any time soon, then. Warriston will be finished, the knitting part at least, today. I am now wondering about filling in the waiting time by casting on a cowl. I could: add the …
ooh…
Continuing to search for a perfect hooded cowl pattern, I fell upon this Jane Thornley item: Cowled Capelet Not exactly what I had in my head but the basic form is right and… … I now know what to do with the yarns left over from my Colinette blanket! I have long been meaning to …