Haruni has defeated me tonight. With just one pattern row left, and two purl rows, my hands are screaming at me. It’s time to put it down and not to soldier on. Tomorrow is another day. I was sitting here at my computer, knitting away with the pattern PDF up on screen and the iPlayer …
Category archives: Living
Becoming ambitious
It really is essential that Wool|gathered goes on a yarn diet with immediate effect. There is plenty of yarn, and potential yarn, in the stash. Of course not all of it is appropriate for current knitting plans. That’s the way that it works, is it not? Considering economy set me to thinking about what good …
Getting on
The wind died down today and the sun made a valiant effort to show its face. Mr L took Nell outside and inflated the last of her footballs. They had fun while I tried to grab some decent FO shots of the Bitterroot. What shots I got were not very good but I put them …
A Thank You
The draw was held 01/03/10 and the lucky winner, #17 pixeldiva, was notified 02/03/10 I am sorry that I do not yet have an FO post for this, but the light has been dreadful. I really want to get cracking on this, so here’s what I’ll do. I’ll set the terms out here and edit …
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 …