Mr L’s hat is storming along – this is where it got to last night. The project is now on hiatus until I can spin a bit more yarn. I also need to free up my DPNs. I could knit another decrease or two on the circs but it is now affecting my tension rather …
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Knitting Friends
Can I just wave a knitting needle in friendly greeting to our new visitors arriving via Knitting Friends? Pull up a chair by the fire, grab a skein and start winding. You are most welcome. Please stay and chat. I will put the kettle on. Just shove the dog off the chair before you settle …
Mitts
I think that I may have had an epiphany. I was wandering about the house, wanting to get hold of my mitts and work on them, and somewhere at the back of my consciousness I was registering the pains in my joints. You are there before me, aren’t you? Right. Lots of mitt knitting now …
O.K. So I was seduced…
Look what came this morning. It came from Grizzly Mountain Arts, via Etsy. It’s really difficult to photograph, but I hope that it shows up well enough to do it justice, because it is perfectly lovely. Can you guess what it is yet? It’s a needle minder (aka needle keeper) and it is to …
More money
I have been thinking. Wouldn’t it be nice, just for once, to be that person who has more money than sense? Just for 24 hours would do, for the experience. Just once in my life, I’d like to do AND instead of OR or NOT. OK. As you were. It’s only a yarn fetish speaking. …
What the bobbins..?
I have been watching a set of three Ashford bobbins on eBay. They were around £8 when I began watching them. I have two new bobbins this week – £6.00 each plus £1.22 as my share of the postage = £13.22 I thought maybe I could get three more if they went for about £12.00, …