ysolda » New

I was pleased to see that the newly opened trendy knitters shop, K1 in Edinburgh stocks Orkney Angora. And now it has been plugged in Ysolda's blog. ysolda » New Ysolda's blog is quite big, and her patterns are popular on Ravelry (I have a few myself...) William may well see a surge in sales …

Question

Look, I know you are out there - I see the stats. So talk to me, please? I have a question: US "Sport Weight" - do I substitute DK or 4ply? Which is the closer? I am knitting mitts. Thank you. Let's put some life in this blog. It has been too long. I feel …

Silly girl

I should have kept off the computer today and been resting my arm but I got a bit carried away with this little project in Publisher. It's one prototype. I shall need to do something bolder as an alternative. Tomorrow I'll mock something up in PSP. Bigger at Flickr. If it's too small to read: …

Discipline

I have decided to apply Project Spectrum as a discipline and am about to go raid my stash box and sort it out into element groups. Anything that (remotely) fits the elements colour groups for PS3 gets knitted and knitted to schedule. Same with the fibre box. This element of discipline may save me from …

Kenaz

Fired (ho, ho) by my paper-crafting PS3 experience yesterday, I decided that it was high time to get those knitting needles moving on a Fire project. This morning I settled down with my Araucania Nature Wool, from the swap I did via Ravelry, and cast on. What am I knitting? I'll tell you when I …

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 …