I ponder now and again the knitting bandwagon. It surprises me how often I pick out a pattern and discover via Ravelry that it is one of the "must knit" patterns. I have seen scathing comments about these projects - the most significant example being the Clapotis. I see statements such as "I haven't knit …
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Interesting stats at Ravelry - support my contention (often voiced but unsupported) that there has been a veritable explosion in the field of knitting. Now, if we could only convince all those 21 year olds who took up knitting in the last couple of years that undyed handspun from Orkney is the thing to knit! …
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Yes, really
The BFL, she is done. Oh, yeah. Really. Truly. All spun - at very long last. I can't wait to knit it up.
I’ll get there, one day
Much pain in my shoulder over the last week - so my self-imposed BFL deadline was not met. I did spin today, and the end is in sight. I really want to get there soon. While resting my arm I have been making silk paper. Details over at Fairhand and I'll be adding updates as …
Tit for Tat
I elected to try the Field of Daisies tatting last night. I would up my shuttle, created my first ring, and realised I didn't know how to join the next part on. The pattern says to do the join, where to do the join, but not how to do the join. And then I noticed …
Hairy knitting
This is my furry snake project, aka The Gorilla. It's a Kaa-the-snake pattern scarf, in the mixed grey mohair that Gill gave me yesterday. It's as hairy as a gnarly old terrier. It gave me a lot of problems yesterday afternoon, and now I don't want to knit it. So I kicked this one off …