It’s not all about knitting

Tell-it Tuesday returns. Yay! Glossing over the recent declaration of a yarn diet… I am told that this “Purchase” is wholly allowable, as it is not intended for knitting… Now, how could a girl resist that? It was up for p/hopping and I thought it would be great to weave with one day. While I …

What to show, what to tell?

It is a grey and uninspiring day today, quite chilly and rather damp. Definitely an indoors day. I am wandering the house, in this awful quiet, wondering just what I have to Show and Tell today. Presently I am stumped, so I am going to park this post as a draft and come back and …

Tuesday is just a state of mind

Show and Tell! Show Tell The skein of yarn that I won from pmcblonde’s blog, by naming her new shawl pattern “Mizzle”, arrived. The pattern itself was also included. Mr L has claimed the yarn for socks for himself, but I think he’s willing to forgo the shawl… Show Tell The entirety of my sock …

There is a wee kernel of self-discipline, if you care to look closely enough

Today I wish to blow my own trumpet. I think that I should drawn attention, if only my own, to the extreme effort and monumental show of self-discipline on display at the Windswept Acre. August may be over today but my UFO-busting efforts will continue because I am determined to see these socks completed now. …

New to the fibre bookshelf

Today’s Show and Tell is a new purchase. Newly landed from Amazon in yesterday’s post — and already destined to become a well-thumbed favourite — is Jane Patrick’s “The Weaver’s Idea Book: Creative Cloth on a Rigid Heddle Loom” from Interweave press. New out this week, I had mine on pre-order. Hardcover-spiral: 240 pages Publisher: …

Oh what a circus! Oh what a show!

I love Show and Tell – and just look what I have to show you today! My prize package from Rav user RogueKnit arrived today. We thought it had been lost in the post but it must just have been taking the long way around. This is the prize that she donated for the Most …