Bobbin’ along

Well, I managed to do some spinning today in between making coffee and serving cake (Date and Walnut, plus stem ginger cookies today) I am quite pleased with the way in which this fibre is spinning up, and so quickly too.  Still uncertain about the colour, though. Still no football for Nell, no yarn, and …

Doing anything this Saturday?

PuzzleCrunch 2008: Welcome This one is 24 hours only, beginning 10:00 Central Time… that’s 4pm BST, for the Brits amongst us. Twelve puzzles and a meta puzzle. This one has PRIZES! PuzzleCrunch is sponsored by Amazon and Microsoft. Prizes include copies of Halo 3, Microsoft hardware, hats, shirts, and a Kindle! (And CISRA puzzles, start …

SLEDGEHAMMER > nut ?

Knitting Software Swatch Wizard Is it me? Is it? I mean, yes, you can go about it that way around if you want to but… why not with a pencil and a piece of paper… or a spreadsheet, if you must… but a software package?! To calculate gauge? *dumbfounded*

Bank Job?

You know that I said that I needed to unsub from the Yarn Yard news and RSS feeds because I cannot afford the temptation? Well, I didn’t yet. And now Natalie has instituted a forthcoming updates posting *and* a new and wonderfully evocative naming scheme for her yarns and fibres: The Yarn Yard – The …

This is what knitting is for…

How quick was that? www.mazzmatazz.co.uk – Adipose Check out the Ood, too. I rather like the Face of Boe… …knitted TARDIS, anybody?

Needles on Fire: Camellia

I love Kate Gilbert’s Camellia sweater… Needles on Fire: Camellia