I kid you not, it is like being back in the middle of winter here. It is wet, grey, windy and quite frankly, dismal. There is very little available light in the house, making any kind of close work difficult. Gill brought me some more Art yarn today and I have wound both it and …
Tag archives: Pavonated
Curlylocks, wilt though be mine?
Blocking a Curl is actually good fun. It’s quick and relatively easy. Use of one wire is helpful. Next, pin out the long curved edge. I find it useful to put a few pins in the top edge to help me get some tension. These I then remove as I go, so that the short …
The Aga Can
It has been a while since we had an Aga update. I suspect this is largely due to the fact that when the warm weather arrived, we turned it off. I switch the hob on to cook most days but have not used the oven a great deal recently. Mr L says that the Aga …
In brief
The cotton/cashmere skeins are still not completely dry. The alpaca ones are pretty much there so I have twisted them up and will put them away in the caravan this afternoon. I can’t wait to make a start on the jumper but part of me still feels reticent and wants to wait until I see …
I coulda’ been a contender…
Some days one wakes up with such a degree of clarity… knowing that idiocy is one’s natural state. Remember when I went out to check all my WiPs and UFOs, to see what might be completed in time for the Show this year? I found very little. Well, I should like to know why somebody (yes, me) …
Up with the lark
There is a fortune waiting to be made by the person who invents, develops and markets the first smoke detector to intelligently announce the demise of its batteries only during waking hours. 04:14 hrs is not the time to be suggesting that we identify which alarm is complaining and then to find a battery for …