Just a quick post to welcome any visitors from the Ravelry group The Blog Hub. Hope you won’t be strangers for too long – WOOL|gathered welcomes new friends with quite a pathetic eagerness 🙂 Existing readers of a fibre frame of mind may be interested to note that The Blog Hub are organising Knit/Crochet Blog …
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Fo: A field of red poppies
My first lace shawl was an Evelyn Clark, the Swallowtail (I have knitted that twice). This is my first return to Evelyn’s designs. I like this one even more than the Swallowtail and wonder why it has received so little interest in comparison.
Details and gallery.
Project Tracker
EDIT: A surprising number of people have read this post and downloaded the files. Sadly, a completely unsurprising number have acted appropriately – zero. So, it takes very little effort to click and download. Does it actually take very much more to leave a two word comment behind you? A few “Thank You” messages would …
Not So Random Acts
I need to record the receipt of three RAK parcels, all originating from Ravelry’s UK Random Acts of Kindness group.
The first two parcels were from an alphabetic game – participants simply take the next letter free, and the previous participant sends to the new participant. That sounds really odd, doesn’t it? Illustrative Example: I signed up for R, so I received Q. I signed up for E, so I received D.
Confused? You will be! (yes, still watching Soap)
Random Acts
RAK posts usually get posted over at Fairhand but I am delighted to have discovered a Ravelry group, UK RAKs. And here’s my first parcel, ready to send, It’s an alphabetic organised (therefore not-so-random) activity and I am sending “R” – could you guess? That means that in time I shall receive “Q” – and …
Unraveled » Blog Archive » Who are Ravelry’s users?
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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