WIPpie yi Ohhhhh

It’s WIP Wednesday, folks – and there is plenty of WIP-age in these here parts. The Colourmart Lovers competition closed yesterday at 5pm ((There will be a write-up soon, in the form of a new page up there ^)), leaving me with three projects uncompleted; one of these I regard as formally in hibernation now, …

WIP it Quick

Today’s Wednesday WIP is all but a Friday FO, in fact. This Amalia Shawl was cast on at the weekend and I finished it off at Spinning today, casting it off after the ladies went home. I knew as soon as I saw the pattern released on Ravelry that I wanted to make this shawl. …

I always cry at weddings

WIP Wednesday! WIPpage this week has been entirely confined to this little piece of froth… It is the rectangular stole version of Kieran Foley’s Teardrop shawl. I am making it in a 2ply alpaca blend yarn – Machair, from The Yarn Yard. There is some very subtle beading going on there, with 11/0 beads in …

WIP me nimble, WIP me quick… (or, if this is Belgium it must be…)

This post almost didn’t get written today. I could  have sworn that it was Tuesday…are we in Belgium yet? (ah, the sweet smell of frites…) Sorry, on with the business of the day: Knitting is definitely out of the doldrums and making headway with a  stiff breeze behind it. The breeze in this case being …

Some progress is better than no progress…

WIP Wednesday again. Already? Not possible!

Real life continues to intervene but I am slowly finding niches of time in which to play.

Progress report on Dido, ferry blankie, and some weaving…

Blankie progress

Here’s where the blankie was up to last night: Six squares knitted in, and some of the ends tidied up. Also, three more squares for the foundation row…