Whatever happened to your __________? Write about the fate of a past knitting project. Whether it be something that you crocheted or knitted for yourself or to give to another person. An item that lives with you or something which you sent off to charity. There are a lot of different aspects to look at [...]
Archive for March, 2011
Where are they now? – 2KCBWDAY4
Posted in Knitting, tagged 2KCBWDAY4 on March 31, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Tidy Mind, Tidy Stitches – 2KCBWDAY3
Posted in Bits and bobs, tagged 2KCBWDAY3 on March 30, 2011 | 9 Comments »
How do you keep your yarn wrangling organised? It seems like an easy to answer question at first, but in fact organisation exists on many levels. Maybe you are truly not organised at all, in which case I am personally daring you to try and photograph your stash in whatever locations you can find the [...]
Skill + 1UP – 2KCBWDAY2
Posted in Knitting, Sewing, Weaving, tagged 2KCBWDAY2 on March 29, 2011 | 17 Comments »
Look back over your last year of projects and compare where you are in terms of skill and knowledge of your craft to this time last year. Have you learned any new skills or forms of knitting/crochet (can you crochet cable stitches now where you didn’t even know such things existed last year? Have you [...]
A Tale of Two Yarns – 2KCBWDAY1
Posted in Knitting, tagged 2KCBWDAY1 on March 29, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Day One: 28th March. A Tale of Two Yarns. Part of any fibre enthusiast’s hobby is an appreciation of yarn. Choose two yarns that you have either used, are in your stash or which you yearn after and capture what it is you love or loathe about them. I’m a day late starting this, I [...]
Three down, six to go
Posted in Finished Objects, Knitting, tagged Knitting, socks on March 22, 2011 | 11 Comments »
My journey through my WIPs is coming on nicely – I’ve finished the third of the nine things I had in progress a few weeks ago. My Tulip socks, so called by me because the pattern and colour looks a bit like tulips lined up in vertical rows, but officially called Slip-Stitch Cable socks. I [...]
One year on
Posted in Admin, Finished Objects, Knitting, tagged Kidsilk Haze, Knitting, Purity shawl on March 21, 2011 | 13 Comments »
I can hardly believe it’s been a year since I started this blog. I have enjoyed getting back into blogging, although looking at my monthly post counts, I’ve not posted as much as I did at first – I suppose that’s inevitable. But I have kept up, which is fairly impressive for me, I do [...]
WIP Wednesday
Posted in Finished Objects, Knitting, tagged Knitting, socks on March 16, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I’m not really a joiner – as soon as I feel I have to do something on a certain day, I immediately don’t want to. But today’s projects are both WIPS, and it’s Wednesday, so I’ll hop onto the bandwagon for a short trip. After I finished my Citron shawl last week, I was very [...]
Five years in the making
Posted in Finished Objects, Knitting, tagged Beads, Kidsilk Haze, rowan, Victoria stole on March 10, 2011 | 15 Comments »
Back in April 2006, only a few months after I started knitting again, I bought my first Rowan Magazine (number 39) and was taken by the Victoria stole. I’d never knitted any lace before, but I didn’t let that put me off, and bought four balls of Kidsilk Haze in the same colour as the [...]
A Slice of Spring
Posted in Finished Objects, Garden, Knitting, tagged Citron, garden, Handspun, shawl on March 9, 2011 | 6 Comments »
And another one’s done! This was a very quick knit, only five days, but the yarn’s been waiting for the perfect project for much longer than that… It started out life looking like this – 100g of English Tops from Mam a Mi on Etsy. In November 2008 I spun it up. I can’t remember [...]
Radiant
Posted in Finished Objects, Knitting, tagged Citron Shawl, Radiance shawl on March 6, 2011 | 18 Comments »
This post should have appeared yesterday – I took my finished and blocked Radiance Shawl out with me whilst I was shop-sitting, so that my friend Jo could take some modelled photos, but I completely forgot to ask her to, so I’ve had to make do with the usual mixture of arms-length shots and the [...]
