Inspired by Jane Brocket, I’ve looked through my photos from this year and chosen one from every month (mine are rather less glamorous than hers though!) I’ve not used any particular criteria, just picked one that seemed to stand out from that month’s photos, either as a memory of a good day, or as a [...]
Archive for December, 2011
2011 – that was the year that was
Posted in Bits and bobs, Out and about, tagged 2011, photos on December 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Christmas cowl
Posted in Finished Objects, Knitting, tagged cowl, gloves, Knitting, snapdragon, tam, ysolda on December 30, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The last two years, I’ve come down with the lurgy between Christmas and New Year, but this year it came early, and started on the Wednesday before Christmas. I managed to go to work that day, and to our knitting group Christmas meal, but by the next day I was feeling dreadful (and rather damp [...]
From sheep to sheep
Posted in Finished Objects, Knitting, Spinning, tagged Handspun, hat, Kate Davis, Knitting, Sheep Heid, Spinning, tam on December 21, 2011 | 14 Comments »
Bear with me, I’m ridiculously pleased with myself today :) My Sheep Heid is all finished, and I’m as ever amazed that it is possible to turn this fibre (photo from Etsy listing) into this hat, with sheep and rams :) with just the aid of a spinning wheel and a pair of needles :) [...]
Looking sheepish
Posted in Knitting, tagged Handspun, Knitting, scissors, Sheep Heid on December 20, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I have sheep! The trouble with fair isle hats is that I become completely addicted to knitting them, I could hardly stop yesterday, I kept wanting to just finish one more bit. I should have read the various forum threads about the pattern before I started though, quite a few people who have taken part [...]
Ready to knit
Posted in Spinning, tagged Sheep Heid, shetland, Spinning on December 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I’ve finished spinning up my nine little packets of fibre for my Sheep Heid hat. It was interesting spinning four different fibres, and they’ve made nine pretty little skeins of yarn. This is the skeins before I washed them, with my hand for reference – they were skeined on a 1.8m niddy noddy, but I [...]
A Useful Thing
Posted in Bits and bobs, Knitting, tagged Ikea, scarves, shawls on December 14, 2011 | 7 Comments »
My lightweight shawls and scarves spent several years crammed into a drawer, with only the ones at the top being worn because it made too much mess to go down lower, but all that changed after my last trip to Ikea, where I bought a Komplement Multi-Use Hanger, and found a great use for it… [...]
Bits and bobs
Posted in Finished Objects, Knitting, Spinning, tagged fibre, Knitting, shetland, shopping, socks, Spinning on December 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Thanks to everyone who left lovely comments on Chickadee! I’m very tempted to start another cardigan, probably Cria, but I think I don’t want to commit to another big project so close to Christmas. But things are getting done :) Once again I’ve been doing lots of bitty things, wandering from one to another and [...]
Chickadee at last!
Posted in Finished Objects, Knitting, tagged cardigan, chickadee, Knitting, ysolda on December 12, 2011 | 7 Comments »
At last I’ve managed to coordinate daylight, clean hair and dry weather, and get some halfway decent photos of Chickadee. I hate winter, it’s so much harder to blog. I’ve already written about the problems I had with the sizing on the yoke, and ending up doing two lots of increases directly after the yoke, [...]
Quilts for Christmas
Posted in Finished Objects, Sewing, tagged quilting, quilts, Sewing on December 11, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Chickadee is all done, including the buttons, and I did have a go at photographing it yesterday, but I was tired and my hair needed a wash, so I’ve decided not to inflict those photos on you! I was going to have another go today, but it’s pouring down outside – maybe tomorrow. Here’s a [...]
Herdy heads for the hills
Posted in Bits and bobs, tagged Herdy on December 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’m getting on with my various projects – one quilt is done, and the other would be getting there if I hadn’t run out of thread. Sadly we don’t have a local sewing shop any more, so I’ll have to wait till I’m in town tomorrow to pick up some more. I’ve plied one bobbin [...]
