I’ve been working up to doing some more dressmaking for a while now (I’ve even bought a dressmaker’s dummy, but it needs some, um, padding to make it even vaguely the same shape as me – more of that to come at a later date) and on Thursday last week I stumbled across the Sew [...]
Archive for February, 2012
A learning curve
Posted in Finished Objects, Sewing, tagged dressmaking, Sewing, skirt on February 28, 2012 | 12 Comments »
Blackberries!
Posted in Finished Objects, Garden, Knitting on February 25, 2012 | 4 Comments »
I’ve finished my cape at last! What started as a nice easy antidote to the tediousness of the moss stitch and cables of the chunky jacket rapidly turned into an even worse task when I hit the ‘raspberry stitch’ edging – it’s a variant of trinity stitch, and was tedious beyond belief. It ate yarn [...]
A bit of the other
Posted in Bits and bobs, Garden, Knitting, tagged Knitting, snow on February 15, 2012 | 5 Comments »
So, I’ve knitted a jacket and done some spinning, but what else have I been up to? Well, for a start I attended the annual Yarn Yard gathering, which they very conveniently hold at the Bar Convent, here in York, so I just need to hop on a bus each morning to join them. Sadly [...]
A little spinning
Posted in Spinning, tagged Spinning on February 14, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Okay, quite a lot of spinning! I seem to be in a bit of a spinny mood at the moment – the fact that I was knitting something I wasn’t enjoying but wanted to have done, so I didn’t dare start knitting anything else could have something to do with this… This is everything I’ve [...]
The moss stitch jacket of doom
Posted in Finished Objects, Knitting, tagged chunky, debbie bliss, jacket on February 13, 2012 | 9 Comments »
Every so often I start to knit something that I really want to have finished, but which saps my knitting strength horribly, and the jacket I started a few weeks ago was exactly that. Coupled with the general misery that is January, it’s meant that it’s all gone very quiet round here – sorry about [...]
