I have never been able to understand why someone might knit a facecloth.  That is, until I picked up an almost complete ball of Rowan’s new ‘Lenpur Linen’ at a charity shop for just 30p.    My trusty miniature scales told me that this little purple ball of yarn weighed in at 42g, [...]

It is that time of year when many knitters will be looking towards their stash with an air of panic, remembering the drunken resolution of last New Year’s Eve that saw them swear they’d pace their seasonal gift knitting through the entire year, and realising that they broke their promise almost straight away when they [...]

Attention, ‘ye sea-farin’ lot
Both Bones mittens are now complete.  I had some obvious issues with the suggested beads being too big to knit comfortably in pattern, but after strenuous and forceful blocking I think even Blackbeard himself would be accepting of them into his treasure haul.  Ok, maybe they are a bit ‘emo’ for Blackbeard, [...]

In my previous blog post I was in the process of experimenting with inserting pins through the vertical columns of beads on the fingerless mitts I have just finished knitting.  As I had written, the beaded skull and crossbones designs, as well as the surrounding knitting, were quite distorted and unattractive.  Perhaps I understated that [...]

I have made a small but happy update to the site and drawn some custom smilies for the comment sections.  There are (of course) sheep, different coloured balls of yarn and various items of knitwear.

I said goodbye to the 85% complete Edward’s Socks after finally coming to terms with the fact that I never had enough yarn to finish them.  I decided that the yarn needed to be re-purposed into something completely different, and so settled on a pair of fingerless mittens/arm-warmers, mostly because I already had the beads [...]

It feels like knitting has more meaning when a warm hat can be pulled fresh from the needles and appreciated on a crisp autumn day.  I do knit in the summer months, but there is something distinctively homely about knitting woollens as nature puts a nip in the air and spins gold into the sunlight.

Autumn [...]

A couple of days ago I finished a scarf made from some yarn which had been hanging around me, ignored, since I started knitting.
A simple feather and fan scarf it was simple enough to knit, but exciting for the fact that it gave me my first opportunity to try and block some simple lace.  I [...]

Recently I questioned myself and any passing readers why you choose to knit as a pastime or craft.  One blogger that responded was Funkyflower, asking in turn where do you knit?
I’m a creature of habit, and now I think about the places that I knit I realise that 90% of the time it is in [...]

I have blocked a few things before. In fact, I block most things, from socks to cushion covers, just because I like them in their perfect flat form, but I have never used the process of blocking to fundamentally alter the structure and appearance of a piece of knitting beyond tidying and refining my [...]

Knitting has recently been given a bit of publicity in the British press.  The Guardian tells us that activities such as knitting can make us both greener and happier, whilst The Times calls it ‘the trend that won’t die’, but one story that keeps on being re-hashed is that more and more of us are [...]

During what will go down in my personal history the ‘yarn drought’ of Late September 2009 I found myself slowly working towards my last ball of yarn.  It was always going to be the very last ball of yarn I tackled, because I had made up my mind that it was decidedly unlovely, and something [...]

Cute and very warm hat, and an especially fast knit. Made from a single 100g skein of bulky yarn (Álafoss Lopi was used in the hat pictured) it is a perfect instant gratification project for the onset of the colder months of the year. With cute elfin shaping at the top of the [...]

It is the month of Blogtoberfest, so I have been told… A month of daily blogging.  I actually didn’t find out about this until it had already started, but I thought it was done in great spirit, and something which I’d wish to embrace in my own way.
Sometimes it can be difficult to find that [...]

Strap yourselves in, this post is likely to be quite long…
A few evenings ago I cast onto some exciting new needles with a head full of ideas and visions of projects.  After casting on and knitting merrily away for a row or two I soon started to notice a tingling fatigue in my left hand, and [...]