2009. In the past year I have completed 36 projects
That’s an average of 3 projects every month, or one project every ten days.  I don’t feel like I could possibly have knit an (albeit small) item every ten days, but seemingly I have.  That’s 6 hats, 4 pair of socks, 4 scarves, 3 pairs of [...]

I have dabbled in the field of knitting magazines a little since I started knitting, but I’m sometimes frustrated by either the lack of editorial quality (the first magazine I bought was so riddled with errors throughout the one pattern I attempted that it was actually impossible to knit) or sometime what seems like a [...]

I have my first ever hand-dyed yarn.
I have bought, been given, used some gorgeous and varied yarns since I started knitting, but I have never before been lucky enough to own a skein of yarn that somebody has taken the time and effort to deliberate and select some beautiful colours for before applying them with [...]

Christmas cracker time:
Q: Why are Christmas trees like people that can’t knit?
A: They both drop their needles…
Well, thank goodness that is all over…  It will still be Christmas Monkey Towers for a few days yet, and hopefully I’ll get to enjoy the last few days of the year as I have spent the whole of [...]

I decided to make my own decoupage Christmas cards this year for various reasons including, but not limited to, the following:

I can’t get out to buy any
I thought it might be cheaper (or rather I wanted some quality for my money)
I thought that some folks might appreciate the thought
I am stuck in bed and a [...]

I had no idea what I was going to make when I stared knitting this.  Made from the remnants of an un-ravelled hot water bottle cover that I was knitting earlier in the year I thought I could get away with knitting something for my 6 month old niece purely on the basis that it [...]

I was overwhelmed by the thoughts and kind messages that I returned to on my blog when I returned home this afternoon.  I managed to bargain with the doctors to let me home early if I promised to stay in bed and take things easy, and I shall do, as long as my bed is [...]