I am often reading on the forums of Ravelry crocheters bemoaning the bias in the fibre world that seemingly results in crochet being seen by some to be a lesser craft to knitting. To be honest, I haven’t noticed it that much myself, but as I have been told in reply ‘ah, but you [...]

Yes, yes, you wouldn’t think it if you saw me bobbing around now, but when I was younger (much younger) I used to have ballet lessons, and I studied dance at university. ‘Entrelacé‘ was variously purred, sometimes barked (depending on if that day’s teacher was a cat or a dog – she could be both [...]

You know that someone has their finger on the pulse of modern style and taste when the reference Cliff Richard lyrics in their post titles.
The knitted vine you see below is my attempt to stem the slow, sad destruction of my faithful aural friends – my ear buds (or ear buddies, as I prefer to [...]

I have, for the first time, taken a lover. Formally monogamous, I thought it was time to expand my horizons and explore as yet un-tapped possibilities. Sure, I know that I always have the security of what awaits me at home, but what about those times away from home, when you’re feeling lonely? [...]

I have spent a lot of time next to the sea, relatively speaking.  Stood atop the cliffs of The Isle of Sheppey, in Kent, I was a literal stone’s throw away from the wide open ocean, and the exotic lands of, er, France and Holland, beyond.  This does not make me a willing sea-farer, though. [...]

Ooh, I am so very giddily excited to see my name and website address in print on a piece I wrote for the current Issue 22 of Yarn Forward, on sale from a couple of days ago (January 15th). It’s a two-page article on how to measure and make a pair of sock blockers to [...]

I thought I would take a few minutes today to answer a question that cropped up after my last blog post about working with Rowan bamboo tape and working out a way to join the yarns without having to weave the ends in after the event, namely, would the two ends pull apart if you [...]

I am trying to have a good think about what I can make with some Rowan Bamboo Tape yarn. I have a full skein weighing 50g, plus a few remnants which weigh just over 50g when combined, so the equivalent of two full skeins.
I have never worked with a tape or ribbon yarn before, [...]

Giantmonk’s new fair-isle tanktop slid off of the needles yesterday. His new (very fashionable) tanktop was a quick and easy knit, though as I had never knit such a thing, nor had I ever seen instructions for a tank top, it was very much and exercise in improvisation. It was soon quite obvious [...]

I’ve been doing a spot of spring cleaning around the blog, adding to the project gallery a number of finished knits that I had forgotten to include in the run-up to Christmas.  I also thought it was about time that I got myself some nifty little progress bars to log my progress on current projects [...]

Ladies and gentlemen please be seated, for Flossie Bear is about to make her debut:
Standing at roughly 40cm tall and as cuddly as a cloud, Flossie is complete.  I actually finished the project on Wednesday, with only her little face left to embroider yesterday evening.  I chose to embroider her features rather than use intarsia [...]

I love knitting stitch dictionaries.  They are perhaps my greatest knitting weakness.  I can spend (literally) hours leafing through the same pages over and over before beginning a new projects, armed with a selection of sticky-tab page-markers as I whittle down what I think will ‘work’, first marking about 20 or so for further consideration, [...]

Checking Ravlery when I switched on my laptop this morning (as much for it’s warming powers on my thighs this on this cold, snowy day as anything else) I had a PM from Alabama Whirly to say that I was nominated for…

How cool is that?  It took me a while to find the awards, and [...]

I first picked up a pair of knitting needles exactly two years ago today. I know this not because I have the date romantically emblazoned on my mind, but because I happened to notice the upload date of this, my very first knitted square, which I for some reason undertook to do in moss [...]

I have been very much enjoying knitting the stranded colourwork rows of the Flossie Bear pattern once I assured myself that I can knit this technique without stress or literally  tying myself into knots, scared to knit alone in the room lest my boyfriend return sometime later to find me bound head to foot in [...]