I thought it was about time I put my twisty yarn around needles antics towards making something wholly encompassing and warm – a new sweater. It’s something that I always meant to do but never actually got around to doing – too much risk, too much time, too big a chance of failure. [...]

I couldn’t find a pair of buttons that I liked enough to provide a contrast to my hat, yet still compliment the design, nor blend in colour with the yarn to a degree that I found pleasing to the eye. Everything was too brash, under-saturated, or too cool a yellow to look nice. [...]

I have finished the knitting of my new hat, so now all that stands between its current state and completion is to weave in the ends, sew on the buttons and give it a god block. Actually, no – block the hat and make some buttons, then sew the buttons on. Either way, [...]

Alice in Wonderland is probably my second favourite1 book of all time, and definitely my most repeatedly read. I must have read it twice a year for a long stretch of my youth, so any new film adaptation is likely to at least pique my interest. Naturally a book so rich in imagery and [...]

I have been wearing the hat of much blue-ness over the last few days, every time I have popped out on errands, piling what might otherwise be messy hair inside and out of sight. Ah, hats, the lazy/busy person’s friend.
I don’t know if I like the colour, still, but I can appreciate that I [...]

So, the continuing saga of the Blue Winter hat…
Yesterday, I bundled the hat into a box containing a few items such as my camera, etc, and hid it away in my suitcase. When looking through this same box this morning the hat was gone. Did I not love it enough, causing the knitting gnomes [...]

The hat is finally complete! Complete and out of sight. Buried, in a box. A box in my suitcase. And why do I want the hat out of my sight for a little while? Let me recap a paragraph from yesterday’s blog post:
Secondly, I have never knit a slouchy hat, [...]

The Blue Winter hat is gathering pace as it approaches the finishing post.  Despite being a nice, simple hat, this project represents a few minor firsts for me.  For a start, I never knit with, or wear, blue.  So, why did I buy this yarn?  It was really cheap in a local closing down sale [...]

There is very little I dislike more than the apparent joys of travel. I hate packing bags, forgetting important things, lifting, pulling or otherwise mobilising heavy luggage amassed mostly of completely pointless and bulky objects. I dislike being without my home comforts and the things people, and places that make me happy.
So, as [...]

Emergency yarn from the Bay of E has arrived.
I couldn’t source a ball from the same dye-lot as the two I was originally knitting the hat with, and this salvage skein is significantly different in tone, hue and saturation from the original, and even the sheen of the yarn is different.  The blue of the [...]

‘The time has come’, Eskimimi said,
‘To think of other things:
Of hats and wool and stitch patterns
And whether you’ve actually checked the ball-band correctly to see if you have enough yarn to finish what you are knitting”.

Your Honour, ladies and gentlemen of the Jury, I admit that I have made a mistake.  A stupid, basic, knitting [...]

I decided that it was about time that I made a pair of socks that I will refuse to give away. As most past socks have been adopted by Craig, and knowing that no colour scares him, I have had to change tactics. Lace is the new weapon in my armoury, because though [...]

One of the uncertainties about making socks is the matter of fit. Compared to a shop-bought pair of cotton socks, hand knitted socks of wool and nylon can sometimes feel a bit restrictive if not made to exact foot measurements. A sock cuff that is just that tiny bit too tight might not [...]

Firstly, I wanted to say thankyou to everybody who took the time to take the survey – hopefully it wasn’t too harrowing recalling those repressed memories times when you naively approached a quaint looking yarn store, looking for a crochet hook…
There were 704 responses to the survey in all, and I’ll leave it to you [...]

Behold the Harlequilt Socks, in as highly saturated a combination of colours as Kaffe Fasett ever did conceive.
I am extremely happy with how these entrelac socks have turned out, but I am glad that they are finally complete.  I did feel the project started to drag on a bit after about the fifth entrelac row [...]