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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

I’ve never really given stranded knitting techniques much of my attention.  I do absolutely love the effect, but as I pursue knitting as a relaxing exercise I have often not given it much time as I have shied away from the thought of managing several colours, several balls of yarn, at once.  Debbie Orr (AKA [...]

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 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 [...]

This will be my last post for a little while now as I am going into hospital for a spell (though hopefully not too long) where I shall probably have say goodbye to my needles and the internet for a bit whilst I recover.
Knowing that I had this hospital stay approaching, I have been trying [...]