Posted in FO's, tagged drops pullover, handspun, Shetland on February 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have been MIA for a while (my mother is ill) but I have been knitting. I didn’t get as much done as I had hoped to have over half term. Isn’t that always the way? But, I did manage to finish the Drops yoke sweater.
Pattern: Drops Design 83-5 Pullover
Yarn: Shetland from a local [...]
Posted in Gardening, Spinning, Uncategorized, tagged corriedale, Spinning on February 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This weekend’s spinning looks very much the same as last weekends.
This is another 256 m / 280 yds approx. of the Corriedale, Silver Fox weighing 2 oz / 56 g.
It is a little darker overall than the last skein, though I’m not sure you can tell from this photo.
The newest is on the left.
I [...]
Posted in Knitting, Uncategorized, tagged drops sweater, EZ Pi Shawl on February 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.
Troll, Lillian on Goals
Quote from Quotations Book
I love the seasons. Each one has a beauty that is its alone. I couldn’t imagine living somewhere where the weather was the [...]
Posted in Spinning, tagged corriedale, Spinning on February 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Know when to quit!
Having tenacity is a good thing (mostly) but sometimes knowing when to quit and walk away can be just as important, if not more so.
On Saturday I walked away from this..
This Alpaca was a real steal, or so I thought. I bought it from an online retailer who I will not name, [...]
Posted in Knitting, tagged drops yoked sweater, sirdar supersoft on February 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In my last post I was musing about knitting a warm shawl for my Mum. She always gets something hand knitted from me for her birthday. SocksforMum suggested perhaps a heavier shawl such as Jared from Brooklyntweed recently knitted. Well, since when has a knitter needed any more excuse than that to start a new [...]
Posted in Cooking, Spinning, tagged bread rolls, handspun, Icelandic fibre on February 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Is it Wednesday already? I meant to get around to posting this on Monday, I’ve been a little busy.
As it is not yet time to start planting seeds, with the cottage very near completion and the weather at the weekend looking like this,
by Saturday mid morning, I was free to do some spinning.
As a break [...]
Posted in Gardening, Knitting, Socks, Uncategorized, tagged cable socks, yolk sweater on February 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So.. moving on from the other day!
A change of tack was in order following the ’spinning disaster’, so, after looking around (isn’t the internet a wonderful thing!) I think I have found an alternative use for it. This looks to fit the bill. Not too many colours involved as I don’t have [...]
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