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I’m a Teapot

Published by on December 19, 2010 | 9 Responses

Do you ever get one of those knitting projects you just can’t put down and they are a delight in every detail? I’ve just finished one of those rare beasts – lucky me! 😀 I cast on “I’m a Little Teapot” on last Saturday with the intention of it being my new commuting project – […]

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Exciting News and a Hat…

Published by on December 11, 2010 | 17 Responses

I started a new new role with work 3 weeks ago and it has stolen all my knitting time. 🙁 Well… the new role plus the horrendous commuting through the 14″ snow  stole my knitting time. I’m in an area where an inch of snow that stays two days is considered an ice age!! More on […]

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Cutie for a Baby

Published by on November 15, 2010 | 11 Responses

With all the fun of sorting out the Knit-Room, the only knitting that has been done has been a gift for a baby – Let me tell you how that started… While working together,my friend and colleague, James, made the fatal mistake of complimenting my laptop wallpaper and asking what it was… This picture… From […]

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Populating the Knit-Room

Published by on November 8, 2010 | 19 Responses

The last couple of weeks have been fun in the Knit-Room – more screwdriver action than knitting 🙁 I do have lots to show you though- Prepare for photo overload 🙂 New carpet is down and nice Mr Ikea has left me a huge pile of stuff to build. All there was to do was […]

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So Cute I Had to Have It.

Published by on October 26, 2010 | 7 Responses

I’m desperately struggling not to rush out and buy little boxes and ornaments and general fripperies for my Knit-Room. I need to build the furniture and start putting all the stuff away, decide what I need ( and have room for), THEN go shopping…Probably with Ben holding my credit card to prevent bankruptcy. But, but…… […]

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Project Knit-Room

Published by on October 25, 2010 | 10 Responses

I have been very jealous since “Project ManCave”. Project ManCave was where we took a nasty, grubby little bedroom full of boxes of Ben’s toys and general Geekery… From Knit-Room …redecorated, replaced the carpet with a lovely rug (which can be found at various NW Rugs locations) due to a leaking radiator incident… From Knit-Room […]

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Getting Lost Has It’s Benefits

Published by on October 16, 2010 | 5 Responses

I’ve finished Ben’s Second Chance Hat.. See here for the reason for that name! I made particularly quick progress returning from Bristol on the train – for all the wrong reasons…. Happily head down and knitting – I looked up and didn’t recognise the next station… “This train is going to London Paddington isn’t it?” […]

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Just One Little Kidsilk Fix Won’t Hurt?

Published by on October 15, 2010 | 7 Responses

I’m weak. I admit it. I struggle with my well documented Cracksilk Haze addiction … When I did my Kidsilk Haze workshop, Sarah Hazell, the tutor, mentioned to me that there was an unreleased shade of KSH available for Jannettes Rare Yarns… I was good and didn’t rush home and buy it…. Unfortunately, the exact […]

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Quality not Quantity

Published by on October 14, 2010 | 8 Responses

I took a whole day off work last week, met up with 4 of the Guilty Knitters (Hello to Mel, Judie, Glaucia and Jeni 🙂 ) and had a great day out at the Alexandra Palace Knitting and Stitching Show. (Or Ally Pally to anyone from this corner of the Globe) We battled against signal […]

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False Start – Then Progress

Published by on October 3, 2010 | 5 Responses

Yarns firmly under control, I was whizzing along with Flag and getting through the rows on the chart very quickly – too quickly – alarmingly quickly….. Bugger! I had managed to misread this very large, clear instruction at the top of the chart (I’m doing size “S”)… From Flag I read one square as “4 […]

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