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Where Have You Been?

Published by on September 4, 2011 | 6 Responses

Oh Gosh! Over 2 months since my last blog post – you must be imagining the worst 😮 Massive apologies 🙁 Don’t panic! There is absolutely nothing seriously or medically wrong. I have just been struggling with a combination of my normal SKS (Summer Knitting Slump), loosing my beloved blogging muse, Thug (3 pictures of his daft […]

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Famous Friends – Janie B.

Published by on June 14, 2011 | 8 Responses

Squee! News, hot off the press from the Guilty Knitters…. We have a famous knitting designer friend in out midst! One of the founder members of the Guilty Knitters, Janie B., has been chosen to be one of the designers for the IKnit sock club.!! We (the Guilty Knitters) have watched Janie carefully work and […]

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Oh, This is Too Hard!

Published by on June 12, 2011 | 3 Responses

Ghaaaah!My head hurt from smashing it repeatedly onto my desk … This pattern is not well written. I’m still plugging away at Elizabeth from Kim Hargreaves. After finding the errata and having to reknit the back, I quite naturally, started on the front. (this post does get more exciting – I promise…) All was going […]

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The Kim Hargreaves Curse!

Published by on May 22, 2011 | 16 Responses

I think someone has put a “Kim Hargreaves Curse” on me! I love her designs but I keep on getting it wrong with stupid errors when I knit them! It’s not like I’m a beginner either is it?? They all turn out OK in the end but if I’m going to mess up it’s on […]

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Ohhh, Cashmere….

Published by on May 8, 2011 | 13 Responses

The green cashmere delight is done. Against the background of the most dull DIY project possible …painting the hall stairs, landing, coat cupboard and airing cupboard plain white instead of a horrid dirty, dark cream which was probably painted on 20 years ago… …With hands so rough from 2 days  sanding down paintwork that I […]

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Cashmere Cable Fun

Published by on April 24, 2011 | 12 Responses

Happy Easter! It’s a glorious sunny day and while lounging and knitting in the sunshine, I realised I  haven’t told you about my progress with the lovely green cashmere… I’ve completed the back and the front …but it’s the front I want to tell you about today. From Green Cashmere I love the way the […]

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Kindling my Knitting

Published by on April 16, 2011 | 8 Responses

It was my birthday a couple of weeks ago 😀 The lovely Ben bought me choccies (not good for the figure) and a bottle of my favorite scotch – Talisker -A Peaty one from the Island of Skye (not good for the figure either!!) and a wonderful geeky gadget – a Kindle!! What’s a Kindle?? […]

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I Need You for Socks!

Published by on April 3, 2011 | 6 Responses

“I need you for Socks!”, I said as I burst into the room. Ben looked simultaneously excited, confused and a little bit scared. “No, I said SOCKS – put these on and make pretty for the camera”, I said as I waved my latest piece of commuting knitting at him…. “Oh”, said Ben, “Socks…” He […]

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I Need a Luxurious Treat…

Published by on March 26, 2011 | 8 Responses

Firstly I must say thank you for all the wonderful message of support and sympathy on my last post about poor Thug. You have no idea how much you all helped me. Huge hugs to all you guys 😀 So. How has the knitting faired through all the upset? Unfortunately, I really wasn’t in the […]

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Thug

Published by on March 13, 2011 | 40 Responses

I am heartbroken to have to tell you, we made the painful decision to have Thug put to sleep Thursday evening. He has been showing his age and loosing weight gradually for the last year although the vet could find nothing wrong.  Over the last couple of weeks he suddenly got very sick and weak […]

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