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So Beady, So Sparkly, So Beautiful

Published by on October 21, 2024 | 5 Responses

All reason deserts you. You don’t know when you’ll wear it but you have to make it because it’s so pretty and sparkly and beady and beautiful! I tried on the Extended Eyre Shawl from Coastal Colours and could not stop prancing around and posing in it. It had to be mine. The pattern was […]

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Check This Out...

Check This Out…

Published by on October 14, 2024 | 1 Response

I love a challenge. I like a pattern. I love gingham!

How could I resist this?

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Rock It Tee Two

Rock It Tee Two

Published by on September 29, 2024 | 2 Responses

Ben was flying off to Seattle again for work. Shamefully, I still hadn’t knit either of the beautiful skeins of yarn he had bought me back from Yarn Dragon in Pike Place. He’s a good man – going into a yarn shop on his own, discussing my yarn preferences with the staff and bringing back well chosen surprises. Although I have considered sending Yarn Dragon a photo of the lovely Ben with a message, “If you see this man looking for wife-treats, please send him home with XXX”!!! 🤔

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Lunenburg - Wearing it to Death

Lunenburg – Wearing it to Death

Published by on September 20, 2024 | 3 Responses

I’m so happy, I’ve worn Lunenburg for 3 weeks, almost non-stop 😍

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Gardengate Disasters

Gardengate Disasters

Published by on August 5, 2024 | 6 Responses

This is a tale of woe. And a new love, disaster, resurrection and final acceptance of failure.

…my fun with Gardengate by Jenifer Steingass…twice…

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Lunenburg - Different Kinda Shortrows

Lunenburg – Different Kinda Shortrows

Published by on July 25, 2024 | 1 Response

Lunenberg uses a different and ingenious method for shortrows.

At least – I hadn’t seen this before and, at first, I was mightily confused. I thought I’d write a quick post incase anyone else is as confused as me.

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International Yarn Smuggling

International Yarn Smuggling

Published by on July 18, 2024 | 2 Responses

Knitting brings out the criminal mastermind in me. My global network of knitting accomplices, assisted in covertly importing “the good stuff” for my next project. Was it Cracksilk Haze? (Rowan Kidsilk Haze to the unaddicted – one ball is never enough to satisfy!) Did it involve Drug Dealer Scales? No, this is Canadian branch of […]

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Love My Advent Sorrel

Love My Advent Sorrel

Published by on July 13, 2024 | 2 Responses

Oh My! I really love this Advent Sorrel even more now it’s finished 😍 She is warm and soft and perfect for an English mid-summer (which is very cold this year). It took 3 different skeins of green to finish the sleeves (Which look a little long in this picture??). I managed to bend all […]

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First Sorrel

First Sorrel

Published by on July 1, 2024 | Leave a response

I promised to show you my first Sorrel, made with Yarn for the Soul’s light fingering in 2021. Fell in love with the “Midnight is a Lonely Place” colourway as it reminded me of Van Gogh’s Starry Night (just been to an immersive Van Gogh exhibition!!) – Can you see what I was seeing? Most […]

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Advent Sorrel - A Head-Scratcher

Advent Sorrel – A Head-Scratcher

Published by on June 29, 2024 | 2 Responses

Advent Calendar mini skeins are delicious and addictive but a swine to use if you don’t want a shawl. Enter the Iridium inspired 2023 Advent Calendar from The Wool Kitchen. As it’s June it’s OK to show a spoiler of all the yarns in order… I loved the way they all blended and flowed into […]

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