8th Blogiversary
8 years of blogging!!! I am definitely starting to struggle 🙁 Thank you if you are managing to put up with my infrequent blog posts. It has been a tough year – loosing Purcey in the summer hit us so hard. Nothing has been right since. My knitting seems to have been up and down too. Gaping necks […]
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Knitting Kittens of Bali
This post my contain sand, suncream and a just a little envy inducing showing off. It may also be clumsily typed and badly spelt because I’m fighting the auto correct on my tablet (not as easy to type as at my computer at my desk!) So what’s going on? Ben and I are on holiday […]
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Purcey
It has taken me over a week to be able to write this post. The most heartbreaking thing possible for us has happened. Two weeks ago Purcey was killed on a road behind our house. We went to bed Monday and he was curled up next to us. Tuesday we we didn’t see him at […]
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Free Tickets to Unravel!
After baring my soul and confessing to overspending on knitting lovelies, fate decided to tempt me…..with free tickets to Unravel! Unravel is an independent Festival of Knitting, held in Farnham, Surrey. Here’s a link to find out more –>>Unravel Festival So where did I get free tickets? First, I checked out the free online event […]
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The Purl Soho Pullover
I have been dying to start my Purl Soho Pullover that I bought on my trip to New York. This is the pattern pic… You can buy the pattern at Purl Soho’s website here –>> Purl Soho Pullover In this yarn – Purl Soho’s own worsted twist… I love that shade of blue – not […]
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7th Blogiversary
7 years of blogging my knitting adventures – that’s quite a long time. There have been times I’ve thought about stopping blogging but my lovely readers keep me coming back for just one more post – Thank you all for visiting 😀 The big non-knitting events of the year were my work trip to New […]
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Kidsilk Error
What’s that? Another new Kidsilk Hazealike yarn from Rowan, “Kidsilk Error”??? Errrm, No 🙁 It’s me making a huge blunder in the sales. I found myself at the John Lewis sale when the doors opened at 8:00am and dashed straight to the yarn department. I was overjoyed to find that one of the “Kidsilks” was […]
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Colds, Bathrooms and New York
So why haven’t I blogged for a while? <insert excuses here> It’s all been happening – A horrible cough & cold that has knocked me sideways (6 weeks and only just over it), a massive revamp of the bathrooms and loo in our house (plumbers all over the house for 5 weeks) and two back to […]
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Ally Pally – Too Many Goodies
I am living up to my membership of the Guilty Knitters as I am officially “guilty” of buying too much (again) at Ally Pally. I really needed a good day out and that’s what I had 🙂 So what did I buy?? You know how I need more Rowan Kidsilk Haze like a hole in the […]
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Making Sense of Vivaldi
Vivaldi’s construction is unusual so I wanted to show you the peices layed out before sewing up – Purcey decided to lend a helpful paw… He was quite well behaved and just observed the strangely short back… This didn’t last long… “I’ll just watch the strange shaped neck pieces….” Then I’ll kill that loose bit […]
It looks lovely, and ♥️ seeing your 2009 self 😁!
WOW!! It looks s beautiful. I took don't knit shawls because I never wear them. Yours would be beautiful as…
Absolutely GORGEOUS ! x
Well done Susan, it's fabulous 😍😍
Wow, love, love, love it. I am a shawl person and have a few favourites that I take on holiday…