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A Stitch In Time Vol2

Published by on November 12, 2011 | 8 Responses

Excitement this week – My copy of A Stitch in Time Volume 2 arrived. Susan Crawford even signed it for me – Thanks Susan! It’s this book From Top Secret 2 It is a HUGE book, ram packed with 120 fantastic patterns from 1930s – 1959. All graded and made with modern yarns. Some are […]

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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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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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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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The Joy of Late Trains

Published by on January 23, 2011 | 4 Responses

Knitting has a wonderful ability to change my response to situations. My trains have been late, cancelled, crowded and generally a disorganised mess since the snow in December. MPs are now involved and there is a growing call for Southeastern Trains to loose their franchise all together. As a beleaguered daily commuter on this shabby […]

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4th Blogiversary

Published by on January 14, 2011 | 9 Responses

Today is this blog’s 4th blogiversary! When I do an annual review of my knitting and blogging achievements, I’m astonished that I’ve kept it up this long. It would never have kept going if you lovely readers hadn’t kept on commenting and encouraging me – Thank you!  😀 I looked back to see what I […]

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Yarn Sales – Being Good, Bad and Disorganised…

Published by on January 4, 2011 | 8 Responses

Christmas is over and that means just one thing to me – The Bluewater John Lewis yarn sale!! Most of my ridiculously obese stash can be blamed on the temptation of those wonderful reductions on Rowan yarns 🙂 Apparently, there is a sale in the rest of the store too but I’ve usually spent all […]

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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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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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