Mother’s Day Knitterly Fun
A ball of sock yarn seemed an inadequate gift to give my Mum for Mother’s Day. Hmmm… My Mum, an expert knitter of several decades, recently rediscovered knitting socks on four needles. A skill she first learnt as a child in school in wartime England. After a celebratory “Mum’s day” roast dinner, while I was showing her how to […]
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Fabulous Day Out with Purl Alpaca
Ben is a wonderful husband. Guess what he bought me for Christmas? A knitting workshop with Purl Alpaca 😀 I have knit several kits from Purl Alpaca and was thrilled to spend the day with Tracey,the Alpaca farming half of the business and Kari-Helene, the knitwear design half. All the sample garments were arranged around the […]
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Disaster, Woe, a Success and Some Fun
It’s been a week coloured by knitterly disaster and woe – then it improved… Disaster: I lost a sock. Not just any sock. I lost the completed, beautiful first sock of the pink, orange and purple entrelac socks I was making 😥 This is the last picture I have of my lost baby…. “What happened?”, I hear […]
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Catching Up After the Dreaded Lurgy
I had a nice long break from work over Christmas and planned to catch up on all the projects I have yet to blog…and catch up a whole list of other thing! Instead, I have spent most of my time either in bed or semi conscious on the sofa under a blanket sniveling and coughing, trying to […]
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Crazy Hippy Hexasocks
Ben wanted some colourful “hippy socks” for weekend sitting around. He got more “Hippy” than he bargained for!! These are the Hexagon socks from Knit Outside the Sox, the book I showed you in my Ally Pally Post. This book… There are a dozen patterns in this book I want to make but, true to […]
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Cyrene: So Many Compliments – I Must Make Another!
I am so pleased with my Cyrene Jacket, I’m resisting the temptation to just cast on a second one! I finished Cyrene the morning I went to the Ally Pally Knitting and Stitching show. Actually, I finished it the night before…then realized I had seriously messed up casting off the collar so got up extra […]
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Choices: 7 Fugly Scarves or…
I was given 7 skeins of chenille “Fun, Mesh Scarf yarn” recently – a barista at our Sunday morning Guilty Knitters Coffee shop had rescued it from the bin when a friend’s shop was shutting down. She thought of us knitters and I wasn’t going to let the fact it was truly “Fugly” yarn make me waste […]
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Ally Pally – Fully Laden
It’s that time of year again – Where I shamefully confess (But inwardly giggle with glee) to utter indulgence at the Alexandra Palace Knitting and Stitching Show 😀 I went Thursday, set an overly generous budget and managed to spend most of it! I was bad… I know some of my readers will have gone […]
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Finished the Lovely Chocolate
No, I don’t mean I have scoffed an entire box of chocolates! How could you think I was so greedy?! I mean, I have finished the cardigan I named “Lovely Chocolate” – it was an inspired name because the pattern is called “Lovely” and the colour I made it in?? Yes , chocolate brown…. I showed […]
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Enough FOs! Here’s a couple of WIPS!
I thought you might be getting bored with “here’s another completed FO (Finished Object)” so here’s a quickie post about what’s on my needles right now… I have 2 WIPs (Works in Progress) – Gasp! 😮 I know I normally only have one WIP because I like to focus on one thing at a time […]
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…