Difficulty Counting
My Tabby Cat is coming along well – that’s the grey, tabby-stripe jumper I’m knitting, not Purcey the new ginger kitten! He is coming along well too š I’ve done the back and front and was storming though the sleeve – it was very straight forward… …Cast on 68 stitches, do the beady edge, knit […]
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Introducing Purcey
I would like to introduce the newest member of our family. His name is Purcey….because he Purrs! Weāve had him since last Saturday but first visited and āchoseā him 6 weeks ago – itās been agony keeping him secret (just in case anything went wrong). Dad was a Ragdoll and Mum was a Ragdoll/Maine Coon […]
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Alright Mr De-Mille, I’m Ready for My Close Up Now
Who would have thought that my knitting could lead to me Ā becoming a film star! OK, Ā that’s overstating itĀ slightly š So here’s what happened… I was contacted by an independent filmmaker, via his wife on Ravelry. Sergey explained he wanted to make a short documentary about knitting to expand his portfolio and wondered if I’d […]
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Agile Knitting
Behold! I have discovered that I am an Agile Knitter!! Knitting while performingĀ aerobics? Standing on one leg while performing impossible feats of fairisle dexterity? Urm, no… Let me start at theĀ beginning, at work –Ā I don’t normally talk about work because it is “work” and this is a knitting blog and what I do for a […]
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I am Forgiven
I have finally been forgiven for being a bad, unfaithful wife and knitting for another man. How did Ben attain this state of nirvana? It only took me to knitĀ a beautiful pair of socksĀ and me to finish his Drifter š The finishing is timely – The weather here is still freezing and Ben has a […]
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Not Sure If These Count As “Successes”
Do youĀ rememberĀ the string Whale cat toys I made for Ziggy and Kitty ? These little beasties…. From Kitty & Ziggy A friend of ours has a new kitten and I thought I’d make a little whale toy as a gift for the kitten. Ben saw my “gift Whale” and said, “that’s nicer than the […]
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Kitten Mittens
āLeave all your other projects and make those, Susan!ā said Jenny. āI want to see a finished one.ā āAwwwww!!! So CUTE!ā said everyone else at Guilty Knitters (Even the non-cat lovers!!) So what could possibly be so cute and engaging that I would abandon my lovely Autumn RoseĀ Sweater and work on them exclusively? It was […]
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Travelling Socks
I usually have a pair of socks on the needles, Ā ready to grab and stuff in my bag to keep me company when I’m flying. Even the most rigorous airport security has yet to give me grief over a set of 2.5mm wooden dpns and a ball of sock yarn. I take socks on the […]
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Getting it Out of the Way
I don’t understand. It should have been a lovely knit – beautiful NimuĀ yarn and easy but interesting pattern.? So why was the Stripe Study Shawl such a boring slog to finish? I guess it’s because I had to rip it back and start again so I’ve probably knit one and a half of these not […]
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Being Bad…
So Heligan is at the “reknit the top of the sleeve and sew it up” stage – not my most favorite part…. And I have sumptuous new projects begging to be started from Ally Pally… And I a weak and weary from fighting off this stupid cough/cold/flu/bronchitis type thing… So have I diligently finished […]
It looks lovely, and ā„ļø seeing your 2009 self š!
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 šš
Wow, love, love, love it. I am a shawl person and have a few favourites that I take on holiday…