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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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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Doppelganger
Have you ever knit an identical garment to one you’ve knit before and already have? On purpose? This week – that’s what I did… Do you remember how much trouble the lovely Ben was in after he put my beautiful Purl Soho Pullover through the washing machine and shrank it? ….It was only my favorite sweater, made with […]
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Hello Again!
Ohhh, that was a long break from blogging. As you can see – I’m not dead! 😮 So what’s been going on? Well, I’ve had a couple of huge projects stealing all my blogging time – one at work (which would bore you), and a huge disruptive one at home which is much more fun […]
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Red Eyed Owls and Tweed
This story starts when the lovely Blacker Yarns asked if I’d like a sample of their new Westcountry Tweed yarn – I said, “Yes please!” The story ends with this little guy… For those of you who don’t know Blacker Yarns, They are ethical, UK producers of 100% Pure, natural British yarns, products and patterns. […]
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The Unblogged Cowl
An unblogged project made it’s way into my 8th Blogiversary post – shocking! High time I told you all about it don’t you think? The cowl in question is “The Purl Soho Stitch Block Cowl” – a beautiful cowl using 3 different slip stitch patterns and written to use Purl Soho’s own Worsted Twist yarn. […]
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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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The Ones I Missed
I’ve just been looking at writting my Blogiversary post, summarizing the year’s knitting, and realized with horror – there are some projects I’ve never photographed or blogged! So here is a quick and dirty blog post of the ones I missed, Completed Knit Reports at the end… The Little Red Hat… A project to use up […]
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It Took So Long
Captivate has been a real slog to get finished. Can you believe I started it at the end of August? Four and a bit months to make – with a rather nice Kitten Head Scarf in the middle of it though! So why did it take so long? Tiny, tiny needles and me having a […]
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…