I've just completed winter. Not actual winter, since it's August and we're in the northern hemisphere, but the chilliest colourway of the four-season cowl design that I'll be publishing shortly. But as I said in my last post, this is a British winter, so discard any notions of sparkly white snow against a blue sky, and instead embrace the dank and soggy undertones of sludgy reality. They're quite pretty once you get used to them. The yarn is Stylecraft Highland Heathers DK. Next up on my Continue Reading
Winter Knitting
A small quiet post for a cold, cold December evening. Come sit here beside the fire and tell me honestly what you think of these fat green olives. Oh, and do have a dribble of rioja, too. We've been hunkering down for winter here at the brewery, a statement that I appreciate will sound faintly ludicrous to those of you blessed/cursed with proper winters. In my defence, all I can offer is this: ice-on-the-inside-of-the-windows. Not now, obviously, but sometimes. Time, I think, to head off Continue Reading
Knitted blog header
It's done! The knitted blog header is finished. :-) Actually it was finished a while ago, but I've only recently decided that all the knitted/crocheted flowers round the edge were a bit OTT, so they've been abandoned. (I may have to use them to yarn-bomb some plant-pots.) I hope that what you see above is the finished header. It didn't photograph very well... and its proportions are all wrong for the Wordpress header shape... and I was unsuccessfully trying to fend off twinnage while I Continue Reading