I'm not trying to put you off my coming-soon pattern... but I'm probably about to put you off my coming-soon pattern. I've been busy making one of each colourway of the crochet version of the Four Seasons cowl, after working the four colourways of the knitted version, and creating the original as a 50th birthday present for a lifelong friend. That's quite a lot of spotty stripey cowls. I'm kind of over it, truth be told. Yikes, I shouldn't be grumbling about a product that I'm about to Continue Reading
Ridge And Furrow, Gone Tomorrow
Whilst we knit/hook, shall we indulge in a little ancient history? So on a scale from 'bewildered' to 'undisputed world authority', how au fait are you with the concept of ridge and furrow? I have to ask, because I tend to assume that if even I know something, then it really must be painfully obvious to everyone else. Long car journeys of my childhood often involved spotting examples of ridge and furrow in fields beside the motorway: it's pretty distinctive once you know what you're looking Continue Reading