Oops, I've been a bit quiet on here. With apologies to my lovely bloggy acquaintances whom I've neglected. Normal chattiness will be restored shortly. Life has irritatingly intervened. I do wish it wouldn't do that. Doesn't it realize that I have priorities? Anyway, I'm still temporarily swerving a little away from the housey theme of this blog, to indulge my longstanding love of Adriafil Knitcol (not to mention my longstanding love of the toddler twinnage ;-) ) and make a few of these in Continue Reading
Archives for April 2014
Rainbow spring flowers
You'll know by now that I have a bit of a fing about rainbows. But if you saw my last post, you'll also know that I'm picking around with lots of little projects at the moment so don't (yet) have any major new knitted housey-ness to show you. Actually I'm taking a mini-break from the house-colouring theme of this blog to knit jumpers for the toddler twinnage in many shades of lovely Adriafil Knitcol. But I've been thinking about rainbows, too, in particular the beautiful spring flowers that are Continue Reading
A restless post of several little bits
Since the ridiculous, monstrous, ludicrous, in-what-crazy-state-of-inebriation-did-I-conceive-this-idea stained glass window afghan was finished, and also since the large crochet hippo settled in to life here in the old brewery, I've been picking at various projects in a desultory way. There's a jumper* in the background that gets a bit of attention late at night. There's yarn-bombing the outside of the house, very much a work in progress over the breakfast table. (Trust me, there will be photos Continue Reading
Meet Hieronymus, the happy hippy hippo
This blog is (supposed to be) about knitting and crochet for the home. Hence that bonkers, never-again-even-if-you-paid-me stained glass window afghan. (In case you're wondering, I'm currently sitting on the aforementioned afghan, and it's also liberally adorned with toddler porridge, Thomas The Tank Engine stickers, and assorted toys. Is nothing sacred in this house?? NOTHING?!) And hence the even more over-ambitious projects I've got planned for elsewhere in this old brewery. But. You Continue Reading