Meanwhile here at the brewery, it's raining. So that means no fancy brewery-housey yarn-bombing big-reveal photos quite yet, because dreary grey drizzly rainy background just wouldn't do them justice. But that's no bad thing, because being congenitally over-ambitious, I've had further ideas for embellishment since my last post. Who knows where this'll end? Somewhere ridiculous, that's where. Somewhere that'll result in me being drummed out of the parish by a committee of more Continue Reading
Archives for May 2014
Almost yarn-bombing…
Happy and ever-so-slightly bonkers days are near. Here's a sneak preview of materials for the housey yarn-bombing. (There are knitted pigeons, too.) The stripes are to be sewn around the railings of the tower balcony. The big sew-up/reveal will be in a few days' time, but I'm away from home at the moment, visiting the put-upon parents in their home on the English-Welsh border. They're moving soon, and I'll miss the walk up the track by their house to see this:- …As admired by my Continue Reading
Knitted planets. Crocheted birds. That sort of thing…
Well, the globe is finished. I'm not sure what to do with it now, though: the toddler twinnage don't seem ready to consider our speck-like position on a beautiful green-blue planet, so its educational potential remains unfulfilled. Instead, one half of the twinnage tentatively asked whether the globe might be employed in a game of football. I frowned, and directed them towards the perfectly serviceable leather ball in the garden. They slouched off to kick some gravel at the fence as an Continue Reading
Spring stitchery
Sometimes life is hard. Sometimes - unless you're very unlucky - life is good. The last few days have been particularly good here at TheTwistedYarn, (which no doubt means that everything will go catastrophically wrong tomorrow). The Toddler Twinnage have played adorably, the stoic spouse has spent happy evenings preparing to lay model railway track in the back garden of our brewery home (don't ask), and I have had some peaceful knitting moments in the spring sunshine. The other day, on a Continue Reading
Designing Stranded Motifs… Is Actually Rather Easy
The only difficult things in knitting are the techniques you haven't tried yet. When I was a beginner, I looked at all that beautiful knitted colourwork out there - fairisle, especially - and I thought, 'Well obviously, I could never do that'. And so I couldn't, right up to the moment when I picked up my needles and tried. Because let's face it, less competent people than us have produced truly beautiful work. And once I'd mastered stranded work (of which fairisle is an example), I got Continue Reading