And..................................................................... hello. This transmission of knitting/crochet/outdoorsy trivia was briefly interrupted by an icky vomiting bug. I haven't knitted for several days. This is unprecedented. It's odd, and it's most definitely quite wrong. Please don't try this at home, people. (And sorry that I haven't responded to your blogs, either. I've missed reading y'all, and will try to catch up over the next few days.) But I have been thinking Continue Reading
Archives for July 2014
The Pig-Who-Says-Woof
Thank you for all your comments about which embroidery method to use on the knitted mandala. The balance of opinion seems to be with outlining the green, so I'll go with that. :-) Anyway, it's been bothering me, ever since a recent outdoorsy blog post. Merely mentioning The Pig Who Says Woof wasn't enough, was it? You need audiovisual proof, don't you, you discerning critics of animal weirdness? So the Toddler Twinnage and I returned to the donkey sanctuary, this time accompanied by the Stoic Continue Reading
Watchin’ The Swatchin’
Yay! The swatch-of-randomness for the knitted mandala picture survived its experimental wash-and-block! (Bet you've been on the edge of your seats about that one. ;-) ) So. It IS possible to wash-and-block a mixture of rich, inky Fyberspates green, with an innocent little Wendy 5-ply cream. Looooooooook! Admittedly, the washing was brief and minimal and in cold water, with a Dylon 'colour-catcher' as a precaution. But there didn't seem to be any dye on the colour-catcher at the end, so Continue Reading
Mostly Outdoors
This summer, the toddler twinnage and I are spending lots of happy time (and a fair ol' portion of grumpy grizzly Mummy-I-Want-To-Go-Home-NOWWWWWW time) outdoors. Much of this hasn't been compatible with knitting/crochet, but the toddler twinnage seem to be under the impression that I should actively parent them. So we've been to say hello to the rescue donkeys (where we met a pig who, rather confusingly, kept saying 'woof')... ...and I knitted my way to a music Continue Reading
Happy Cherries
Cherries are a happy fruit. I've blogged before about how our little Oxfordshire village was once the centre of the cherry-growing world. How many hundreds of years back our cherry heritage goes depends on which direction Google takes you, but I've seen mention of the 1500s, which is at least mildly impressive. There are stories of professional bird-scarers starting their work at 5am during the fruiting season. Frankly, that sounds like a job I could do, other than the getting-up-early bit. Continue Reading
Summer flowers
So, you'll maybe remember that in spring, I made a few collages of seasonal flowers in a rainbow pattern, here and here. T'was fun. Well, the season has marched on, as is its wont. And now we have summer flowers, with green ones even harder to find. Fortunately my lovely, horticulturally-talented neighbour has some green flowers to complete my montage. Witness:- Whilst I'm florally rambling like a wisteria on an ancient thatched cottage, let me tell you about the hollyhocks. I mention Continue Reading