The Arne and Carlos giveaway is coming really soon. Disclaimer: I'm not actually giving away Arne and Carlos themselves - that'd be more of a coup than I can pull off. It's just signed copies of their books, OK? Meanwhile... Psst! Yes, you! Look! Over here! I've got things to show you. Good things. Entirely legal things, in case you're worried. One of the best aspects of blogging is getting to know other blogs, as well as the writers behind them. There's a treasure-trove of wit and Continue Reading
Archives for August 2014
Illuminated Crochet Hook Review
I was moseying around the internet the other day, when I stumbled across something intriguing. An illuminated crochet hook. How wonderful is that?! I ordered one because of my propensity for nocturnal crochet/knitting whilst various members of my household (the toddler twinnage, mostly) snore beside me in the bed. So I thought I'd do a product review, in case you too are tempted by the concept. So, introducing the Crochet Lite illuminated crochet hook, in this case supposedly a 4.5mm, Continue Reading
Blocking Your Knitting
Right. Before we begin, I just wanted to say that the (signed) Arne and Carlos giveaway is coming soon! As is a post about some rather gorgeously talented fellow bloggers and their amazing work. Meanwhile... Progress on the knitted mandala picture continues at a pace so slow that I was recently overtaken by a glacier whilst knitting. Having cut the steek to transform the mandala from a knitted-in-the-round tube to a flat piece, I decided to wash and block it, in order to enhance its Continue Reading
Tutorial: How To Steek
Steeking (aka setting your knitting up to be cut, in order to turn a knitted-in-the-round piece into a flat piece, for example to open up the front of a cardigan) tends to scare otherwise bold and courageous people. It feels vaguely wrong to take a pair of scissors to your knitting.Really, it shouldn't. Honestly. It used to scare me, until I tried it a few times, at which point I thought, "Is that all?" The secret is this: *whispers* Knitting doesn't especially mind being cut vertically. (Cut Continue Reading
Knitting Arne and Carlos
Oops, that was an especially ginormous gap. I have been here, at the brewery. And sometimes I've been knitting, but also I've been painting the living room (photies soon) and doing all sorts of other bits and pieces that sadly didn't involve yarn, such as doing final final edits on my MPhil in novel-writing degree coursework at three in the morning, and trying to remove rampant ivy (so dense that birds are nesting in it) from our tower, and digging the allotment, and seeing lots of patients Continue Reading