Woah, it's cold. Like, wearing-woolly-hats-inside-the-house-all-day cold. The Stoic Spouse is sporting headgear that makes him look like a burglar, but he refuses to be photographed for the blog. Anyway, who's in the mood for a giveaway to brighten up a dull grey-brown day? Do I see a hand raised at the back, there? (It's hard to tell through all this mist and drizzle.) Yes? So let me tell you about a children's book that's just this minute been published by Bloomsbury. Look! It's called Continue Reading
Archives for January 2016
Ooh Look, A Shiny New Knitting Magazine!
And now for a review. I don't know whether there's any truth in the old adage that there's somebody out there for everyone. Could be tricky if your particular someone is working the oil rigs off the Norwegian coast whilst you're herding llamas in Chile. However I do think that these days, there's probably a knitting/crochet magazine out there for every knitter/hooker: it's just a matter of trying a few until you hit the right one. Hence this post. The folks at De Agostini sent their carrier Continue Reading
This Really Is Terribly Important
So I'm busy writing an extremely important letter to the Met Office on the subject of SNOW. (For non-UK readers, the Met(eorological) Office is our publically-funded national weather forecasting/monitoring service.) Feel free to knit and crochet whilst I talk. Oh, and help yourself to some of that wine. So what do you think of what I've drafted so far? Dear Sirs/Madams (Madams? That sounds dodgy.) I am writing to respectfully request that you cease your current practice of knowingly and Continue Reading
Hunkering Down
January is a good month for hunkering down and getting on with some serious stitchery. Time to put the hours in to those projects where you're well past the 'Ooh, this is new and fun' stage and on to the 'Only another eleventy thousand purls to go and I'll have finished the left sleeve cuff' stage. Speaking of which, I've finally, finally finished my 'Thermal', which is a good thing because right now, it's all that stands between me and acute hypothermia. Look at that ice-cold background behind Continue Reading
In Which You All Get To Laugh At Me.
Smugness comes before a fall. Every time. I really should have learned that life-lesson by now. It never ends well when I start getting smug about anything at all. As soon as I do, life smirks to itself and throws a slippery banana skin in my path. Anyway, I mention this now because of running. I still dislike running. It still hurts. But I grudgingly admit that it's brought health/energy benefits and I'm definitely getting faster. I can even run up hills without concerned bystanders offering Continue Reading
Knitting The New Year In
It's grey and damp here, which is pretty much perfect weather for keeping your head down and knitting. Oh hang on, who am I trying to kid? Any weather is just perfect for knitting in my book. This may be the only advantage of being the sort of person who feels cold year-round. With sadness about the fatal fire at work, I confess that I've been craving mindless stitchery as a wee break from that crazy-but-monstrous crochet project. I needed to switch my brain off and work someone else's Continue Reading
So That Was 2015
Oh all right then, I submit. Every other blogger in the world has produced lovely collages of their stuff for an end-of-2015 post, so I suppose I should follow suit. Here are six images of 2015-y goodness from TheTwistedYarn. I hope you enjoy them. (And for those of you kind enough to have followed this blog a'while, I hope you don't expire through boredom from the repetition of these pictures.) So let's begin with some of the things that I designed from scratch in 2015. As you'll see, there's Continue Reading