YES! THE LOVELY, YARNY GIVEAWAY IS STILL OPEN FOR JUST A FEW MORE DAYS! ENTER HERE! Meanwhile, would you like to make some super-easy Christmas decorations? See the links under the photos throughout this post. It has been brought to my attention by my children, as well as via the subtlest of hints on social media, that it's nearly Christmas. Now I realize that you and I may be sitting on opposite sides of the table regarding the matter, but personally I have a very strict routine for Continue Reading
Christmas
So for those of you of a Christmassy persuasion, how was your festive season? As usual we hosted here at the brewery, but I confess that I wasn't really feeling it after the fire (and some further sad events) at work. Instead, I had an urge to creep away to a quiet corner and think about stuff, which obviously wasn't going to happen with small, excited twins in tow. Fortunately the Stoic Spouse did a sterling job of feeding us all to the point of near-bursting, whilst I was in charge of Continue Reading
Semi-Actively Christmassing
If you're on Facebook then you'll know about that feature where they show you things that you posted on this date however many years ago, and then give you the option of making a nostalgic repost of your drunken shenanigans or baby photos or heartfelt plea for the rights of narwhals. Well apparently, this exact time last year I was grudgingly acknowledging that I would need to begin thinking about Christmas at some point this month. Plus ça change. (No, I didn't accept the repost option today: Continue Reading
Christmas Decorations To Knit And Crochet
Now, being a finger-on-the-pulse sort of blogger, I'm well abreast of all things sparkly and nowish. Oh yes indeed. (I'm also immeasurably modest.) I keep my ear so close to the ground that earlier today I was head-butted by a worm. But you'll be completely gobsmacked to learn what I've discovered this time. Honestly, this one is big, so big that it was almost worth enduring the worm-butting. Almost. Are you ready? Yes? Knitters and crocheters of the world, apparently it's nearly Continue Reading
Knitted Father Christmas
What? What? More Christmas makes? Well... yes. Because now that the TheTwistedYarn has turned on the festive ideas tap, it just won't stop dripping. Somebody call a plumber. So, assuming that the easy-to-knit Christmas trees were on the favourable side of tolerable, here's another easy decorative knit for Christmas. I'm deliberately creating the simplest, most beginner-oriented designs, involving nowt more taxing than a garter stitch square. And in case even that sounds daunting to complete Continue Reading
Knitted Christmas Trees
Right, people. Just this once, I'm going to break the habit of a lifetime, and mention Christmas before mid-December. This really doesn't fit with my miserable, curmudgeonly ol' personality, but I have things to show you, pretty Christmassy things, and they won't wait. Also, we normally have nine of us gathering here at our old brewery for Christmas, and my lack of prior festive organisation is impressing no-one. So. Decorations. What are yours like? Obviously, you need some knitted or Continue Reading
Knitted Reindeer Head
Well, operation Christmas is in full swing. The tree is up:- I've begun Christmas shopping. I've started replying to emails asking "What do you want for Christmas?" The stoic spouse has experimented with a different form of roast potatoes for each of the past seven nights, ahead of his culinary efforts on the big day. And the reindeer head I knitted a few months ago has been brought downstairs and adorned with baubles:- Other than writing my cards, tidying the entire house, Continue Reading
46 000 tiny stitches finished! Yay!
46 000 tiny little stranded stitches on 3mm needles finished! Wheeeeeeee! Ten balls of 4-ply yarn (Rowan Fine Nordic Tweed, ordered from Deramores). This is the second side of the cushion I'm making for our Victorian box settle:- I love the bracken design - it'll make me think of the wilds as we set off on our walks. Not that there's any bracken round here. So I knitted the triumphant last row. And I sewed my steek stitches to reinforce them before cutting:- Before I blocked Continue Reading