Can you hear that noise? That shrill, slightly irritating noise? That's me, whistling. Because I'm a bit over-excited today. The yarny bit of my prize from the Deramores Blog AwardsΒ has arrived. I'll show you in a minute, but first I want to feign a serious expression and show you a bit more of what I've been working on. Look! New project further progress, despite rampant over-exuberance:- And as of this morning, it has yarn! (Because my yarny prize from Deramores arrived at Continue Reading
Deramores Blog Awards
Gosh. :-) I'm writing this with an enormous smile because the big news, as promised last night, is that I've won the Deramores Blog Awards! Wheeeee! Frankly I'm honoured, surprised, and excited in pretty much equal measure, and I haven't stopped grinning since I learned the news. Hop over here to see the details if you're interested. I won the knitting prize, and a beautiful vibrant blog called Betsy Makes won the crochet prize (though I also can't help wishing there'd been a prize for the 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