Given that you're here, and assuming that you're not right now scratching your head and thinking "Hang on, this isn't the blog about oxy-acetylene welding that I was searching for,"* it's probably safe to assume that you're partial to looking at a bit of knitting/crochet. (I used to call it 'yarn p♥rn', but then I noticed that a few folk were landing here via some questionable search terms - and no doubt being deeply disappointed when they arrived - so I gave that up.) One of the best places Continue Reading
About A Chair
[whispers] It's done. Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time (an embarrassingly long time ago), there was a young psychologist who lived alone in a flat in Oxford. She loved her home very much and was happy there, but she didn't have much spare cash, so not being able to afford an antique overstuffed armchair on castors, she went instead to Ikea, where she bought a Poäng chair:- The chair served her well over the years, and was sat in without obvious complaint by a long succession of Continue Reading
Rhubarb!
All right, all right, you lot. I can see how titling a post 'Finished Object' might have given the teeniest impression that I'd finally finished that project. Sorry. But your comments have also nudged me to get on with final push towards completion, so thank you. Though when I do weave in the last end, I'll be posting under a considerably more hysterical title than 'Finished Object'. Look out for a post titled OMG, OMG, IT'S DONE, IT'S DONE, IT'S DONE! SQUEEEEE!!!!!!!! Unless the finished job Continue Reading
Back In The Crochet Garden
Dear blog, I've neglected your regular silliness business, what with all those giveaways and other stuff. So I thought it was high time to drop in on a project that's been slowly (very slowly) progressing in the background whilst I've been on here chattering about other things. Yes, if you've been reading here a'while: you'll know the one. The over-ambitious furniture-related one that began with a house, and which is now slowly (oh-so-slowly) acquiring a garden. It's so close to the Continue Reading
On Running
I've taken some better pictures of progress on the big crochet project. But before I show them to you, do you mind if I go off-piste, subject-wise? Because some things in life interfere with knitting and crochet time, and I want to grumble, if you'd be so generous as to indulge me. Here goes... I don't like running. I do it, on and off, because it's a cheap and outdoorsy way of keeping fit. And because, for as long as I occupy what would otherwise be useful space on this planet, I will Continue Reading
A Brief Word
A very brief one because, well, chicken pox. And a vomiting bug. Our house is not a healthy place just now. In a few days' time, I'm sure we'll swap round illnesses, just to mix things up a bit. But I just wanted to show you some progress on the big housey crochet project from before I got vomity. I've paused work on the garden to embroider some rambling roses all over the house, because no wonky ol' cottage is complete without a rosebush scrambling up its walls. I used some Rowan Fine Tweed Continue Reading