Welcome to day five of the Stylecraft Blog Tour! Fancy a free pattern and a chance to win a whole caboodle of yarn, regardless of where in the world you are? Read on, Macduff... So, just for the benefit of anyone who is new round these 'ere parts, (hello at the back, there), a few months ago I co-judged Stylecraft yarn's competition to find a new shade for their range of Special DK. With me were the editor of Let's Knit magazine (who waited very patiently in the car park before we went in, Continue Reading
House!
T'was a beautiful clear night last night. The sort of night where you amble along in the peaceful blackness gazing up at the starry heavens... and then walk slap bang into a wall. Who put that stupid wall there, anyway? It's a ridiculous place for a wall. Only an idiot would build a wall right there. Given the rate at which they're building too many new houses in this village, you do have to watch out for sneaky new walls when you're out and about. Anyway, back to last night. I was on my way Continue Reading
Today We’re Mostly Pink And Orange
First, thank you all for your kind words about my risky felting, but to misquote a phrase, reports of the death of my washing machine are greatly exaggerated. After some enthusiastic but inexpert effort, I managed to unblock the beastly machine, and whilst it's still spitting out occasional gobs of pink felted fluff, it is at least functioning sufficiently to deal with the laundry generated by two potty-training toddlers. (We're talking a lot of laundry, here. Like, really, a lot.) Here's the Continue Reading
The Near-Disaster Of Felting The Knitted Bag
This blog post is jinxed, jinxed, I tell you. In the course of its making, I've broken the washing machine, over-shrunk a knitting project, mislaid an important piece of technology without which I couldn't finish illustrating the post, and almost flooded part of the house. I drafted the first, pre-disaster, part of the post earlier. It went like this:- Well, the Toddler Twinnage are abed, the Stoic Spouse is quietly playing 'Live Forever' on his guitar in the dark in another room, and I am Continue Reading