Yes, (on the off chance that you were about to ask) there is still time to enter THIS most fabulous and fluffy of giveaways! Go take a look! Also, if you're in the mood to win stuff and are reading this post within an hour or two of it being published, I designed and knitted a little decoration which could yet be yours through the Stylecraft Advent Giveaway, today only: look! So, yeah. Following this debacle, I had a post almost written about my change of plan, jumperwise:- But then Continue Reading
Blocking Your Knitting
Right. Before we begin, I just wanted to say that the (signed) Arne and Carlos giveaway is coming soon! As is a post about some rather gorgeously talented fellow bloggers and their amazing work. Meanwhile... Progress on the knitted mandala picture continues at a pace so slow that I was recently overtaken by a glacier whilst knitting. Having cut the steek to transform the mandala from a knitted-in-the-round tube to a flat piece, I decided to wash and block it, in order to enhance its Continue Reading
Watchin’ The Swatchin’
Yay! The swatch-of-randomness for the knitted mandala picture survived its experimental wash-and-block! (Bet you've been on the edge of your seats about that one. ;-) ) So. It IS possible to wash-and-block a mixture of rich, inky Fyberspates green, with an innocent little Wendy 5-ply cream. Looooooooook! Admittedly, the washing was brief and minimal and in cold water, with a Dylon 'colour-catcher' as a precaution. But there didn't seem to be any dye on the colour-catcher at the end, so Continue Reading
Knitted mandala in progress
Hello, yarn-loving friends. The biggest joy of blogging is to be amongst like-minded knitting and crocheting souls. You're all lovely. :-) The knitted picture of a mandala is coming along surprisingly fast. Twenty thousand stitches down, about forty thousand to go. Want to see? This photo doesn't do it justice. The blighter is knitted in the round, so you're only seeing just under half its width, here. And I've only done the bottom portion, so it's going to get a LOT bigger. So, what you're Continue Reading