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
(Yarn-) Bomb Da House
Do you think there's a yarn-bombers' secret charter? Because if there is, I must have broken all of its covenants. I mean surely, surely, rule number one would state, 'Don't be seen whilst you're yarn-bombing'? I have huge respect for whoever has been tiptoeing around our village at 3am attaching vibrant knitted pieces to our various bus stops, sign posts, and suchlike. I have never seen them in the act, although a lovely woman I met in the village shop dropped strong hints that it was Continue Reading
Almost yarn-bombing…
Happy and ever-so-slightly bonkers days are near. Here's a sneak preview of materials for the housey yarn-bombing. (There are knitted pigeons, too.) The stripes are to be sewn around the railings of the tower balcony. The big sew-up/reveal will be in a few days' time, but I'm away from home at the moment, visiting the put-upon parents in their home on the English-Welsh border. They're moving soon, and I'll miss the walk up the track by their house to see this:- …As admired by my Continue Reading
Yarn-bombing the house at last…
OK, before we get on to tonight's post proper, here's a peek at a bit of the afghan WIP:- When it's done, I'll buy y'all a drink to say thank you for your encouragement. And I probably won't crochet any more afghans for a wee while... although some even crazier projects are in the mental pipeline. Anyway, this is mostly a piece about yarn-bombing. Because as I've posted before, plans have been afoot to yarn-bomb the house. And I had a little reminder to get on with it the other day, Continue Reading
Yarn-bombing the house. Just maybe.
The crochet stained glass window is going well, but I don't want to saturate this blog with minute-by-minute pictures of every stitch. (Well actually I do, but I won't. Maybe I should introduce a knitting/crochet webcam. Though that might result in a few too many views of me crocheting in my pyjamas at 3am.) But other plans and ideas keep forming... The other day, I found this rather lovely image on Wildcat Designs' blog:- Photo from http://catameringue.blogspot.co.uk/. Reproduced Continue Reading
Seasonal perplexity
Yes, this blog really is primarily about knitting/crochet for my home, but it's taking (too) many days to knit/crochet us and our converted brewery house. Please bear with me. Housey finished objects will start appearing soon. But the twinnage needs some clothes:- Also, the Katia Azteca for the blog header still hasn't arrived. In the meantime, I offer you some non-knitty vegetative houseyness. We've got vegetative seasonal perplexity disorder here, and we've got it bad. Examples: Continue Reading