Good morning, yarn-loving friends. May I bend your ear about something exciting, please? (It involves knitting and saving money: you're going to like it.) Sorry folks: discount has now expired. There's a designer of seriously stylish knitwear out there and if she's not already on your radar, she really should be. (Nobody is paying me to say this, I promise.) When I first saw her work, I gasped. I wish I could have shown her designs to the woman who once said to me, "You knit?! Oh... so do Continue Reading
Semi-Actively Christmassing
If you're on Facebook then you'll know about that feature where they show you things that you posted on this date however many years ago, and then give you the option of making a nostalgic repost of your drunken shenanigans or baby photos or heartfelt plea for the rights of narwhals. Well apparently, this exact time last year I was grudgingly acknowledging that I would need to begin thinking about Christmas at some point this month. Plus ça change. (No, I didn't accept the repost option today: Continue Reading
Knitted Father Christmas
What? What? More Christmas makes? Well... yes. Because now that the TheTwistedYarn has turned on the festive ideas tap, it just won't stop dripping. Somebody call a plumber. So, assuming that the easy-to-knit Christmas trees were on the favourable side of tolerable, here's another easy decorative knit for Christmas. I'm deliberately creating the simplest, most beginner-oriented designs, involving nowt more taxing than a garter stitch square. And in case even that sounds daunting to complete Continue Reading