The other week was - and I'm not even exaggerating - a bit of a week. There was an excess of trouble that I longed to bury deep in the compost heap of history under several centimetres of turnip peelings. It was nothing terrible, and I do have some perspective on my comparatively privileged life, and there's DEFINITELY NO NEED TO POST ALL THE COMPENSATORY WINE TO ME HERE AT TWISTED TOWERS, OXFORDSHIRE, UK, RIGHT NOW. NO, NONE AT ALL. But in addition to the usual daily rigmarole, this particular Continue Reading
Chicken
Against my limited better judgement, I've been playing yarn chicken with a cardigan. This unequal match between knitter and wool has been ongoing for two whole years. It's important, you see, to act casual around the yarn so that it doesn't sense your fear. (To briefly explain yarn chicken because I know that some people read here who don't - yet - knit or crochet, the term describes the situation in which your remaining yarn may or may not be sufficient for the current project, so you knit Continue Reading
Craft With Style(craft)
Hello again, my Fine Fibrous Friends. Speaking of fibrous, it's been a blissfully yarny time of late. For the first time since covid trampled on everyone's plans with all the malevolent energy of an overtired toddler, we've had a proper face-to-face meet-up of the Stylecraft Blogstars. Stylecraft did their utmost to keep things Zooming along during the pandemic, but... it wasn't the same. Absolutely not Stylecraft's fault at all. They did their very best. Stoopid covid. Anyway, the weekend Continue Reading
The Wrong Ystradowen
We all make mistakes, right? Errors such as thinking, "I can finish knitting this jumper before my friend's birthday." Or deciding that of course you'll remember what size hook you were using to crochet that half-done afghan. The Stoic Spouse has a foolproof method for avoiding knitting and crochet mistakes... which is to never once in his life attempt either knitting or crochet. He has thus maintained a laudable 0% failure rate in all things yarny, unlike the rest of us fallible mortals. Continue Reading