A knitter's gotta eat, yeah? You need fuel in order to retain your grip on sanity when you get to that part of the pattern. You know, the part that the designer wrote when they were having a really bad day because they'd just accidentally boil-washed their cashmere, so they decided to give free rein to their inner sadist because if they were suffering, then you should sure-as-eggs be suffering too. So instead of the easy, restful garter stitch they'd been suggesting for the body of this Continue Reading
A Ludicrously Easy Bread Recipe (Before I Get Back To The Knitting)
OK, this post isn't strictly knitting, but... This bread recipe is so easy that it ought to be illegal, because such an extreme level of gorgeousness will make folk assume that you slaved over it for hours, and it's surely wrong to be the source of such deception. When I say that it takes two minutes* to put together, I'm not joking, and I say that as the person who looks at most recipes and thinks, "Yeah right is that gonna take a mere half hour to make: two hours, more like." So in case Continue Reading
Chocolate cake recipe… and colour inspiration
OK, I've had a couple of requests for the chocolate cake recipe from my last post. I'll type it up in a minute. First, a moment of inspiration..... I love colour. It's fascinating. I particularly love colour in the natural world, because as I've repeated ad nauseum, Mother Nature is surely the very best designer. But sometimes, the juxtaposition of ordinary objects can be inspiring. The other day, I was emptying the dishwasher. (I know, I know: could my life possibly be any more Continue Reading