Wall of Yarn – Singing colours I have to believe that Leonard Cohen is the hottest 76 year-old on the planet. He is just about to end a two and a half year tour and judging by the reviews he is/was amazing!!! There is a group on Ravelry dedicated to knitting and to the poetry […]
Lucy Neatby’s Paradoxical Mittens I always love it when a knitter takes a design and makes it his/her own, I posted a while ago about a friend of mine who knit Lucy Neatby’s Paradoxical Mittens and added a bit of the red trim to the thumb of the right-hand mitten so that you could always tell
Argyle socks from Cabin Fever Well, Auld Reekie (Edinburgh) is hame (home) to my brother and sister-in-law anyway. I think it must be the season – getting close to Christmas and all – but I have been thinking a lot about a time before children when my husband and I would go back to Scotland
Alveare from Woolly Wormhead I am putting the patterns of a new designer, Woolly Wormhead, on the Infiknit site. These are gorgeous hats, beautifully constructed, and wonderfully knit. As a result, I have spent some time on her site and was amazed by her blog. On Dec 6, 2010, Ruth and her family moved into a converted double
Lobster Mitten I read the other day that, because of the recession, there is now a surfeit of lobster on the east coast and the department of fisheries is thinking of running an ad campaign to promote the sale of lobsters. I wonder if it will be a little like the milk campaign – “Got
Roses picked from the garden Nov 28 These really are the last roses of summer. It’s either global warming or true love – take your pick! This picture was taken in Toronto Nov 28, 2010 and nothing in the garden looks as though it’s going to last another week, so I guess that this is
Xmas Stockings from Ann Norling I often think that Dec 6, the feast of St. Nicholas, is a bit like the “warm-up” band before the appearance of the big name concert band. You know the band that gets everyone in the mood so that the stars don’t have to. Santa (St.) Claus (cholas) is actually St.
Very Easy Scarves from Infiknit This was an Oh Wow moment for me again. For some reason, I had never thought that you could flavour pasta. How did I miss this, given all the pasta that I have eaten over the years – surely the flavouring was in the sauce. Well, now that someone has
Julia Bryant Some Like it Hot – front I am hoping to post some interesting sweater designs that are the quintessential statement of the artist’s work – hopefully worn by the artist – this could take a while. However, I have made a start because Julia Bryant, who does some amazing designs in Tunisian Crochet,
Fern Scarf from Queen Anne’s Lace I read with great sadness the other day that Britain has decided to sell two-thirds of its forests to private developers – read expensive houses on golf courses instead of walks in the woods where fairy tales were made! There are these boundaries, that act as measures of the
