Isabella Update

Having not posted for a week or so, I am now making two posts running! I just wanted to offer an update on Isabella. I am now about half way up the back, which given the very weird week I’ve had, is pretty good progress.
I am knitting the smallest size, which is new for me, [...]

Podcasts

In the last couple of days, I have discovered podcasts. They had somehow passed me by, perhaps because I didn’t have an iPod or other mp3 player. Which is no excuse really, as you can listen to them in iTunes or Windows Media Player, or whatever you have.
There are two types I have been looking [...]

The Joy of Socks

Yesterday, when I was taking photos of my biscuits, I took the opportunity to take a photo of my socks-in-progress. Here they are:

As you can see, the bottom socks are some straightforward stocking stitch socks. The yarn is something I got from Knitpicks  a year or so ago, courtesy of a very kind American friend. [...]

Adventures in Wheat-Free Baking

Today I took it into my head to bake. First of all, this meant shopping. I had no ingredients, and nor did I have a baking tray! So, thinking about the various things I needed, I thought I could buy them more quickly and easily if I went into town, than if I wondered from [...]

Somewhere in Time…

Last night I watched Somewhere in Time, which is one of those completely random things I selected while adding to my DVD rental list. It is always a little weird to discover that I am watching a film that is about the same age that I am, but it’s something I have been getting used [...]

Isabella

I succumbed and bought the yarn for the Isabella pattern. I really want to knit some things from the Rowan magazine, but I simply cannot afford to at the moment. So I decided I’d go for this, comparatively, more affordable pattern for now, and while I’m working on that, save up to get the yarn [...]

I’m Going on a Yarn Hunt…

I am desperately sourcing Rowan Calmer at non ridiculous prices. Or something of a similar enough composition to use in its place. I am a student, and therefore £6.99 for 50g of yarn is so ludicrous that I need a better word to explain how ludicrous it is. Admittedly, I have seen it being sold [...]

(Un)happiness

For one reason or another, I am spending quite a lot of time, lately, being unhappy. For one reason or another, I don’t have much time to do anything about it. Today, however, I took that time. I decided that there was absolutely no way that I was going to achieve anything this afternoon, I [...]

Knitting

I’ve nearly finished the back of my cardigan/jumper. Just a couple more inches to go, and then I can start the front…once I have decided how it will be. I desperately want to finish this jumper so I can start something new. I have far too many things on the go right now. This jumper, [...]

Spring Knitty!

Spring Knitty is up! I had heard it was coming, but I didn’t expect it so soon — the daffodils are barely pushing their brave way up from the ground!
There are a couple of patterns there that I definitely want to make. Isabella, if I can get over my horror of picot edging. It invariably [...]