Pattern Alchemy

I think a wonderful thing about blogs and one of the best things about Ravelry is the ability they have to make you reconsider patterns. A pattern which, initially, made no impression on you — or in fact, a bad impression — can suddenly be made to seem infinitely desirable. By seeing how a design [...]

Presenting…

…my completed Hypoteneuse!

I am really pleased! It is slightly shorter than I would have liked, but I expected it to be, as I had less yarn than the pattern recommended. I am also really impressed by how well the blocking worked, as you can see, the improvement in pattern defiinition is amazing! I was very [...]

Hypoteneuse Update

This morning I began on my fourth skein out of five. Unfortunately, I am back to unknitting. I am having a repeated problem with this pattern. It is absolutely nothing to do with the pattern itself, but with how much I am paying attention. The pattern is deceptively straightforward, which means that I lull myself [...]

Spindle Spindle Spindle

Today my postman brought me my new spindle! I am very excited about this, as the brief play I have had with it confirms my suspicions that the problem I was having with the original spindle was that I was trying to force it to spin thinner yarn than the weight of the spindle justified. [...]

Knitting and Spindling

Overall, not much to report. I have managed to do very little knitting in the last week or so, and even had to miss a knitting group, thanks to a work meeting. However, I have some pictures. Here is my progress so far on Hypoteneuse. I am now into the fifth pattern repeat, and still [...]

Beginning Spinning

So on Saturday, my drop spindle arrived. I’ve been quite busy since then, but I have been having a good go. It started off very bad, as is logical enough. But it is going much better now. I’m thinking that perhaps I wasn’t breaking up my roving enough before beginning to actually spin, and I’m [...]

For Your Saturday Viewing Pleasure

I don’t have a great deal to update you with at the moment. I am expecting my drop spindle to arrive later this morning, which is exciting! And presumably will put paid to any idea I might have had of actually studying today…but we shall see!
What I do have, is some pretty pictures of the [...]