Entries from November 2008

November 29, 2008

Waiting For Godot Part II

I was concerned that all my Godot jokes would backfire and that the spinning wheel would never come, but after all, it did! Here it is!

This is a rather old Ashford Traveller. The previous owner who, I believe was the original owner, was using it for the last twenty years or so. However, it is [...]

November 28, 2008

Waiting for Godot

Blogging has fallen by the wayside a little, lately. There are a couple of reasons for this. First, I am mainly working on Christmas knitting, and there really is only so much I can say about a pair of socks I have knitted before. Frankly they’re driving me a little nuts. It’s a great pattern, [...]

November 19, 2008

Christmas Knitting

Yesterday I began it. I was waiting for the yarn to arrive and I have now officially begun Christmas knitting. Probably in pretty good time. I’m not doing very much of it, and none of the projects are particularly big or complicated. I’m only knitting a couple of people little things because I think they [...]

November 13, 2008

Finishing

Lately, I have been finishing things. Earlier in the week I finished my Odessa hat. It is definitely a hat now, entire and complete; and no one, but no one, will ruin that for me! The stitch count was absolutely fine, which I thought it would be, but there’s nothing like ignoring a pattern to make a person [...]

November 6, 2008

Smell My Hat!

Sometimes I say things without any intention of being funny, but manage to be anyway. This evening my flatmate offered me a biscuit, and I said “Yes, please, but first, smell my hat!”, at which point we both fell about laughing. Maybe you had to be there…
As you might have guessed, I am knitting a [...]