Yes, the Ravelympics are here again. After the fun of the 2008 Olympic knitalong, I just had to take part in this one. I’m not usually a winter sports fan (the last time I went ice skating was painful to both my ego and my body), but I love watching them on tv. This is [...]

Yesterday’s sunset…

Today’s FO, my Fluffy the Vampire Sweater.
Yarn: Sirdar Blur (fluffy mohair, impossible to frog)
Pattern: Birgitte Lace Pullover
Ravelry project link.

Tomorrow’s (and Sunday’s) Knitting WIP:
Pattern: Central Park Hoodie
Yarn: Sirdar Click (yeah, it’s acrylic, but it’s cushy and cheap, and machine washable!)
Ravelled.

It was a dull grey Saturday here today, so I took my camera for a walk, taking photos of things that make me happy. Despite the dim light, I found plenty to photograph - so many that this is a photo-heavy post, sorry if that makes it slow to load…
First of all there’s my [...]

OK, so I can now personally vouch for the reports that flu is not a good thing to have. I’m getting over it now, but a few days disappeared in a haze of paracetamol and too much TV (I got through a whole series of Gilmore Girls in two days, but please don’t ask [...]

During the week I cast on from the ball of yarn that I posted about last time, and after a very productive (and enjoyable) afternoon’s knitting at the Salisbury Knitter’s group, I now have the top of a cardigan for me.

The pattern is the ‘Favorite Cardigan’ from Wendy Bernard’s Custom Knits book. Like most [...]

I’m absurdly happy at having wound this ball of handspun yarn tonight… is that weird?

I’ve been teaching myself how to use a nostepinne, after Mum made a whole batch of them for the shop. I love the results of winding handspun yarn on one, this ball looks almost edible.
The yarn’s my Wildcraft Club Fibre [...]

Winter’s on the way, last night it was still tipping down with rain, so the horses wore their rugs for the first time this year. It was beautifully sunny this morning though, so the blankets came off again. Beats me how a horse can look so comfy in these things, they weigh a [...]

A long time ago, I blogged excitedly about a Swallowtail Shawl that I’d just cast on.
It was my first real lace project and I did encounter a few problems early on, mainly a dropped stitch that needed rescuing. But after that I ploughed on and was going well until I reached the border, at [...]

I promised I’d post some pictures of my recycled yarn cardigan didn’t I? It’s been a while, but this weekend I finally modelled it for some FO photos. So without further ado, here they are.

It’s made from a woollen yarn that I unravelled from an old (and far too big for me) woollen [...]

Now I know how Willow’s ear tag was broken, the culprit was caught on camera this afternoon…

In the meantime, his cousins were scraping the bottom of the barrel. Or at least they were trying, they’re not quite big enough to reach yet.

It’s hard to believe that it was only a month since Buffy’s lambs [...]