Pamela Boxall
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The little top that didn’t
This is the little top that didn’t get given to my sister. The top in question is the Atlantic Waves Slipover by Anne Eunson from the excellent Shetland Wool Adventure Journal Volume 2 and the posts where I refer to knitting it, and the things I wasn’t so sure about as I went along, can… Continue reading
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Lightening the load
There is no getting around it – I’m not as young as I used to be and my poor old shoulders can’t cope with all the gear I want to lug around with me. Much of my spare time recently has been spent pondering ways to lighten the load whilst not entirely giving up the… Continue reading
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A quick win
Knitting hasn’t been exactly flying off the needles hereabouts, although I sauntered to the end of the first sock of my current pair this morning. As I wound off the yarn to get to a starting-place which would somewhat resemble the first sock, I realised it was probably the perfect amount of scrap yarn to… Continue reading
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Sunday morning yarns
I’m just coming to the end of a week off work and you’d have thought (well, I thought) that I would have quite a bit to show in the way of knitting progress, yet things haven’t quite turned out that way. The little progress I have made has been on my sock where I am… Continue reading
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Knit and wrap: January 2022
I think it would be interesting to see how January fared on the knitting front. It certainly saw an upturn in both productivity and interest in my knitting, and you can see above that something has actually made its way off my needles and jumped Cleopatra-style into a nice bath. I haven’t been knitting much… Continue reading
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Pens in case: January 2022
It struck me earlier this month how very long it is since I’ve worked somewhere with a proper walk-in stationery cupboard. That sit-com stalwart is gone and has taken with it the unique aroma of pencils and paper and glue, typewriter ribbons and stamp pad ink, all overlaid with the metallic accents of bulldog clips… Continue reading
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