From the knitting nook
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Make it easy on yourself
During the past week I’ve made a couple of changes to how I was working the Slope Rib Sweater, with an eye to making the process more enjoyable. You can see both of them in the above photo – wooden needles and a bit of scrap wool. I like to live at the cutting edge… Continue reading
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Under-inspiring
I’m going to apologise in advance because I think this might be a slightly underwhelming blog post. That said, I don’t expect you generally visit with high hopes for earth-shattering marvels… there are limits to just how exciting knitting and ink are ever going to be, after all. I have succeeded in completing the second… Continue reading
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Every day’s a school day
I was pretending again on Friday, but there’s a lot to be learned through playing make-believe. On the most practical level, I pretended to be at the coffee shop, lapping up the ambient noise, with my laptop and my cereal bar and my Espresso House coffee flask providing those Scandinavian coffee chain vibes. It wasn’t… Continue reading
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Let’s pretend
Let’s pretend it’s Wednesday, even though we’re well into Thursday as I’m writing this. I don’t know what happened to Wednesday; I know I got up, I know I went to bed, I know I knitted a little and read a fair bit, but I didn’t do anything I had ear-marked to get done. Most… Continue reading
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Come back, Kojak, all is forgiven
I have a finished object! See – here I am wearing it. Isn’t it super? I love it! There’s a couple of things I’d do differently if I made it again: most importantly, I would probably use a size smaller needles to give the fabric a slightly denser texture, but all in all I’m really… Continue reading
