March has been a slow month, but at least the daffodils have been busy. I have ambled through the days, enjoying my triumvirate of inked pens which I've rotated, day by day, for my journal writing. Each has its own character, and two of them tie as my favourite. The little Kaweco is such a…
What a difference a week makes! Suddenly my current knitting project looks like a cardigan and is showing up in a fairly accurate colour. Next up, I have to tackle the band which will run all the way up the fronts and round the neck. I have many ideas on how I could approach this.…
I wanted to do a proper knitting update with lots of spiffing photos, but this picture of a seam is all I've managed. The yarns in this cardigan are not easy to capture via photography, and the project is at a point where it has all the gawky ungainliness of an hour-old foal. This state…
It's been a while. I'd like to say I've been ridiculously busy, but really I have mainly been eating cakes. Cakes at home, cakes out, all the cakes, all the time. Despite my permanently sticky fingers, there has been progress on other fronts. I enjoyed using my V&A perpetual planner the first week, but I…
I’ve had a good week with my knitting and just this morning I completed the back of the raglan cardigan. I kept on feeling the love for the Rowan Baby Merino Silk yarn but then fell completely overboard when I moved on to the Malabrigo Silky Wool for the yoke. Oh, my goodness, that yarn…
I’m happy to say I’ve had a positive start to 2023 on the knitting front. I cast on a pair of socks with one of my Christmas yarns just before New Year and finished them this week. This was the perfect little palate-cleanser project after the long haul of my pink cardigan and the completion…
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