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This old thing?
I’ve been keeping this pen under wraps since I bought it back in November and I hadn’t really intended to write about it. However, the mood has gripped me and it ties into a wider discourse about the fountain pens I buy, so here we are. That’s pretty much exactly what I think about this… 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
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Time gone, or still to come
I am quietly slogging away with the transcription of old journal entries, trying to wrangle them into a slightly more cohesive collection. This is serving its secondary purpose of burning through some ink, but it’s also burning through paper and the sheets are becoming increasingly random as I unearth old books and pads to use… Continue reading
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