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At the market
There has been a market in my home city for nigh-on one thousand years and it has a permanent home nestled on one of the main pedestrianised streets, in the shadow of our City Hall. As well as being a part of the living city, in many ways it lies at the heart of commercial Continue reading
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Going to the ball

Yes, Cinderella, you shall go to the ball! And there, in the merest blink of an eye, it’s a finished object! I cannot believe that such a basic cardigan took me three and a half months to knit. It’s lamentable. Even worse, it’s the first garment I’ve actually completed to a wearable standard all year. Continue reading
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The Cinderella project

The pink cardi is so close to being finished but, like Cinderella, it needs its buttons! For once, I have nothing suitable in my button box, so the cardi won’t be truly complete until I’ve taken a trip to town and bought something suitable. I could have done that today, but I craved an at-home Continue reading
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Mad March hares along
I’m not a fan of knit-alongs, but if I was I would be one hundred percent keen on taking part in something called the MadMarchHares-Along. Just a random thought. If you run knit-alongs yourself, please feel free to use that next year. However, my title actually refers to the fact that the Slope Rib Sweater Continue reading
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Round and round and round we go
Joining the newly cast-on stitches to work in the round is one of my least favourite knitting techniques. As you will know if you’ve been around here for a while, I knit all of my garments in separate pieces which are then seamed together. Socks, however, are a different matter, they are knitted as a Continue reading
