( Mildly morbid )

( Here be pictures of handicrafts! Arrr )

This is a big teaser post as I'm finally finished the blanket and it is beautiful, beautiful, beuatiful but of course I seem to have left my camera in the parents house and can't take any photos of it!

Will post photos at some later date.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments ( Read more... )

( Of dubious interest to non-knitters )

I finished in all the ends of the baby blanket so hopefully I can get down to the more challenging stuff when I go to my Professional Finishing Techniques course this Saturday.

It feels like donkey's years since I took a course for a hobby (I know arguably theology is a hobby but I don't look at it like that). I feel like I'm a teenager again.

It would be for the sewing up of this blanket. I've now finished in the ends of three rows. This is an incredibly tedious business that I'm not sure I'm doing correctly or securely. It also takes forever. Each patch has around 4 bits of thread to work in so that takes me about ten minutes and isn't fun. I've now conquered the half-way point ( Read more... )

I'm making progress with the blanket and I'm really pleased with it so far. I laid it out on the floor to get an idea of the size and it looked great without the rows even being sewed together. My sewing is progressing well too. I don't feel like the whole thing is going to fall apart once the child gets his hands on it.


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Several years ago in this journal I posed the question of whether it was more socially unacceptable to be reading a book called "The Bad Catholics Guide to Good Living" or Eve Enslers "The Vagina Monologues" on public transport, namely the dart. Now another social question is brought to light: Is it is less socially acceptable to be sewing in ( Read more... )

Is anyone who reads me on ravelry without my knowledge ( Read more... )