I'm making up a knitting pattern...designing may be a strong word for it, as it's a boxy sweater for a baby. I'm knitting the 6-12 month size, does anyone out there want to test the 12-18 month size? Or the 3-6 month size? I don't really know how the sizing things work ( Read more... )

eeeeeee! I have an overwhelming desire to knit this even though I already have too many things on the go, and more planned that are time dependent. I think it's the fact that even though it would take exactly one billion balls of wool, they're each only 1.86, so it's not an EXPENSIVE knit at all, oh no. And I could do it in forest green, and it ( Read more... )

This is wonderful, not because of the interview, but because of the wonderful people in the pictures, particularly the smiley man at the end ( Read more... )

claire_wain, I certainly ain't.

I am making
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Oh look, this is the internets.
Hello, I have not vanished. Instead I have been on the train, to London and back. I went to the Alexandra Palace to drown in wool, and lo there was so much wool that I had an insulin reaction and went a bit wobbly, and my family had to stuff me with chocolates. I still managed to buy ten balls of this in shade 6 ( Read more... )

yum, tastiest lunch sandwich ever: cheese roll+ wholegrain mustard + cheddar cheese + tomato paste + spring onions.

I am in the process of preparing a costume for a "medieval" themed dinner at a conference I'm going to. As many of you know, my fibre sport is knitting, NOT sewing. Unlike nurse_liz and claire_wain the precision necessary for cutting out patterns ( Read more... )

I want to knit these things:

• Hemlock Ring Blanket as a shawl


• Coachella


• Muir


• Cherie Amour


• Totally Autumn

HOORAY! My new term of playing with mud and making pretty things starts tonight! I am extremely happy about this. I'm going to learn to use the wheel and not make things lumpy and misshapen... I'm going to make a tea pot (not on the wheel). I'm going to gossip. I'm going to claim some things I made last term. HOOORAY ( Read more... )

Repeat children, I HAVE willpower, and will not cave to the weakness of the dollar, the challenge of a beautiful but REALLY difficult knitting pattern, and the fact that it's packaged with the wool, I WILL RESIST, honest ( Read more... )

LOOK WHAT I MADE! (Claire, if this is how you feel every time you finish an item of clothing, I TOTALLY get the dressmaking bug! I hope you feel this excited.)

I wanted to knit something special to give to my brother's fiancee, so here it is. I did think that it was a bit mad of me to give it a go, but I tried anyway.

Pattern: Creatures of ( Read more... )