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presents = late night crafting

or
the fact that I didn’t bother getting up til 3.30pm = late night crafting,
you pick.
anyways…
kate with one arm looking rather dour, or hug-me-sad?

and because she’s a little special and about half the size - I think she’s more of a Katie.
Despite the fact that I just called her special, she will be getting more [...]

snowflakes

weee isn’t this the best thing ever?
its 7am - in one hour tesco opens so I guess I’ll wait to go to bed after buying food :).
I just got my flatmate knitting - hes taking a train all down the country in a couple of hours, so I’m helping him stay up.
I should stay [...]

apocalypse tree hoodie

and every jumper needs thumb holes :)

and have i sewn the ends in?
no
and is the zip squint?
yup
and have I been wearing it constantly for several days?
of course.
Details:
knit from the top down in one piece with NO seams with rowan polar on 8mm needles.
and the name?
when I lived in Aberdeen (I went to uni there for [...]

werewolf

or how the full moon makes me a little nuts. It always has, and sometimes it’s worse than others - I’ve been practically nocturnal the last few days. At about 2.30am last night I decided to walk my friend Jamie home - turned into a rambling detourous (yeah tis a word) wander round most of [...]

meh

dyeing the zip didn’t work - I think it must have been dylon cold water dye, which needs dye fix and I think doesn’t even work on nylon. Oh well, I’m off to buy a zip.
p.s. if you wondered where my blog had gone to my host was moving the database server - back now [...]

story of a hoodie

I bought some rowan polar on sale last winter. I new it was going to be a jumper of some kind. I tried giant cables in the summer, and a cabled tree in the autumn:

but nothing was right
last week I finally gave up on making a jumper with a cabled tree (at least in this [...]

secret pal goodies

I got this exciting package last week - but I’m disorganised and only just got it all back together so I could take pics.

yes that is lorna’s laces sock yarn, it’s soo much prettier in real life. So pretty in fact that when I got the package I started knitting with it (while halfway through [...]