ok so my woodwork skills suck - and I haven’t much in the way of tools, but I made this (don’t ask how, it’s really simple and really badly made, hopefully my dad will make me a better one when he gets back from Thailand)

and this is the yarn I dyed in the post below

I’m [...]

Here is how I made the board to measure out the yarn to make self-striping sock yarn. This isn’t a tutorial on dyeing the yarn, Eunny has an excellent tutorial on dyeing self-striping yarn and there are numerous tutorials on yarn dyeing. You can dye the yarn any way you like, I’ve been using food [...]

I’ve been having some issues with my email - I think it’s sorted now, but if you’ve sent anything to me in the last week or so and haven’t received a reply, can you send it to me again? Sorry for the hassle. The stupid spam’s getting through again so I guess everything else should [...]

I dyed some yarn in red and pink for project spectrum.

I dyed some more last night. I’ll get some pics when I get home and see if I can put together a little tutorial on the frame I made to measure the yarn out with the stripes (pictured in the post below). It’s really [...]

and just to keep track a truly crappy picture of Rosa’s progress, I’m about 10 rows before the sleeve hole shaping. A doll needle has become my new best friend - threading about 1000 beads onto the yarn was relatively painless and fast.

it might be completly obvious but I have a new [...]

the essay is done. It’s not the greatest essay on Paradise Lost ever (clearly I didn’t expect it to be). But I’m relatively happy with it.
That’s almost besides the point. This is the first time in my entire time as a student where having two things due in at once hasn’t completely screwed me and [...]

feeling kind of brain dead so I cast on for something simple yesterday. Something I don’t have to do maths for.

while clearing out my stash I found this, tied it to my lampshade and took pictures. I have absolutely no idea what to I was trying to make, but fuck frogging kidsilk haze - it’s [...]

The funeral was outside, in our garden at the house that was not quite my home anymore. When I?d arrived late last night there were already chairs scattered around the lawn. Strange, unexpected lumps in the dark. As if someone had been in the darkroom since you?d last been there and moved things around, [...]

i love short stories, I do. I think in the end that it’s for the same reason that I love reading blogs, glimpses into other peoples lives.
But it’s been a while, years really, since I’ve written much. Until I took a creative writing class this term. Going to university made me realise that I [...]