well I seem to be almost getting into the habit of daily posting. Even if I am using pictures of old fos as filler. I hope my posts on knitting methods didn’t come across as didactic or remotely snippy. There is no right way to knit, but it is always possible to improve how you [...]

the knitalong blog is coming along, but it’s not ready yet.
I have, however created a bunch of flickr groups. The ones for each pattern are intended to be used to post finished object pics in. The knitalong group can be used for in progress shots, intended yarn, etc. The super amazing thing is that these [...]

I’ve found all of the comments on my last post fascinating. I’ve decided that there is no obvious reason to switch to continental for the sake of speed - the general consensus seems to be that it is only faster if you are having problems with holding the yarn in the right hand. That reassurance [...]

not the sexual euphemism it sounds like but the style of knitting. Perhaps I’ve never mentioned it, but I knit English. I can, however, knit continental. Mostly it doesn’t feel right, but I can do it pretty competently and would presumably get better. The only time knitting continental feels right is if I’m knitting stranded [...]

Ok, so apparently the knitalong idea is a good one. Which is ace because I think it’s going to be fun. I’ve set it up as a seperate wordpress blog, but you’re not getting to see yet - it’s pretty ugly. This has motivated me to actually make a new theme - for the knitalong [...]

I just went to see how my plants were doing and look what I found on the windowsill:

I was worried that I’d jinxed this whole living plants thing by posting those photos yesterday. Yes these are the same two flowers. So I called my mother and she assured me that it was normal, that the [...]

I had a very productive morning today. Although given that I generally spend the most part of mornings asleep that may not be saying much. But today I got up at 8.30 and met my mum for coffee in the National Gallery, which since they linked the two galleries together and put in the new [...]

Somehow getting back into the swing of this whole blogging thing is proving tricky. I haven’t posted for a little while not because I haven’t been around, but because I think I’ve been over thinking the whole thing. I’ve been spending my days cleaning and reading and knitting and house hunting and through it all [...]

For starters this is the almost finished not knitty project:

The first lace pattern I’ve really designed, I sketched a rough idea on graph paper and then worked it out properly while knitting. I did that while on the plane to Venice, and my mum thought it looked like I was writing in some kind of [...]

and no I don’t have anything in it, I was swamped by essays around the deadline. Of course I also missed the deadline for the fall issue, because I was er swamped by having fun. It’s just not such a good excuse. I haven’t finished the thing I was going to submit to knitty yet, [...]