Just to let you know that I’ve updated a couple of little errors in the Snow White and Gretel patterns. If you’ve bought either of these patterns and would like a copy of the updated file let me know but the corrections are:
In Snow White the abbreviations list had m1r and m1l mixed up. The [...]

Stripy features a compound raglan adapted from the directions in Maggie Righetti’s Sweater Design In Plain English. The simple method of working a raglan - where you increase every second round until you have enough stitches to fit around the chest - can give a good fit, but in most cases does not result in [...]

No Knead Bread made with half wholemeal spelt flour and half plain white flour is so very, very good and much more successful than trying it with ordinary wholewheat flour. I think this really will become my every day bread recipe. Of course I don’t eat enough bread to make it every single day, but [...]

mostly for my own reference but I thought these might be useful to some of you too.

For any yarns that can be felted together I spit splice to join the ends, but recently I’ve been knitting with a lot of non-feltable yarns. I’m really liking the back join detailed on Tech Knitting (one of my [...]

Wardrobe staple that it is I’d been putting off knitting a black cardigan for a while mainly because I didn’t want to knit something in the dreaded un-bloggable yarn colour much less try and sell a pattern for an impossible to photograph item. But I was going on holiday, to rest not work and so [...]

I finally feel like I’ve got the energy to really tackle sorting out my flat. Cleaning and tidying and sorting and de-cluttering of course, but also some more fun making a house a home sorts of things. If you’ve been reading for a while you might remember when I painted these frames, back in May.

Since [...]

and feeling much better and far more creative than I was a week ago.
Thank you for all of the comments and emails and purchase notifications that filled my inbox. I think that I’ve replied to all of the questions, but if not let me know. Something could easily have been buried.

I have lots of [...]

I’m going away for a week, to a little cottage in the middle of nowhere that has no internet. Since I’m feeling so run-down and overwhelmed by the many things I’ve been trying (and failing) to get done this seems like it will be a welcome break. I’ll be staying with my mum and aunt, [...]

I’ve just emailed a pattern update to everyone who purchased Gretel. If you didn’t get the email, bulk emails with attachments look rather suspicious to most filters, and want the updated file let me know. Alternatively the update is that there was a round missing in the pattern immediately before the last 2 rounds. The [...]

Or yet another beret pattern!
The pattern can be found in the new knitty and from the looks of things it has some wonderful company. I’ve just returned from my first rock climbing in about 6 years and I still have the nasty cold, but I’m looking forward to looking through it in the morning when [...]