Keeping the memories alive…
How time flies! I really did intend on making sure I had a new post out each week so I can’t believe that two weeks have gone by since my last post. Firstly the brilliant news for this post is that my work colleague took her triplets home from the hospital last Friday. Here are the little teensy matinee sets that I had knitted, I was chuffed to bits to discover that she had used …
Read more….personal hat knitting from last year, I have at last knitted the Meret Beret by Woolly Wormhead. This is a gorgeous hat that has been on my radar for about 2 years I think but for some reason it kept getting left behind in the queue. Teamed with some stash yarn that I had won in our knitting group’s raffle at some point last year, Adriafil Soffio Plus in a lovely pale olive green and …
Read moreIn 2011? Well, I finished all of these projects. That’s 18 projects in total comprising of: 1 jumper – I’m not sure I can call this finished actually because I’m still not happy with the shoulders so won’t wear it until I’ve unpicked and re-done them. Oh sod it, it’s finished technically so it goes in the list 1 bolero – This may yet be sent to the Charity shop, I don’t really like the …
Read moreAs you know I’m currently listening to Dracula courtesy of Craftlit, so when the opportunity to visit Whitby came up last weekend, I was only too happy to take it. I love Whitby anyway, it’s a pretty place with excellent fish and chips and some good pubs but the chance to walk the Dracula Trail and take the route that Mina and Lucy would have walked each day was just too tempting for a geek …
Read moreI currently have a fair few projects on the needles and am still wanting to cast on more! There are just so many things I want to knit and as usual, not enough time to fit everything in. I’m still working on the baby knits, I’ve now completed one jacket, two hats, the backs of two more jackets and a pair of mitts. As everything in the pattern is written for knitting flat and seaming, I have …
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