Tag: knitting
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Needled
eBay strikes again. This time in the form of a bag of vintage knitting needles. I’d spotted some tortoiseshell pins in the bidding pictures and took a chance. The good? Some lovely examples of 50’s needles and a fab row counter. The bad? The tortoiseshell needles were shattered and lay in pieces! Agghh! I salvaged […]
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Fishstock
Prize for the best named food and music festival goes to yesterday’s Fishstock in sunny Brixham. Well, by the evening it was lashing down but hey at least there wasn’t any mud! Wonderful fish, lovely wine, banging toons and a bit of alfresco knitting. Can’t get better than that.
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Every cloud…
It’s blazing sun here and I’m inside contemplating autumn. Little One’s cold has claimed him with a vengeance and he’s sleeping next door and I am lone attendant. The rest of the family are out on the boat. So I sit and knit. This is a new school scarf for Elder. Made from Big Softie […]
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Is there an echo in here?
To the Cotswold Water Park with three girlfriends, escaping mothers all, for a night in a lovely hotel, good food and a little too much wine. What a shot in the arm. I actually read (Caitlin moran’s recent tome) , swam, knitted and chatted. Marvellous. You really do not realise the sheer lack of me […]
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Glacial speed
Yesssssssssss! One year in the making. This is a Debbie Bliss pattern made using v posh Rialto Aran. There’s a link to the details on my make page. It’s probably way too small for sleeping beauty here – I still love it though. Jacket’s not bad either.
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