When we acquired Ariel almost 11 years ago, she had the ungainly name of Asda (think British Wal-Mart) Bins because the rescue centre used to unimaginatively name them after the places that they were found. We not long been to see an amazing performance of The Tempest at Canterbury Castle so we decided to name [...]
I finished this at the weekend but hadn’t had a chance to take a photo of the finished pair so here it is. It is super soft and perfect for when it gets cold which is actually today. I have another set of clothes at work in case I ever get soaked. I set out [...]
I finished kitchenering the supersoft alpaca socks at the weekend and picked up the remaining yarn and imagined those three colours together in a sock. I started these whilst pao was cooking lunch on Sunday and I like the stripes I’m really on a sock roll and I’m thinking ahead to what I can do [...]
It’s been an interesting weekend so we were lucky we had a Bank Holiday today to recover. One of the servers at work decided to flash two of the disk about to fail lights on Friday afternoon so pao had to go into work for a few hours on Saturday and then briefly again on [...]
I had intended to blog yesterday but it was a crazy crazy day. I was woken up by pao who declared it was 6.55am and the alarm wasn’t working because the electricity had tripped some time in the night. Bearing in mind I had to get to a village 10 minutes away for 7.45 for [...]
I ended up winding two skeins of yarn last night so I could knit Grumperina’s Helical Stripe Socks. pao had surprised me last year with the wonderful yarn by Lorna’s Laces. It’s sports weight so should be a quick knit and I’m interested to see how the stripe stripes. Just to prove I am occasionally [...]
These Alpaca socks were so close to the finish – all that was needed was the kitchenering and a few weavings in but I left them at my office which I won’t be at again until Friday So I’ll just have to work out now what I’m going to start tonight for travelling up and [...]
I started these Monkeys a while ago out of some lovely Cascade Heritage Yarn which I received from Julie as part of the Knitters’ Coffee Swap 4. The pattern is particularly lovely and easy to remember. Taking of love, the girls have been hanging out a lot together lately and they were all happily sitting [...]
I’ve had a very lucky week. I also won a contest at Zoe’s Knitting Bag and this wonderful package was waiting for me when I arrived home on Friday. Inside was an East of India Brit Heart, a tube of cheery red beads and a pretty cat button. I’ve already started looking at my stash [...]
I’ve been working hard on our container garden. I’ve planted loads of seeds. These courgettes are going to be tiny round ones. There are ordinary and tiny alpine strawberries germinating in the propagator and salads behind those. I’ve been growing little peas – I’ve not been brave enough to plant them out as the slugs [...]