Finished project – two-elephants for twins

We’ve just got back from Canada (which was properly awesome, and more on that later). One highlight was the chance to visit my friend Carrie, who moved to Vancouver with her other half a couple of years ago and, significantly, gave birth to baby girl twins almost three months ago. I was chatting to another…

Finished project – Inglis Mitts

So. It’s been one hell of a week. While I’m not using this blog for political musings (not right now, at least) I will say that the act of knitting and the mindfulness it helps to bring about, the way that it gets me out of my head and focusing instead on something beautiful and…

A bit of blue (what are the chances?)

Bit of a blog hiatus at present thanks to gastric flu (no really, THANKS GASTRIC FLU), which has been about as much fun as you’d imagine. Ugh. I’m on the mend but haven’t been up to achieving much yet. However I have been (intermittently) working on something new and relatively quick – here’s a preview….

Comfort shawl – June 2009

Would you believe I still haven’t blogged about more than half the projects I finished in 2009? Tsk, must do better! Here’s one more for you, a simple little comfort project from early last summer. It’s a slightly enlarged version of Orlane’s textured shawl recipe. It’s still only a wee little shawl but it’s very…

Spin me a yarn…

I’m now the proud owner of two skeins of Handmaiden Lace Silk, in ivory. Hear that? That was my little whisper of contentment. It is just. Stunning. But, I learned a valuable lesson with this yarn. One which is probably already known to everyone else in the UK, but on the offchance that anyone else…

Noah — December 2007 – January 2008

What’s better than one baby elephant? This is Noah (slightly arbitrarily named, but I didn’t want to have two Elijahs). Neither photo shows the colour properly but he’s kind of mint-green, and could probably have been so all over but I was wary of running out of yarn so used some scraps left over from…

Elijah — December 2007

So the bag’s not my fourth finished item of 2007 (it is meandering along, about halfway there I reckon), but I have something else to show you instead. Last year my Christmas project (Christmas being the only time of year, really, where I have several days for uninterrupted knitting — I do love coming home…

Alphabet baby blanket — February-May 2006

It’s finished! I can unveil the mystery at last, the Super Secret Project is this alphabet baby blanket for my very best friend’s baby (due imminently, eek!). I should really have secretly blogged everything I went through while I was knitting it so that I could whip out a ready-made post now, but of course…