Friday, January 3 2014
Friday, January 3 2014. Knitting
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1025"] Pattern - SariDesigner - Kieran FoleyPhotograph - Courtesy Kieran Foley[/caption] Ever since I saw this pattern on Ravelry, (non Ravelry link) I have been wanting to dye the yarn for it. I wanted the challenge of dyeing […]
Saturday, November 16 2013
Saturday, November 16 2013. Knitting
If you've read my blog for a while you'll know my love/hate relationship with my knitting machine. But there is no denying that it can produce a pair of socks far more quickly than I can by hand knitting them, especially if they are to fit larger feet. This weekend I completed two pairs of socks - […]
Thursday, October 17 2013
Thursday, October 17 2013. Knitting
I've been working on a special gift for a new, not yet born, member of the family. She is due to arrive in November, and I am hoping to be close by when she arrives in Brisbane. My sister assures me that my niece does not read my blog, so she will hopefully stick to that rule and not see the gift […]
Sunday, July 14 2013
Sunday, July 14 2013. Knitting
Earlier on this week I was in the post office posting parcels off to Canada, the USA, Sweden, as well as more locally, when our postie, David, handed me some post. In amongst the bills and bank statements was a padded envelope. I wasn't expecting anything, and so as soon as I was back in Mungo I […]
Sunday, April 28 2013
Sunday, April 28 2013. Knitting
This morning I woke up to an email in my inbox which had attached to it two lovely photographs of a project completed by Claire Petersen.[caption id="attachment_6380" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Photograph Courtesy Claire Petersen[/caption]Claire came to Scotland […]
Sunday, April 21 2013
Sunday, April 21 2013. Knitting
Being self employed means that weekends, as a concept, don't really exist. That's the down side. The up side is that you get to take a day off when you want. However this weekend was very much a working weekend. Stevan and I headed off to Drumnadrochit yesterday, which sits on the banks of Loch […]
Monday, April 1 2013
Monday, April 1 2013. Knitting
Quite a few of you has asked me via the comments, on twitter and on Ravelry, about the knitting machine which I have.Well, to start off with, it is old! We think we got the machine in around 1984/85, so probably around 29 years old. It has travelled all over the place with us, from South Africa to […]
Sunday, March 31 2013
Sunday, March 31 2013. Knitting
While parts of the UK have been wet, miserable, and sometimes snowy, as usual we've been having glorious weather. We had planned to get some good walks in this weekend but unfortunately Lexie is poorly again, and so excietment in the form of walks has been kept to a minimum.However, the lack of […]
Tuesday, January 22 2013
Tuesday, January 22 2013. Knitting
Thank you for such a great response to the Ripples Crafts fundraising yarn for the first half of 2013. I have been kept very busy dyeing Heather's GOLD and I will be back at the dyepots tomorrow to do fresh batches. If you want this colour on the BFL/N base, then there is a very limited supply of […]
Saturday, January 19 2013
Saturday, January 19 2013. Knitting
We have escaped the snow that is blanketing the rest of the UK at the moment, but we haven't escaped the cold. There are bitter bitter winds blowing, and the ground is very crunchy underfoot. We have had an easy winter up to now with very few days being below freezing, and January and February […]
Tuesday, January 8 2013
Tuesday, January 8 2013. Knitting
Finally, I have something finished that I can show you. The first is my Ravi Junior, designed by Carol Feller, which I made for my show stand so that folk can see the sort of fabric that you get from using the sport weight yarn. I made the smallest size and it took 140g of the sport weight yarn. I […]
Sunday, January 6 2013
Sunday, January 6 2013. Knitting
I'm really not one to make new year resolutions. Instead I prefer to ponder on the year ahead (rather than on the year that has passed) and consider small changes I'd like to make. Nothing earth shattering, just small changes that are achievable rather than big resolutions that leave you feeling […]
Tuesday, January 1 2013
Tuesday, January 1 2013. Knitting
We were with friends until after the bells this morning, so the first day of the new year has been a quiet one. We never really get to sleep in late, as there is always something needing our attention first thing in the morning, especially the hens. So after making sure they were fine and the […]
Monday, December 31 2012
Monday, December 31 2012. Knitting
I cast off my final finished item for 2012 yesterday. Well, almost finished .... it still needs washing and blocking, but here is Ravi Junior in its raw, almost finished form.I really, really enjoyed knitting this little cardigan. It is a pattern by Carol Feller, and you can find it on Ravelry […]
Monday, December 17 2012
Monday, December 17 2012. Knitting
It is always difficult to say "this is my favourite spot" or "this is" - the most I'll say is that "this is ONE of my favourite spots". If we head up the hill behind our house, and keep going up and up and up, we arrive at what we know is "my loch":We haven't […]
Wednesday, October 24 2012
Wednesday, October 24 2012. Knitting
Yesterday it was glorious in Assynt again, so we went for a walk. I wore my newly finished Warriston, but in fact it was too warm to wear it for too long. I absolutely love this sweater. It is everything you want in a winter sweater - cosy, beautifully constructed and it has pockets! It is […]
Sunday, October 7 2012
Sunday, October 7 2012. Knitting
We had a lovely week with our friends, Neil and Gilly. Although walking was a little curtailed for Gilly, we took advantage of a wonderful facility in Assynt, the All Abilities Path, which was ideal for Gilly who wanted to do some walking but not on rough ground. The All Abilities network of paths […]
Wednesday, September 5 2012
Wednesday, September 5 2012. Knitting
Now that I have wrestled control of the blog back from Lexie I can tell you about a new item soon to appear in the shop. It is a Yarn Pal.Recently I asked members of the Ripples Crafts group on Ravelry if there was anything in particular that they were having difficulty sourcing. One person said […]
Tuesday, June 5 2012
Tuesday, June 5 2012. Knitting
I'm sorry it has been so quiet here of late, but life has been a little hectic and it doesn't really calm down much until the end of June.I've just returned from Gardening Scotland, which is always a fun show to do as there is so much variety in the stands and stalls set up both inside and out. I […]
Thursday, May 24 2012
Thursday, May 24 2012. Knitting
As my business has grown and got busier, the time I have to sit, relaxed, and knitting, has decreased. I by no means resent this, as I love what I do, but it does mean that getting samples together for show stands can be tricky. And this is where I am so fortunate. [caption […]
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