Knitting on the Green

Went to the wedding (my cousin and his wife who has become a very good friend over the 12 or so years they've been together), and it was...

The replacement wrap is finished; here it is with the top, skirt and handbag. The skirt is ankle-length (and so you get more greeny colour o...

So I spent a lot of this afternoon knitting the final chunk of the coat/shrug I started at SkipNorth to wear at a family wedding. Here it w...

Just a couple of random catchup pictures... First, a photo of some Opal handpaint, which was waiting for me the day after getting back from ...

A very belated SkipNorth post - given that it's a week since I got home! But here it is: So we set off on the Friday morning, Rosie an...

Realised that if I wanted to wear the Olympic shawl on Saturday night it needed to be blocked; so got up at an even more inhuman hour than u...

Amelia watches over the new stash.... details/[gloating] to follow...

My only chance ever for Olympian Gold having been the Next-to-Last-Kid-to-be-Picked all the way through school.... It's not blocked, but...

Textiles in Focus is over for another year. Not that it wasn't fun - it was - but I feel as if I've been run over repeatedly by a fl...

Survived the setup and first day of Textiles in Focus. These are not good photos, but give an idea of what the stand Rosie and I are sharing...

Didn't get anything knitted on the Olympic shawl on Sunday, but managed several rows at work at lunchtime on Monday - here she is at the...

Spent yesterday dyeing, once I'd gone to the post office and picked up my long-overdue parcel of dyes - it was a good afternoon for dryi...

The Knitting Olympics has started! We met at the Fort St George in England last night - Mary 's husband took photos - thanks! That'...

I made a button, and a couple of fellow Cambridge Olympians thought it was OK; so here it is. Please use as you'd like. If you want to l...

Today is an interesting one in the calendar. I've always known it as Candlemas ; it's also Imbolc and Groundhog Day . It's the ...

It's insane, but I've signed up for this, despite it starting a week before Textiles in Focus which swallows up the week around it, ...

... in which the joyous question of ISBN-10 to ISBN-13 "transitioning" took over my world. (And I do actually know that "tran...

Ahh... Steve the plumber got the heat back on, courtesy one astonishingly, ruinously, expensive new circuit board. Have spent the weekend wi...