Knitting on the Green

Another of the amazing things about last Tuesday was being handed three large plastic bags containing these ... the original blocks from th...

Very knitty day today, after a somewhat shaky start. This was Not The Day to attempt to go to London from Waterbeach. The train terminated u...

It's been a scorcher of a weekend, and humid, undermining my Great Plans to have a tidy house and some design work by the end of the wee...

Enough said, really; I love this sock...

Suzanne (mum to Lorna of the rainbow cardigan among many other things) came over for dinner last night and it was lovely. Then went over to ...

And a partridge in a pear tree. Actually; a dead blackbird on the patio, which lacks poetry. But otherwise it's been a lucky couple of d...

And it's actually feeling like that... Yesterday was alternately vile and steamingly summery. Today was almost entirely sunny and warm; ...

In London yesterday, for a Show of Hands gig at The Spitz with Kate, my newest relative (by marriage ; I wasn't taking a newborn out f...

In another bit of my life, I teach an embroidery class. Last week, crafts collided - we were doing canvaswork, and a couple of the ladies in...

My Yarn Corner in the dining room had reached ridiculous proportions by the weekend so I culled it (obviously, this doesn't actually mea...

First Jaywalker sock, in the lovely Trekking XXL which was a present from Anne . Love the yarn, and the pattern . (The lilac bits are actual...

Have been away for a few days - in Venice, in fact, with my parents, brother and SIL. These pics probably say it all: It was lovely. We sta...

It's been a weird fortnight. Mainly for work-related reasons which I won't go into... Last weekend I was around in central Cambridge...

Well; sort of. But yesterday I managed to get a couple of loads of washing dry on the line in the back garden, which always counts as Seriou...

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...