Knitting on the Green

It was a Fibrefusion day today (sometime soon this should be an actual link...) and also the last session before Christmas, which means Seri...

After several weeks of knitting on this, and an almost equal period of denial, I finally came to the realisation that whatever I do to this ...

I like Harrogate. This year, I was travelling up alone but then did the last little bit of the journey with Sue after we bumped into each o...

Went over to EJ 's last Tuesday night. We started off in very civilised mode; nice dinner, wine, conversation, admiring of Baby M who ge...

of a weekend last weekend. My parents visited... On the Saturday, we went to Burwash Manor Barns, which are very pretty and each bought sev...

Grandma Christie was born a hundred years ago. This is a picture taken in 1980 (I think) ; she'd just finished playing cricket on the b...

The KnitPicks order arrived, forwarded by an Internet friend Judy in the US, and indeed it was fabulous and even with customs and transatl...

The postcard telling me to come and pay the customs on my Knitpicks order (forwarded by a friend in New York State) arrived this morning, o...

I was going to have a bit of a rant about the general crappiness of this week and particularly today, but things conspired against me tonigh...

I was clearing my backpack out earlier and found a ball of yarn Jan gave me on Tuesday; a ball of Lorna's Laces sock yarn in soft blues...

... and it's very welcome indeed. First, a Finished (and Bloggable) Object! Most of my knitting over the next couple of months will come...

The Angel Pearls scarf is coming along - when I have time to sit down with a chart and an audio-book, it's knitting along at a little mo...

... I thought they couldn't get any more photogenic, I came back in earlier and found this: This is Amelia Peabody Jarrahkatt, gradually...

Photo one: cats at 8:15 am Photo two: cats at 12:15 pm They did move, briefly but at some speed, when biscuits were poured into their bowls ...

... Show Secretaries bearing gifts. I have no idea what I'm going to do with this for the next year. Having entered stuff for the villa...

... why this colour is called Vintage. Duh. Thankfully I'd removed the wine before this happened... Norwegians [the Forest Cats, not act...

... seems to have been this weekend's theme. Or at least, transformation... Before any of the crafty stuff, John Humphreys did a magical...

... when this happens? Sivia Harding Hanging Garden Shawl, nearly two repeats in; mysteriously partly removed from the needles... Discovered...

This blog was a year old yesterday! So, in anticipation, I bought it some presents at AP... (Hey, a genuine annual excuse...) Unlike the sta...

Well; I had this post, which wasn't just about Ally Pally ; and I saved it, and uploaded photos, and then Blogger ate it; presumably my ...