Knitting on the Green

I kept thinking of Reg Ingley, the original small shopkeeper in On the Town with the League of Gentlemen, while finally setting up my Etsy ...

Not my phrase - one of Jan 's... Look - crochet!! The pattern's one of Jan's too, from her Encyclopedia of Crochet - the lace s...

It's National Moth Night . All week, there have been the usual radio news reports about moths as these pesky beasts which just gnaw on y...

So, I taught a course last week, and in the main it went very well... If I'd had the energy over the weekend to unpack my bags, I'd ...

It's been a strangely busy week or two. I thought I'd be a lot less busy at the end of July this year - the Cambridge Folk Festival ...

There's quite a lot of knitting going on here, but most of it of the 'move along, nothing to see' variety. Apart from Mystery S...

This year's first Unbloggable Project has found its home - the baby it's intended for isn't due for a month or so, but Kevin and...

So I was walking to the station on the way back from buying the steamer, with it perched precariously on my bike basket, when I bumped into ...

I went down to London on Thursday and needed train knitting for the way back. My visit included an X-ray of my briefcase; the security guy w...

Good news...

It's been yet another weird day of bright sunshine and torrential rain: at about 7pm, one bright streak of light appeared on the green.....

Quite productive, though... I did my library shift, proofread Chart B for the Mystery Stole project, went to Ely to do my shopping (and spen...

I thought I'd be doing the stuff in the middle today now that MS3 has released its first clue; the stuff on the outside, not so much, bu...

Finally did my swatch for Mystery Stole 3; this is KnitPicks Shadow in Vineyard, a heathery dark purple, swatched on 3.5mm (US4) BrySpun nee...

I've stuck faithfully to the Knitting from my Stash idea all year, apart from my two Official Occasions for Sin at Textiles in Focus and...

I started a new thing - little baby sweater for a colleague's baby, Bethany. To both parents' surprise, this one's a girl; so I ...

I've been busy. Work has been as insane as it usually is in the middle of June; and I taught all last weekend, and then had my brother a...