Ahoy there dearest readers! It has been some time since we last met. I have been drifting upon the seas encountering Christmas, School Holidays and Back to School. I didn’t mean to be away so long but the CFS part of me was not quite up to anything beyond the basics. I found I had […]
Tag: wraps & shawls
I received this beautiful yarn for my birthday. It is a laceweight single dyed a most beautiful indigo blue called Tuareg. It is 100% baby Merino from Malabrigo from sheep raised in northern Uruguay. They are a family owned company based in the same region as the co-operative Manos del Uruguay. Their dyeing and processing […]
I have been a bit of a list person, a should do kind of woman. So I rather surprised myself with this spontaneous treat of a project…a shawl just for me, knit for the sheer pleasure of it, a perfect holiday knitting experience. I cast on as soon as we unpacked and knitted into every stitch all […]
Ah! The linen Clapotis is finished and what a delightful journey it has been. It has been my summer companion at the children’s swimming lessons, camping, long drives, school and kinder pickups. I finished it a couple of weeks ago but I had to wait for the smoke haze from all the bushfires to clear. […]
Our family just got back from a camping trip. We had to drive for quite a ways. We listened to more than a few audio books. I knitted and there came a moment when a story and the knitting seem to merge. Once upon a time there was a poor fisherman named Tom Taffet who […]
Shawls and wraps are beautiful. They are a testament to the skill and effort of the knitter. Shawls are the heirloom gift we give to babies or brides or very special people. Yet so often on blogs and our Ravelry project pages, they are immortalised in poor light, on blocking boards with pins every which […]
Flame was so exciting, I immediately cast on for a smaller shawl/kerchief with what was left over. The pattern I used was 198 yds. of Heaven by Christy Verity. This is one of those extremely popular patterns with 5021 projects on Ravelry and it had been in my library for some time. As a pattern, […]
Once upon a time, I briefly shared a phone number or at least a very similar number with a hard working woman called Flame. I would get calls in the wee hours from urgent sounding gentlemen wanting to speak to Flame. Needless to say, I changed my number fairly quickly. Every now and again, I […]
Have you been wondering where the knitting is? Well, I have! One of the drawbacks of monogamous knitting is there is an uncomfortable gap between projects sometimes. In this case, there were also some achy hands involved. But if you say it very softly, then it is not really happening! And hopefully it will go […]
Do you remember the two Bertha Shoulder Wraps by Vibe Sondergaard that I knitted up a while back? Well, I just found out that one of my pics (with the back of Our Dear Girl’s head) is currently the featured pic for the pattern on Ravelry. You can look it up here. And it is […]
