Knitting Again!

Yes, I’ve finally got my brain into a state where counting to six seems possible.
Autumn Gold Cravat
The unpattern is available here on the blog, but I’ll try and tidy it up later.
Also completed are another pair of Regia Socks for Me. I used the same modifications as for the first pair and I’m very [...]

Made it!

As Rudyard Kipling wrote in How the rhinoceros got his skin
“and he smiled one smile that ran all round his face two times”….
I’m exhausted, bruised, aching, and very very happy.
Pictures here.

Dear god, take cover!

My little desktop barometer has been dropping like the proverbial stone. It’s now sitting at around 962 (28.5″ in old money) and has dropped 10 points since late last night.
Strangely, the BBCs weather centre doesn’t seem to have noticed: “light showers, 10C, 23mph winds” doesn’t sound quite right to me.
RenovationToday is the last big [...]

Quiet day in the pub

Yup, that’s over half a sock knitted yesterday. I got as far as the heel turning last night, and started the decreases today. There’s nothing quite like cold feet to speed up your knitting! Cold fingers, sadly, seem to slow it down….

Nip nip nip

Definitely cold out today. I scampered off for a walk down to the other end of town and over the old bridge.
Look who I spotted!
All in all, a 45 min walk, including the pause to try and get a decent picture and about 1.5 miles on the ground.
And for warmthJ [...]

Yes, I am still knitting

In a similar manner to Jean I have been working on a simple scarf. Frankly, all the renovation and website-redesign is frazzling me to the extent that counting to 6 is becoming a challenge.

It’s in a lovely microfibre – Schachenmayr nomotta MicroColor – and a colour which reminds me of early autumn. I’ve [...]

A little distraction

I got this from Kate at A Strikke.
1. Flip to page 18, paragraph 4 in the book closest to you right now, what does it say?
“On safety, the transglutaminase issue suggests that we need a more searching regulatory process and a considerably more precautionary approach.”It’s from Bread Matters by Andrew Whitley who runs the Village [...]

The Giant Hamster Cage

is, thankfully, no more. We’ve had 15 strippers (wallpaper that is, rather than clothing) working in the hotel and have probably gained an inch on each wall as they took layers and layers and layers of paper off. It really did look like the inside of a giant rodent cage, and would have [...]

Political digression

I knew that Scottish Borders Council had a reputation for spending money on strange things. The news today that three quarters of primary schools don’t have smoke detectors just makes me sick.
The councillors can’t even guarantee that all the schools will get detectors, as they don’t have the budget!