Favourite to make
This is going to be a short piece, cos this favourite to make, is way ahead of the entire spectrum of knitwear we produce.. Where making is concerned, nothing excites me as much as making a triangula...
06 Mar 2018
Posts by Needlestosaymore
04 Mar 2018
Day 3…how I started
It all started here...on this sunlit, warm alcove which doubles up as the command centre of home. It started with knitting samplers ( which were converted to cushion covers ), reading the Barbara Walk...
02 Mar 2018
Day 2..Where.
#Marchmeetthemaker challenge continues ...here are ten random facts about where I live. This maker lives in Ranikhet, a small town in the Himalayan foothills of Kumaon, Uttarakhand. The soft gentl...
11 Feb 2018
Knitting cables—A guide to that ultimate high
Cables and lace (and maybe colour work) knitting is what gives a knitter that special feeling of achievement and truckloads of satisfaction. Cables are a set of stitches, usually 2 or 3, which cross ...
05 Feb 2018
When a project feels like eternity
The slip stitch saga is in progress.. Hundreds of stitches are being knitted/slipped/purled (and some fine expletives are emerging softly with many a breath of this knitter). The sweater has a comple...
30 Jan 2018
Blanket from the heart
More than eighteen months ago, on a quiet summer day, I looked up from Marie Kondo’s book, and actually saw yarn peeping out of every drawer/cupboard /bookshelf/nook in the house. Oh yes! I was in de...
27 Jan 2018
Slip stitch…while time slips away
It’s a clear-blue-sky, warm-sun, joyous day here. Melting snow and a good rain deluge has softened the ground and settled the highway dust, just in time for this long weekend of big cars, adventurous ...
12 Dec 2017
Hijack
Something strange has happened in this apartment full of sunshine, warmth and good intentions. Every activity, every floor tile, every shoe...everything has been affected, and I am yet to get my brai...
05 Dec 2017
Plotting prototypes
It's the first grey day of this winter. For the last two days, clouds scudding across the sky have been shot down by sunlight but its overcast and still now. The clouds stop the temperatures from fal...
23 Nov 2017
And how does one know its November?
With festivals, lights, crackers, wind and rain ( not this year), October leaves the mountains with fanfare and pomp, leaving behind quiet sunny days and bright blue skies with the Himalayas lithograp...