Good times…for learners!
This summer had seen the beginning of The Ranikhet Knitters Group..a motley group of knitters, who would meet every month, share and show their knitting projects, talk about knitting, lunch together (...
18 Nov 2017
Posts by Needlestosaymore
13 Nov 2017
Quick Knit with Quirky yarn
Avid knitters in India have to get their thrills about yarn by either trawling through websites like this and waiting for someone to bring it to them, or pay some huge shipping bills and track the par...
23 Oct 2017
Self striping yarn
Gradients of colour can either form pools of colour, irregular colour stripes, or even a proper pattern, as in sock yarns. Stocking stitch knitting becomes exciting when one is waiting to see what ...
22 Oct 2017
Which craft clicks?
Craft...defined as an activity involving a special skill at making things with your hands ( and mind, and heart, and vision, and dreams). The 60s and 70s, when TVs were just entering homes, phones w...
19 Oct 2017
Evening walk routine
Over the past 6 years, the sanctity of the regular evening walk is rarely broken. The dogs show off their uncanny sense of timing ( changing with the seasons), I stop everything else to put on my walk...
16 Oct 2017
Double Magic
The knitters were reaching that point when they could wake up in the middle of the night, and complete a triangular shawl with their eyes shut tight. Knitting the same things again and again and agai...
01 Oct 2017
Knitting travails for travel
26th September-- and I am going on vacation .. This time, there is no Pepper to haul into the front seat, cuddle and pat that enquiring, perky face while driving the 3 odd kms to Hema’s house. Bisk...
22 Sep 2017
Colourful footprints on the sands of time.
Once in a while, there is an opportunity to actually design and create a one-of-its-kind knitted wonder. Something which fires up my imagination and the skill of the knitter.Something which is in syn...
19 Sep 2017
Embellish with embroidery
I have a gorgeous girl in my friend list. She walks tall, tosses her brilliant smiles at the world and keeps this four generation, mainly male household functioning like clockwork. We met when she ha...
12 Sep 2017
Zen woman..Pepper Srikanth
Once upon a time, a tiny puppy arrived at our doorstep in a bright red basket. She stepped out of the basket, looked around keenly, decided that we look promising, and then took over our lives. Thou...