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
Knits
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...
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...
29 Apr 2017
When garter stitch ruled the month
Garter stitch, on straight needles, means miles and miles of knitting one stitch. To break the monotony, different methods of knitting are tried--Continental, American, German, Portuguese and then som...
31 Mar 2017
I am not alone
This year, this week, today...I feel a spirit of kinship with many a knitter around the world. The changing season brings on the desire to knit something different and new. A new yarn material perhaps...