Spoilt for choice
September is the neither-here-nor-there-month of the mountains. Its not the monsoons, since a week of blue skies and sunny forests has slipped by. Its not winter, but I need a woollen cap, socks and ...
15 Sep 2016
Knits
12 Sep 2016
Progress on that KAL
Started a month ago... kept aside for puppy love, puppy madness and puppy grief..picked up again for routine, watching evening TV, planning the online store...getting zapped at the progress, at the fa...
20 Aug 2016
Knit Along Project ( KAL)
Saturday morning...a very quiet morning...Luchi adds her special sparks of mad bites and yelps, but the house sinks back to calm slumber, even while I gather my thoughts for today. After a week of gir...
06 Aug 2016
The last button, the first sneeze
Gigantic, loud, window-pane rattling sneezing is a paternal gene component of me. When Baba sneezed, we ran for cover--when I sneeze, the dogs jolt up from deep slumber, the walls shake and shiver, an...
02 Aug 2016
The Knitting Genes are Alive and Well
I look up from the laptop screen and she smiles down at me, from this picture hanging above my table. A formal pose, with my brother and me perched on a table, covered with a green, maroon and white w...
17 Jun 2016
3 stripes? 4 stripes?
It would be no stripes, no sweater, no knitting, no nothing, if Lady Luchi had her way! The house looks like a battlefield deserted by an army of fleeing knitters. Yarn balls have become heaps of tan...
30 May 2016
When knitting swings…
From one incomplete project to another...from one interesting technique to another great colour combination...from one request to another desire. How do we get to the finish line for even ONE of these...
07 May 2016
The joy of completion
It started two years ago. Yes, around the same time as this blog! I wanted to try hexagons with all the left over yarn balls stashed away in two drawers. This perfect pattern from Attic 24, combined ...
25 Apr 2016
Knitting a weave
The best aspect of knitting, strictly from my point of view, is that I can knit while reading, watching TV or videos, sitting in the passenger seat while our new family driver takes on hill roads at h...
15 Apr 2016
Bulky wool project
A wearable piece of simple knitting…at last! After a couple of huge knitting disasters this winter, I sorely needed a project which would reassure me about my knitting skills. The disasters happened ...