Many gurus…One garment
After Cheetah and Mili had sniffed and (almost) scratched this pullover to their liking, I took the blocked, folded and clean sweater to its rightful place in the sweaters drawer. This drawer has 9 ha...
29 Jan 2019
Tag Archives: handknits
15 Sep 2018
Getting the act together
While the summer months tried to incinerate us, while the monsoons tried to dissolve all good intentions, while this year zoomed past in a series of trips and tours, the knitters wrapped their brains ...
29 May 2018
While I was knitting
These socks… Cast the first sock with this soft variegated yarn from Norway. I love friends who remember my fascination with self striping yarn, and indulge me regularly. The socks were to be my 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 ...
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...
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...