handknitting | Needles to say more

05 Jul 2020

In Love with Circular Knitting Needles…

There is circular knitting, and then, there are circular needles. While circular knitting can be done by 4 straight needles, ( DPNs), circular needles are great for straight knitting too. If you hav...

14 Jun 2020

Journeys

Projects and more projects..

June 14, 2020
By Needlestosaymore
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Lockdown months opened doors to many new knitting-unrelated projects, and what an enjoyable experience it has been!! Apart from the daily-15-doggy-rotis project, and the daily cooking-and-cleaning pro...

09 Jun 2019

Knits

Finding a name

June 9, 2019
By Needlestosaymore
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Five years ago, when the knitters were learning lace knitting by reading charts, we test knitted, re knitted and finally, perfected this lace shawl. Christened “Lace Shadows”, we have knitted it in ev...

01 Mar 2019

Miscellaneous

MarchMeetTheMaker..Day 1.

March 1, 2019
By Needlestosaymore
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A new month, an old challenge, a new attempt at daily sharing, old fears about slacking and falling on the way....Lets just get started, shall we?! Joanne Hawker started this Instagram challenge to m...

06 Mar 2018

Knits, Miscellaneous

Favourite to make

March 6, 2018
By Needlestosaymore
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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...

04 Mar 2018

Miscellaneous

Day 3…how I started

March 4, 2018
By Needlestosaymore
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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

Miscellaneous

Day 2..Where.

March 2, 2018
By Needlestosaymore
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#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...

05 Dec 2017

Knits

Plotting prototypes

December 5, 2017
By Needlestosaymore
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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...

16 Oct 2017

Knits

Double Magic

October 16, 2017
By Needlestosaymore
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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...

22 Sep 2017

Knits

Colourful footprints on the sands of time.

September 22, 2017
By Needlestosaymore
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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...

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