Plotting prototypes
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...
05 Dec 2017
Tag Archives: knitting
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...
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...
15 May 2017
Movie star…well, almost!!
A few weeks ago, this email drops into my inbox. Someone wanted to know more about the work I do, someone wanted to make a movie clip, and so on and so forth. Don't get me wrong--Its not that I am fl...
16 Mar 2017
Random Thursday
Winter still reigns supreme here. Holi has been celebrated, but the trees remain stark and bare, sleeping dogs curl up into tight jalebis, heaters and electric blankets continue to be used and blessed...
30 Nov 2016
Socks in the cupboard
Knitting while staring at the idiot box, knitting while staring at the pros and cons of demonetisation in the newspapers and the laptop, knitting while staring at the pattern of the cardigan worn by t...
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...
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 ...
26 Nov 2014
The great knitting debate..
In this country, where knitting and other handicrafts are in the oblivion phase of their life-cycle, the community of knitters has dropped to minuscule numbers. Knitters reading blogs and surfing the ...
10 Nov 2014
Finishitupitis
A blessed affliction. a welcome ailment..a week-long virus which kept me up and about! With blushing dawns peeping through the window, and the glorious winter sun streaming into my room, the desir...