Hey makers, How are you all doing in your individual lockdown / social distancing circumstances? To be honest, on my end I’ve been struggling, and been feeling perpetually tired. I’m trying not to be hard on myself about it, since things as they are are objectively terrible and depressing everywhere, and if you are struggling …
Hey all, I thought I’d show you my blue colourwork allover cardigan. This was my primary knitting project for the winter, a long lost time where it seemed perfectly normal to want night sky echoing colourwork cardigans. A time when going out for groceries wasn’t a whole expedition, when going out for a bike ride …
Greetings from a storm battered Treehouse! Like much of Northern Europe we’ve been visited by rushing gales and battering winds. I took a few things from my balcony as a precaution but other than comforting spooked cats from the whistling sound of the winds and worrying for my partner who had to cycle home during …
They say once you pick up a skill, you never unlearn it, no matter how long you are out of practise. Well, I was definitely not keen to find out whether that was true or not, yet a couple of months into 2019 and I found out I had knitted very few stitches indeed. I’m …
Hey Makers, I hope this last month of the year is treating you well. I’m enjoying these frosty days and witnessing the change of autumn to winter. Autumn held on long this year, and while most trees have now lost their leaves they held on exceptionally long (it even made the news here!). While most …
It is about time I show you this cardigan I knit at the start of this year. I cast on in late 2018 and finished her early next spring. I knit most of it in the middle of that year’s emergency cat surgery drama, said cat’s long recovery, and moving house. Not the best circumstances …
It’s been a while since a lopapeysa featured on the blog, hasn’t it? I actually made this particular Icelandic sweater last year, before I moved. You’ll have seen some glimpses of it on instagram, mainly of my cats’ brave attempts to steal it for naps -their love for lopi is still unchallenged by any other …
Thought it was about time I’d share the finished Love Note sweater. You’ll have seen me posting progress shots of the sweater earlier in the summer. The pattern is by Tin Can Knits and came out earlier this year, in May. When the pattern was published and making the rounds on social media I found …
We’re half way through summer and we’ve just had the warmest week on record in my neck of the woods. We smashed through multiple records, including the all time record on multiple days and if I read one more sensation piece about it that doesn’t mention global warming and climate crisis I’m going to be …
It’s the first few days of 2019, I posted my year in sewing a couple of days ago, so what better time to talk about and round off the knitting I did in 2018? My knitting output -as in the actual volume of projects I made- was on the low side and it has been …