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Me? Run a knitting workshop?
October 21, 2011 By 4 Comments
I’ve been asked if I’d do a knitting workshop next month, as part of a month-long ‘pop-up shop’ project in Bedford. More on the shop later; for now I’m wondering if I could actually do a knitting workshop. Let me be clear: yes, I can knit. I’ve been knitting for over 30 years, and much [...]
On slippy steps and smiley sheep
June 15, 2011 By 2 Comments
I’ve started spinning Herdwick fleece. A lot of Herdwick fleece. In fact I suspect I’ll be spinning Herdwick for a very, very long time. A couple years ago my husband and I bought a late-Georgian cottage. Nothing fancy, just a small end terrace with a 1970s kitchen & bathroom extension. Save for the original elm [...]
My knitting time: kitty temptation supreme
April 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It’s the final day of this year’s Knitting & Crochet Blog Week, and the topic is when we knit. I’m not one of those people who knits (or spins) everywhere. When I travel I happily check my knitting stuff, preferring instead to read a book or listen to music during my (sadly for the ozone [...]
Something to aspire to: going Continental
April 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Right. First off, yes I missed Blog Week Day 5, which involved doing something ‘experimental’. And I confess I just couldn’t get into it. Added to that some unpleasant but not unexpected news on the work front and it just wasn’t going to be a day for blogging. But now it’s Day 6, which is [...]
Where are they now? That big black sweater…
March 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Today’s KCBW topic is the fate of those projects that disappeared. I must have had the week’s topics in the back of my mind because just the other day I was wondering what ever happened to my first Fair Isle project, which I made back in the late 1980s. The only evidence of the sweater’s [...]
Tidy mind, tidy stitches
March 30, 2011 By 2 Comments
Our Knitting & Crochet Blog Week 2011 topic for day 3 is our stash and how we organise it. Until last summer I had my stash displayed on bookshelves in my living/dining room (except all the novelty yarn ends, which have always been tucked away in a picnic hamper, out of sight). The wool was [...]
Skill + 1up: colourwork
March 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Today’s topic is skills; specifically how I compare to this time last year. To be honest, I don’t think I’ve really gained any new skills. What I have done, though, is try to tackle one I’ve never been able to master: colourwork. And frankly I think the results are mixed. A couple years ago I [...]
A tale of two yarns
March 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I don’t usually blog about my knitting. There are so many knitting bloggers out there who do it much better than I could. I prefer to stick to Nude Ewe ‘core’ topics: rare breeds, uses of wool, conservation grazing and suchlike. But we’re a wool company after all so it seemed only fitting to join [...]
Sheepy woolly goodness and World Book Day
March 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Just saw on facebook that World Book Day was March 3. And while I’ve missed the actual event, I’m now pondering my favourite sheep and wool-related books. I adore books; I love their smell and the feel of paper between my fingers. I love folding over the corner of a page to mark a particularly [...]
