A Knitter for All Seasons

I mainly knit accessories. This is because: 1.       Although I love the process of knitting I don’t have the patience for bigger projects 2.       I’m nervous of spending lots of time and money on something that doesn’t fit 3.       I can wear accessories in the UK for pretty much all the year 4.       I can knit

Knitting Heroes: my Granny

For day 3 of the Knitting and Crochet Blog Week the topic was to write about a knitting or crochet hero. As soon as I saw this topic I had no doubts who I would write about: my Granny. She taught me to knit when I was little but I never made anything other than the

Fibre stash

My boyfriend borrowed my camera to take to work this morning so I was forced to be slightly more creative than I had planned. Experimenting with the Photo Booth app on my iPad I came up with these two pictures of my fibre stash that is patiently waiting to be spun… To see other creative

Green is the word…

If you’d have asked me what my favourite colour was before I got involved in spinning and, to a lesser extent, knitting I could have confidently told you it was purple. I wouldn’t have defined the shade and although I would have gone for the darker end of the spectrum out of choice I would

Photo project 366 – days 12 to 22

Rowan Number 51 has arrived! 12/366 I’m certainly more of an autumn/winter girl than a spring/summer one but there’s some great projects in this one. North Greenwich 13/366 I went to watch the International Trampoline Competition at the North Greenwich Arena today – had a brilliant time! I took loads of photos of the bouncing

Photo project 366 – days 7-11

Me and my Singer 7/366 I’ve had this sewing machine for a while but not really got to grips with it. Today I realised that I’d been threading it wrong and once I’d sorted that out everything was so much easier! A is for… 8/366 52 weeks. That equals 1 set of upper case and

Photo project 366 – day 6

Barry Flanagan@Tate Britain 6/366 We went to Tate Britain today and the photo I chose to use was one of Barry Flanagan’s bronze hares. I could have spent ages photographing this but I think this was just a quick snap.

Photo project 366 – day 5

A Windy Thursday 5/366 I thought this was an appropriate excerpt for a windy Thursday such as yesterday.

Photo project 366 – day 4

George’s Bath 4/366 My boyfriend bought George for me a few years ago. I love him but he’s got pretty grubby over the years. I was a bit worried about washing him (childhood memories about my polar bear being hung up by his ears on a washing line) but he really needed a bath. He

Photo project 366 – Day 3

New Bento Box 3/366 To encourage me to take more packed lunches to work this year and be more creative with them than just boring old sandwiches I bought myself this cute Bento Box. I used it for the first time today and I love it!