Gina Barrett, owner of Gina B Silkworks, has a great deal to answer for. I'm on her mailing list, the reason being that her website is where I get my netting needles (and occasionally other things like weaving stuff, but I don't know of anywhere else
Do you realise it's exactly a year since I started this blog? Quite a lot has happened during that time. I keep a record of everything I've posted, partly to make it easier to find posts if I want to link them (as I can'
No formal post today because I am still really tired, but here's a quick look at what I was doing over the weekend. I will, however, just say a little bit about the two blokes in the photo. Alexandre is very good at this hitting-people-with-sticks business; he got
I read most of Good Omens several years ago while staying at someone's house, but I didn't quite manage to finish it before I left. Since I was enjoying it, I made a mental note to get my own copy; but somehow, for various reasons, that
Last-minute edit: due to a family illness, it is possible that this blog may abruptly go on hiatus in the next few days. At the moment I am not quite sure what is happening, but if the blog does suddenly disappear it will be back later. Anyone who sews at
If you do any kind of serious sewing, at some point you're going to hear someone mention "Gertie's Patreon". Gertie is the person behind Charm Patterns, and you've already met one of those on this blog; it was the Cinch-It Dress, which
I have finished the first of the two unfeasibly large nets, and it is amusing to see just how much bigger it is than the original reel of twine whence it came. (I knew it was going to be bigger - there's a lot of air involved in
Our sewing and crafts server gets a fair few help requests. Some of them come from reasonably experienced people (often those who are already active on the server) who've just run into some issue they haven't met before. These people are fine. They know the drill.
I've already dealt with the technical problems of doing fine gauge netting; but what I didn't initially realise was that very large pieces have their own, quite different, set of problems. I think I've already said I am making nets for the stage production
I get ever so very mildly annoyed by knitting patterns that tell you how to cast on. About the level of annoyance you'd get if, oh, maybe a fruit fly landed on your book while you were reading... so it only just registers as annoyance. Nonetheless, I'
On Saturday I went to my first actual physical SCA meeting; it was the Flintmoot, which is the monthly meeting of our shire (our SCA shire is called Flintheath, which is a little puzzling since it contains very little flint and no heath as far as I'm aware;
I have a cable jumper pattern which was, apparently, inspired by Henry VIII (it certainly comes in all sizes up to Henry), and the interesting thing about it is that it has looped cables. The bottoms of the loops are created by making additional stitches, which are then decreased again