There are very many ways to knit socks, and everyone has their own preferred method. I'm going to talk about mine; it may not be yours. Sadly I do not still own the pair of socks in the feature photo, and the only one I have of them
Along with the new lucet, I also ordered what they called a "friendship bracelet wheel". They both came from a company called Wooden Gifts Boutique, who have a website address etched on the wheel, but in fact it redirects to their eBay shop, so I imagine the website
I have liked poetry since I was very small; and when I was a child, I came across a curious, rather macabre, but nonetheless amusing rhyme called The Yarn of the Nancy Bell. I also liked Gilbert & Sullivan from an early age, but somehow didn't register at
So I was talking to Ancient Mother on the phone at the weekend, as I do, and I got onto the subject of portable crafts... probably because the netting I've been doing of late is not especially portable (although the jury is still out on that one; if
So, the original yellow string bag clearly wasn't ideal. It's not a complete write-off; it'll take maybe a dozen tins or so. Even so, the mouth is too narrow, and the only reason it's even that wide is that I tweaked the
I think I've mentioned before that we tend to struggle for bags at the food bank. (Although, having said that, the bag situation is a little better than it was, because at the moment we're getting a lot of refugee families. Most of them don'
You recall Mr Wooster's code wheel from an earlier post? While I was very happy with the principle of the thing, it really wasn't as elegant as I'd have liked. It was, after all, only cardboard, fettled up with a bit of lightweight air-drying
Adelaide takes an age to warp up. Well, she would, I suppose; little Gisele won't take more than 15 warp ends, but Adelaide will take a great deal more warp than that, and you can't really call it ends, either. Adelaide's warp is continuous.
Before I start, I have a little announcement to make. I'm starting to find it difficult to keep this blog going on a daily basis, and I'm also aware that something is going to have to give when I re-start my degree course in the autumn.
I've mentioned that beading dish a number of times now. Well, I do quite a lot of beading; and while I do have a little lap tray (and a very nice one at that), it has a fairly detailed design on it, so it's not really
I could actually have said I was waxing wood wroth, which would have been a really splendid pun; but, alas, the reference is a tad obscure, and I would rather not confuse anyone. It's Malory's Morte d'Arthur, in which "wood" is frequently
At the moment I have a lot of projects that aren't quite where I need them to be in order to post about them. The bead dish in the kitchen is still not quite dry (though we're getting there, and hopefully it will not only be