I'm short-sighted, basically. With a small side order of astigmatism, but not enough to make a great deal of practical difference. I first noticed when I was about ten or eleven, and spent a long time trying to convince my mother to take me to the optician; but
The demographic round here is a little odd. Not so long ago I was told that there were more under-1s here than over-55s; I don't know if that's still true, but we do have an awful lot of toddlers in this area, and our church reflects
This is d'Artagnan. If you're not a fan of baroque/early music, you almost certainly won't recognise him; if you are, you'll be doing a huge double take right now, and asking yourself "is that really...?" Yes. Yes, it is.
Here's the poncho from that Burda pattern of which I showed you the top yesterday, made in a black deadstock chiffon with what they call a foil overlay. In effect it's a metallic gold surface print; it's so fine it doesn't really
While I do have a preference for independent sewing patterns, for reasons I'll probably go into at some point, that doesn't mean I never use the major brands. This one is Burda 6589 (and, yes, I made the poncho thing as well, but I want to
You may already have noticed I like knitting cables. In fact, I don't knit anything other than cables (there is one person in the world for whom I would be prepared to knit Fair Isle... but only one). And I don't know how many times I&
Many years ago, when acrylic yarn was always pretty horrible but it was the only thing I could afford to knit with, I designed and knitted a V-necked slipover using the traditional Irish cable pattern "Homes of Donegal". Fast forward a few decades. I've put on
Before I started having mobility issues, I used to get to a lot of concerts. These days, I'm not able to do that easily, and I miss it; indeed, I miss it to the extent that I organised a couple of concerts this year in the (honestly rather
Today we're all about the Nina Lee Southbank Sweater, which is my current sewing obsession; it is just such a useful style that I'm making several of them. The one you see here is the first one, made in a rather snazzy deadstock scuba fabric, and
I have been wearing more drapey things lately - dupattas, pashminas, that kind of thing; and an ordinary coat won't go over those properly, so I needed a cape. I chose the Harry Cape from I AM Patterns. For a start it was the right length; I normally
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