The latest issue of Simply Knitting magazine has just hit the shops, and I have another column therein about how I do my textile history research. This time, I was finding out about the wartime knitting scheme run by London Transport. It was a fascinating area to look in to, and I always like writing […]
A little departure from the norm for me with a small audio recording. When I awoke from a seizure today I found that I had recorded this a little earlier (but didn’t remember doing so). Sometimes I leave myself a note about what happened in the couple of hours previously, but this time there was
Some pre-ictal ramblings on knitting and trains. Read More »
This shawl’s colour combination, the clever asymmetric pattern and the urge to finish just one more stripe have been just the right level of brain work for me while I get through this latest bout of epilepsy. For interested parties, the pattern is Veera Välimäki’s Stripe Study Shawl, which is simple and lovely in
That’s it, really. My New Year’s Goal. I have always loved reading; loved books. I have a vast, ever-expanding library of storybooks, fact-filled tomes and lots and lots of pattern books. There is poetry, prose, instruction and philosophy in my shelves, yet last year, for the first year ever I didn’t read very many of
That’s what we officially call the week between Christmas and New Year in our house. Growing up, it always seemed a time of playing with new toys, reading new books and visiting aged great aunts, but also a time of sometimes intense boredom while the adults held cheese and wine parties or dragged us around
That Funny Bit, Inbetween Read More »
