Wordless Wednesday: Lovely Christmas Gifts
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Yuletide Felicitions!
(As Margot Leadbetter would say.) I wonder whether you’re all ready for Christmas? It’s 7.30 on Christmas eve here in Britain, and I have not long completed my last task of card making. It’s been a superbly busy week, but I’ve cracked on, and have gift baking and knitting finished and wrapped ready for tomorrow’s
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Baktus
Squirrelly Neckerchief – Aqua by Moon Angel on Flickr. Used under Creative Commons Licence. I asked on Twitter a while back for the modern-day word for ‘neckerchief’. People came up with various answers including cravat and fidget. It turned out that the closest to what I was thinking was a ‘baktus’. Baktus is a character
The Gift of Knitting History
A week or two ago I had an email from a great online friend, Michele, asking me whether I would be interested in giving two of her husband’s aunt’s 1940s and ’50s knitting books a good home. Would I ever?! In the post they came, and look what wonderful treasures they are too. One is
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