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 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
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(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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