A couple of months ago a thread started over at the stash and burn groupies boards on Ravelry. The thread was originally about “going cold sheep for a year” meaning, a full year of yarn dieting.
This coincided with me realising that my yarn chest (an old seaman’s chest) was unable to close due to [...]
Currently I’m knitting what I like to call a “shawl” as it in the interweave pictures is pictured as a skirt, but called a shawl. We’ll see what I end up using it for in the end.
The project is a marriage between a yarn I’ve been drooling over for some time at a LYS (Tjorven [...]
I’m still knitting up my pre-vegan stash (pregan? stash). This time it’s leftovers from the worlds ugliest afghan.
A friend wanted a slouchy hat and offered to buy the yarn to make it. But after a little stashdive that she did (I just dragged all of it out into the kitchen and asked her to enjoy [...]
Socks made from my basic sock recipe, but this time in vegan sock yarn, hand dyed from Sockpixie colorway: Manner of Yves St Laurent
2.5mm bamboo needles
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Usually I don’t name my socks. But this is the exception. Sergei Rachmaninoff was a composer of classical music. And the one that wrote the piece I spent some time knitting to indoors on a fine saturday afternoon, KIP’ing away. It’s not a great story, but I liked the name (russian and french names always [...]