I’ve been busy

I’ve been a lazy blogger recently (but at least it gave me more knitting time) and I’m sure I have a few finished projects that I haven’t shared.
I’m noticing that although I continue to largely be a process knitter and have chronic Startitis that I actually seem to be finishing projects and I don’t seem [...]

Spinning Fun

It’s been a while since I posted and I have been busy spinning this month for the Tour De Fleece group on Ravelry. I’ve also taken the Superspin 2 class offered by Diane through Socktopus and have learned loads and the talk at the Guild this month by Jan Blight on A Diagonal look at [...]

Across The Sea

It is so nice to have the week off – I’m sitting here enjoying the Canadian sunshine and having a great time seeing all the family. I’m not sure the tan is advancing much but the knitting is – I’ve started and almost finished a Forst Canopy Shawl for my Mom and have picked up [...]

I Aten’t Dead….

Hmmm I seem to have disappeared for a few months there…. What have I been up to?
Well January was quite a while ago and other than a lovely spinning day up in London after the New Year and finishing Laminaria I honestly can’t remember what I got up to.

February was a blur of frantic [...]

Welcome back

Welcome back to work for everyone who was able to take a long break. I was working over it for the first time in quite a while so it was a bit of a shock to the system but at least it meant I didn’t have hundreds of emails that needed to be urgently answered [...]

Retreat Time!!!!

I think I’ve managed to pack everything I need for the retreat this weekend. I’m off to the wilds of Norfolk for the Socktopus Knitting retreat with Lucy Neatby – should be a great weekend. I’ve decided to be ensible though and am leaving my spindles here as well as the Hap Shawl. I’m on [...]

Lest We Forget

In Memory of my great great grandfather Private James Nicholson from Dumfrieshire of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers (2nd Battalion) who died on 30/04/1915 at the age of 33. As he died in Flanders and given the dates I believe he died in the Second Battle of Ypres (22 April – 25 May 1915) which [...]

San Francisco – October 2008

Here’s some of the fun things we got up to in San Francisco
- Visiting Alcatraz then watching Escape from Alcatraz
- Taking the cable cars after walking the first day – the hills are very steep
- Visiting the Cable car museum and watching the cables in action
- Shopping
- Going to Fisherman’s wharf most days
- Watching the [...]

Hawaii – October 2008

Well, the hopes of putting together an interesting post about the trip in some sort of a timely fashion have not come to pass so enjoy the photos and here is some of the fun stuff we did on the Big Island in Hawaii:
- Getting to see the family again and playing with my nephew
- [...]

Look what I’m making…

Well I have caved in to peer pressure and have picked up the drop spindle again. I had tried it a bit a few years ago when I joined the Guild on one of the Spinning skills days but never really got very far with it.
I had a chance a few weeks ago to do [...]