That’s a slight exaggeration. However, there’s this cardigan. It’s called Saruman because it seemed to be born in some circle of evil that I had some trouble defining. It was a Christmas present for someone, for Christmas 2009, to be started after I finished my own version of said cardigan.
So the first one went okay. [...]
On the yarn front – such as I have not bothered to report on for a while, there has been some change.
1) I have finished, more or less, the body of the cardigan from hell. When I have finished blogging I will go and try and do some more of the sleeves.
2) I bought more [...]
My mother is about to start knitting a cardigan for my great niece, one that she saw in the Woman’s Weekly. They occasionally have interesting looking knitting and crochet patterns; I’ve a cardigan set aside upstairs. Anyway, she toured the yarn shops in Cork and drew a blank on the yarn she was looking for [...]
arggh.
I wish it were finished. Nothing against the cardigan itself but I got six rows in and discovered it was going to have to be ripped back. I had to rip it back a second time. So I have 5 rows done now and I don’t know how many more to go.
How is it I [...]
Of course if I were right, I would photograph it but I’m sorry. I’m busy. Kelly Slater up next and anyway I am waiting for pizza.
The ripple scarf is made of some Tivoli wool mix called Ocean something or other. I started knitting it in a funny kind of ripple/cable about 1 year ago. About [...]
I haven’t taken any photographs or blocked it yet or anything like that – uhem – but I finished working the cardigan yesterday.
It’s looking really nice. However, I appear to have an adequate amount of yarn left to do…another one. But the second one I need to do has to be in a different colour [...]
Since I got an iPhone, and started buying stuff from iTunes from it, I confuse the hell out of iTunes, synching to the iPod classic and stuff. As a result, whilst playing the Purchased Playlist because I bought a load of new stuff during the week, the iPod got far enough down the list to [...]
So I am in the middle of making a cardigan designed by Doris Chan. I sort of fantasise about being able to make a living from creating crochet designs but I have to be realistic. There’s probably less money in it than there is in sports photography and we know where I stand on that. [...]
on the plus side, the time I put into cleaning the gas fire this morning has resulted in a functioning gas fire. I am very happy about this as the living room is now less than subArctic.
On the plus side, i discovered I’ve got great, great neighbours. The copper pipe for the garden tap burst [...]