Damask of Doom: A knitter’s curse?
Posted: January 26, 2012 Filed under: Craft Philosophy, Handmade items, Knitting | Tags: Damask, handknitting, iMake, Knitalong, Knitting, Knitting Buffoonery, Nurturing Fibres, podcast 11 Comments »
Image Details: ‘Lil’ devil hat’ by thomasina, via Flickr.
Do you ever get that feeling, when you start a project, that you are a bit doomed to failure? Like there is some celestial force which just does not want you to finish it. Bad joo joo if you will? That the craft karma fairy is punishing you for all those unfulfilled skeins in your stash, those hibernating projects, those Christmas mitts that aren’t getting done? No? Just me then…
Book Review: Kirstie Allsopp’s ‘Craft’
Posted: January 19, 2012 Filed under: Books, Reviews | Tags: book review, craft, Craft Book Review, Handmade Britain, Kirstie Allsopp 7 Comments »
Amongst the seriously awesome presents that I received from Mumsy for Christmas, including the welly socks for my Hunters, was a copy of Kirstie Allsop’s Craft. As you can imagine, this was extremely pleasing for me, as I had thought about buying a copy but thought ‘no, wait, maybe if I am a really good girl and finish all my wips, Father Christmas will bring one for me.’ Well, I was really good (apart from the wips, and I have just cast on for a knitalong, so I am not doing terribly well with the wip discipline) and it arrived on Christmas Day. Unlike the Mothership’s Christmas scarf…
Nothing like Ghost: A first go at painting pottery
Posted: January 16, 2012 Filed under: Handmade items, Pottery | Tags: cafe, handmade, Painting Pottery Cafe Brighton, Pottery, review 2 Comments »
Image Details: ‘all i could think about was ‘ghost’ and demi and patrick swayze and the clay scene…’ by feeb, via Flickr.
A couple of weeks ago, between Christmas and New Year, we went on a mission to test an overlocker, as I had been promised one for Christmas. Having driven into Hove and found the shop we wanted to go into was closed, we decided to take a turn into Brighton, to go into another sewing shop, which was also closed. I’m all for craft emporiums having a day or two off now and again, just not when I am in the market for an overlocker. Anyway, in order to lift my dampened spirits (it was pouring down with rain too), we decided to conduct a little impromptu crafting in the Painting Pottery Cafe in The Laines.
LYS Review: Black Sheep Wools Craft Barn
Posted: January 7, 2012 Filed under: Reviews, Shops | Tags: Black Sheep Craft Barn, Black Sheep Wools, LYS, LYS review, wool shop review, yarn shop review, Yarn Shop Warrington 4 Comments »
Standard Northern weather as we pitch up at the Barn.
On 4 January, I went with Sal from The Gingerbread Bunny to the Black Sheep Craft Barn in Culcheth to do a bit of yarn shopping. We had planned to go to Purl City Yarns in Manchester, however, as the weather has been particularly horrid here, we didn’t fancy dicing with death on the M60, so went the A road route to the Black Sheep instead. As I spend a fair amount of my yarny disposable income with this particular purveyor of fine fibrous goodness, it seemed appropriate that they be the subject of my first LYS review.
2011 in review
Posted: January 1, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
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A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 3,700 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 3 trips to carry that many people.
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