I have finished the lightsabre handles. I am now two rows into the ‘may the force be with you’ bit. So far it’s not as bad as I thought it was going to be. This is a Good Thing. It requires a lot of attention - this is not one that [...]

Plastic knitting needles are VILE. You don’t like them. You like metal. The £1.75 you spent on crappy needles could have been put to better use…like, halfway to a decent set of needles. Next time, no amount of impatience to start a project is going to tempt you to buy something [...]

Silk for a clapotis
I can’t wait to start knitting with this. It’s so soft and beautiful and I think it’s going to make a great clapotis. I have ordered some more in a Red-Pink-Salmon multi for one for my mother.

Basketweave scarf
This has been put on hold until Christmas is over. It’s in a microfibre yarn and is luxuriously soft. Looking back, I think I would have preferred it to be skinny rectangles rather than squares.

Hogwarts Sock Pair 1, # 1.
This is coming along slowly because I’ve been busy with the Ravenclaw scarf. But it will come…

Lorna’s Laces
This is going to make a fantastic pair of socks. It’s self-striping…I’ve ordered the appropriate sized needles, but I don’t think I’ll start until I finish the Christmas projects.

Ravenclaw Scarf
Here is the Ravenclaw Scarf as it is so far. You will see the handy little device that has saved my sanity with this project - a dangling stitch counter. I thought I was going to go crazy keeping a piece of paper around to mark each of the 22 rows [...]

The Ravenclaw scarf is officially On The Needles. It’s the first time I’m using ciruclar needles and it’s going well, the bastard first row nonwithstanding. I bought some black and white yarn for the Star Wars scarf but I can’t start that yet! I spent most of yesterday knitting mini hats for [...]

My knitting has languished a bit in the past two weeks. It’s been a very busy time, however I hope to get myself back on track. I went to the local Stitch ‘n Bitch meeting on Sunday and made lots of progress on Gryffindor sock #1. I am actually going to be [...]