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Monthly Archives: January 2009
A musical interlude
So, you are standing in the supermarket, minding your own business and the phone goes off.
Not YOUR phone, but the phone of another lettuce-seeking individual trying to decide between lollo rosso and baby spinach leaves with rocket and watercress. You look up and find that all the other meercats shoppers in the vicinity have done [...]
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Special Orders
I am up to my eyes in receipts and accounts and online tax forms so this is just a quick post to say that I have added a new category to the shop for special orders.
From time to time I do custom dyeing and from now on, rather than using Paypal to invoice for these, [...]
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Reasons to be cheerful, part 2.
You may remember that I was in France in October. And you may also remember that despite having a wonderful time with lots of new experiences to put "in the bank", I did fall victim to a thief who dipped my day sack and made off with my wallet.My bank cards were cancelled within half [...]
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Reasons to be cheerful
Today, according to radio 4, is "gloomy Monday". The day in the year when we are most likely to be miserable.So to counteract this I will show you some of my current "reasons to be cheerful".
This is a terrible photo taken in the kitchen with no proper lighting, however…
This is my current radio station of [...]
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Primavera
The first sock is done, and I have already cast on for the second one.
The remains of the ball with one sock knitted.
NB This is NOT the Club colourway, but the Club yarn is in the same style.
Primavera is a seriously good pattern.
I did 20 rows rib instead of the suggested 15 because it [...]
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Singles.
Before Christmas I added some "sweater packs" of fibre to the shop, and also did a several custom dyed orders for sweater quantities of fibre. Many of you were enthused by the idea of hand dyed semi solids, and were pleased to see something a little more subtle available.
I have now broken up the remaining [...]
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Amaryllis II
There has been knitting (of which more later).There has been spinning.And there has been growing.
My cut-price amaryllis which has such an unpromising start is a source of daily delight.I think that if I stood still long enough I could actually watch the cells replicating in the growth tips.
Isn't it amazing?All that growing in just 12 [...]
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Secrets
I'm back in the land of the living, thank you for all the lovely emails and comments.I watched "Goodnight Mr Tom" with John Thaw. Cried Buckets.Had a good shuftie at all the hand knitting in it in preparation for my next Gavin-Garment which will be a waistcoat in undyed handspun from a fleece I just [...]
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Poorly
I am poorly.Sore froat.Sore head.Weary.I'm not going to fight it, I'm going to sit on the sofa under a quilt.Yesterday I watched Miss Marple.Today I will find something else to watch.I don't even want to knit.Gavin is bringing me plenty of cups of tea and has banished me from the dye room.I'll be back when [...]
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