Yarn Mistrys

During the time that I was over in the UK mid-June, we had some really, really lovely hot weather. So hot that all we did was spend any spare time we had in skirts and shorts, and wearing our flip-flops, or champals as we call them in Gujarati.

I love my champals. I have [...]

Hello my lovelies! I know it’s been a while, but I do have reasons, honestly.

Some of you may already know that my sister got married in June.. we’re waiting for the official wedding photos, but I do have one of the whole family at one of the many functions leading up to [...]

About a week ago Raina posted about her lovely new crochet bag and as soon as I saw it, I was completely enamoured. I desperately wanted one for myself.

One that I can put all my essential bits and pieces in and spend lovely summer days in the park, knitting, browsing, taking pictures and maybe [...]

Woohoo!! I’ve been waiting practically all week to make this post, but the Tunic was blocking and was taking an age and I really wanted to get the Jaywalkers off the needles, which happened last night…

Yarn: Rowan Calmer in 461 Beige x 5 skeins
Pattern: Sleeveless Tuxedo Shirt by Theresa Schabes from Interweave Knits Summer [...]

I love big cardis. I’m drawn to them like a moth to light…. drawn.

When I wander through shops, most knitwear will pass me by and even though I admire, I’ll normaly say to myself ‘I can make something like that myself’. Not that I ever do, of course, but I know [...]

When Ollie and I first moved to Germany we found a lovely Turkish shop in the centre of Osnabrueck. We visit the shop whenever we pop into town and it’s fabulous finding hidden treasures on each of our visits. One of the treasures that we actually purchased was a floor cushion.

Unfortunately, we’ve had [...]

Most of you know about Twist Collective and the wonderful patterns that they have in each issue. Some of these patterns have found themselves grasped in my grubby hands and I finally got around to knitting one of the much coveted patterns.

This is Audrey in Unst by Gudrun Johnston and I am completely in [...]

When the Knitty surprises went up for the Winter 09 issue, I was instantly smitten with a pair of socks.. I love knitting socks, but for a good few months now, I haven’t really worked on any. When I saw the Skew socks I was intrigued straight away by the completely different and [...]

Just before Christmas 2009, I was visited by the lovely Diane and we spent a few days lounging around, relaxing and flicking through some of my knitting books. One of my reasons for wanting to flick through the books was a need to find a beautiful project for the equally lovely Kate for her [...]

When I first saw this cardigan it was on brooklyntweed’s blog. I loved the changes he had made to the pullover pattern and loved the fact that it was a ladies jumper that could so easily be made to suit a man.. I showed it to Ollie and he was just as enthusiastic about [...]