Yarn Mistrys

I finally got to meet my new little cousin, while we were at home for Christmas. And now you get to meet her too:

Her name is Meera and she is an absolute darling. As you can see in the picture, she’s wearing the woolly hat that I made her!!

Here she is [...]

Sis and I went up to Manchester to spend Christmas with the family. It was still pretty foggy on Saturday morning when we set out and I was hoping that there really wouldn’t be lots of traffic on the roads.. That was my first mistake. There was loads of traffic. Every major motorway/dual [...]

by Bronte

Here are the rules:

THE RULES:
Each player of this game starts with the ‘6 weird things about you.’ People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list [...]

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For every comment that I get to this post, I will donate a £1. The cut-off date will be January 31st 2007…..

Thanks all!!

K.xx

P.S. Happy knitting!!

This Christmas knitting is turning into a bit of a surreal experience. It’s like when you’re having a weird dream; you’re very late getting to [somewhere] (insert as appropriate) and find that your car won’t start, leaving you with getting on the bus. You make your way to the bus-stop and just as [...]

I have just finished another Christmas Present and I am happy. You might be able to tell from the tone of my post, but believe me, when I finished said item last night at 10.30, I was very closing to dancing.

Thankfully it was raining outside and I wasn’t dressed for the weather so there [...]

I’ve taken to reading a number of blogs since I started my own. Some are fab and I’ve got them listed in my sidebar, but ther are some out there that are just a bit odd. We’ll not talk about those, I’m too scared!!

Over the last few months I have found [...]

M’s Hedera are all finished!

Yay!

I have to say, I finished them a couple of nights ago, but I’ve been too lazy to take and post up the piccies. Like really lazy!

M’s already seen the first one that I made. It was knot up on 2.5mm DPN’s and the second one I decided to [...]

Not sure I mentioned it, but I’ve just changed my method of knitting in the round.

I started on DPN’s and have stuck to them for around 4 pairs of socks.. not many I know, but I think it was enough to show me that I can knit in the round.

Recently, I’ve read a lot on [...]

I finally finished the baby blanket that goes with the booties that I crocheted earlier

Here it is arranged over our extra seating place!

And here is a closeup of the pattern:

And another to kinda show you the actual size of the blanket:

Yarn: Soft Baby Acrylic
Pattern: Bernat Softee Baby Blanket and Booties
Needles: Size 4mm Crochet Hook

I would [...]