Archive for the ‘knitting’ Category
Tweet Meet Synnove. She is one of the many woodland elves that now make their homes amongst ours. During the long, cold winter months, Synnove devotes herself to keeping her household’s fireplace bright, merry and warm. In return, all that she hopes for is a wee saffron bun and a warm cinnamon milk, left by [...]
Tweet Thank you again, dear folk, for your lovely support and friendship. I am feeling so much better today. There has been quite a build up of “goodbye sadness” over the last few weeks and now, that much of it is over, there is almost a sense of relief. We do have lovely memories, good [...]
Tweet My wee sweet girlie is twelve. Twelve! Wherever did the last twelve years vanish to? The day of Abby’s birth is crystal clear in my mind – the wonderful surprise of whether she would be an Abby or a Joshua; the utter, utter exhaustion when we arrived at our room, me hoping she would [...]
Tweet Summer may be a page away on the calendar but boy, it has surely already arrived in Queensland! It has been hot! hot! hot! It was so hot one night last week, Abby and I gave up on the house and the idea of preparing dinner and headed up the road to a nice [...]
Tweet Oh this has been such a long time coming. A dreadfully long time. An “I’m embarrassed how long this has taken me” time. This beautiful Serendipity Tweed by Brown Sheep – in water lily – has been on my needles for months. It has seen several different guises. But none of them were quite [...]
Tweet Cosy, pretty rag rugs … I’m weaving a toothbrush rug for the spare bedroom so that when you come to stay, your toesies will be warm! Or at least, I was. ‘Til Toph ate the rug making tool in the above photo. Hmph. I have bought a very fine paintbrush from the hardware store [...]
Tweet I would like to think it’s a mystery but really, we all know why. Brisbane’s traditional evening spring storms have all but disappeared. When the rare one thunders overhead, it is fierce and destructive, not the dramatic but beautiful end to increasingly warm days that I grew up with. Poor old Australia – it’s [...]
Tweet I am a great devotee of pretty. Yesterday, Carolann and I saw the film “Young Victoria”. Ahhh … it was utterly, utterly sumptuously beautiful. The story of Victoria’s accession to the throne and her romance with Albert was entrancing – I must confess to having had a very stereotyped view of Victoria as a [...]
Tweet Yep – I have a cardie the colour of a beautifully vivid, full of beta-carotene carrot. Thrifted from Vinnies. Hand knitted – exquisitely hand knitted in a stitch I have never seen and my mum cannot work out. With glorious buttons. For $5. Yum! Shame it’s now spring and too hot to wear it. [...]
Tweet ~ a tool used to wind yarn (painting by Simm Stickerin) ~ it’s many arms, simple yet beautiful ~ may I wind? ~ so whispery fleet ~ so marvellously graceful ~ so very satisfying ~ all the way from Sweden, such delight it filled my eyes with tears of delight
Tweet What do you get when you cross a half finished poncho with a muma who cannot knit fast enough? That’s what I was wondering as I cast off the front of Abby’s striped poncho – at a stage where it was taking 20 minutes per row there were SOOOOO many stitches. Hmmm … I [...]
Tweet I’ve been eyeing this off for a while – I mean truly, how could anyone resist such a wonderfully huge hank of wool! So I brought some home. And put it to good use – Berroco’s Nimbus . So, this morning, after Mum and Abby left for school, and the dishes were done, the [...]