Apparently there’s a group of nuns in hiding after their knitting business went bust; they are even said to have mortgaged a monastery to finance their efforts to keep up with the latest fashions in knitting design. More on the story in Nuns on the Run (link from whip up). On first reading it’s funny; […]
I was chatting with Eve about crochet patterns that are worth making, and found out she didn’t know about Priscilla’s crochet. Priscilla’s website was off the air for what seemed like ages (maybe a year?) but is now back again; it has lots of crochet patterns for afghans and bookmarks and potholders and that sort […]
I was a few months pregnant when Tim asked when I was going to knit some bootees (aka booties) for the baby. I wondered why he hadn’t asked for the first child, he answered that he hadn’t known I could knit back then. Fair enough. So I got some yarn in time for the trip […]
Some time ago I promised our son that I would knit him a sweater. He picked the pattern, and the yarn, picking something (of course) in a fine yarn that took seemingly forever to finish. However, finish it I did, eventually. The pattern is Alice Starmore’s Fife, from the Fishermen’s Sweaters book. It comes in […]
When you’ve almost come to the end of the current list of craft projects (something that will probably apply to me in about, oh, the year 2012 or so if I’m lucky), and you’re looking around for ideas, here are a couple of web sites you might enjoy. Actually, look at them before you get […]
I had to laugh at Eve’s link to the story of the weenie who was scared of knitting needles (while admitting I first saw the link at whump dot com from following XML 2005 Aggregator links). I have a better story than mere knitting needles or even needlework needles, since all of those have really […]
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