Knit's a fine life

Friday, 29 January 2010

Knit Bags

Should have been born in the '40s.



Thanks to multicrafty for your pattern. Though let's face it, it's just a bunch of rectangles, isn't it.


Friday, 22 January 2010

wire haired wonder


The epic tail (ha.) of the beloved family dog Bertie (Wooster-St Aubyn to give him his full title) - http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/s/2063929_bertie_the_dog_recovers_from_christmas_adventure

Monday, 18 January 2010

Fiknito!




I know it's not much to look at, technically speaking, but I'm still disproportionately pleased to have made my knitting comeback with this chunky scarf for my goddaughter. It's a tad bobbly along the sides, and I only realised you're not supposed to knot new colours together once halfway through - on my third attempt. I've also had to cover up a few schoolgirl errors with the buttons and ribbon. So we'll put it down to experience. She's only three anyway - who's to know.

Saturday, 16 January 2010

Sc'arf a pound of tuppeny rice

..is what my latest attempt looks like. This is true of both the pink/purple stripey number being created, with attempted nochalance, for an unsuspecting 3 year old, and my latest mangled attempts at legal drafting.

Knitting merrily and rather self-satisfiedly away on the knorthern line this morning, and thinking how easily knitting big wool on big sticks came to a girl with big hips was apparently the equivalent to the karmic forces of a sea flare sent up on a stormy night. Ineptness (tying knots in the wool to change colour, instead of moving, literally seamlessly on) and inertia (5 wasted hours in a library making this blog) settled in.

The following simple and unbiased method of self assessment should motivate me soon enough, surely:
Prod-knit-ivity: 0
Proscrastknitcation: 10

Ours is knit to reason why...

...or 'while' as Gavin & Stacey's Pamela would have it. Welcome to my little bloguette, for all those who enjoy a good procrastiknit, a bad pun and Harry Enfield's Mr Cholmondley Warner.

"knit rider"

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