February Furtling

As a lover of words, I was very happy to learn, last month, of a word that is not only new to me but rhymes with turtle…The word is ‘Furtle’ and ‘Furtling’ means ‘having a rummage, a delve, a look at the contents of something’ (Helen’s definition). So I have furtled around to see what […]

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Wool on Sundays – 158 (A Flower Yoke Cardigan)

Welcome, again, to Wool on Sundays! Can you believe it’s November already? And at last, we are back in wool weather. Frosty nights and misty mornings and time for the crochet blankets to come out from their Summer hiding and for dark evenings knitting in the Makery. You may remember this being knitted…and unknitted. And […]

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Work In Progress…

  How has your October been? I have made some progress on my Summer Stitching but not so much as I intended to and not enough to link up with the OMG Finish linky party. I had aimed to get the pages sewn up ready to be assembled into a book and I have done […]

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Wool on Sundays – 155 (Peter Mouse)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays! This month, I have finally done some knitting :) I finished the ‘Girlfriend Market Bag’ that I had just started on the last Wool on Sundays… And I found and finished (and gifted) a baby cardigan that had been mislaid in the Makery… But my favourite make is Peter Mouse. He is […]

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The blogger who came in from the garden

Whilst we were in Venice, a neighbour looked after our chicken. The chicken feed is kept in a dustbin an old stable, which in truth has been slowly falling into disrepair over more years than we’ve lived here. Rather than leave the door swing and bang in the wind, as it is wont to do, […]

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Wool on Sundays – 154 (square one)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays! I have concluded that that a heatwave, wonderful though it is in many respects, doesn’t make for a very yarnful time. I have, however, started a new knitting project and I’m happy to have something back on my needles again. So far it is just a square but I’m very […]

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