I have to say, the red one was even more satisfying to knit than the silver one. Oh, and that rogue strand of green across the bottom of the pic? Definitely not a third one. Definitely not. Besides, I’ve got to put the handles and drawstrings on these babies. I am thinking of other bags [...]
Tagged Everlasting BagstopperOkay, so it’s bag season around here, apparently. As soon as I finished my last Everlasting Bagstopper, I missed it. So I kinda started another one. Well, I mean, I like knitting them, and it isn’t like you only need one shopping bag, right? And on top of that, the brown paper bag I have [...]
Tagged Everlasting Bagstopper, Yarn makes it all betterOne of the things about Intolerable Cruelty 2 (progress report: no progress) is that it involved me rescuing this yarn from the go-to-charity box I established in a fit of decluttering earlier this year. I have been carrying this silvery tweedy cotton/linen blend for years and years, and this February I had a bit of [...]
Tagged Everlasting Bagstopper, FO Report, Yarn makes it all betterI’m still recovering from being sick and that means Recovery Knitting. If you continue reading this blog post, I can assure you that you are unlikely to find anything of interest. Surely you must know that Recovery Knitting means dull knitting? After all, when you’re ailing, you don’t want some flashy fair isle waggling its [...]
Tagged Everlasting Bagstopper, intolerable cruelty, Silver Sands, Yarn makes it all betterSo, in my last blog post, I had intended to talk a bit about how reading and writing fit in to my current obsession with nourishing, but instead I got all feverish and distracted talking about my equivalent of a raging girl-crush on Kaz Cooke’s excellent volume “Real Gorgeous”. (God, that’s such a good book. [...]
Tagged banging on, reading time