One of the things that has been “made” recently has been a Knitpicks/Knitpro case for my Symfonie wood and Nova interchangeable circular needle set as well as for the DPNs. The set came with a nasty vinyl case that stuck together and smelled funny and was sort of hard to find anything in and was …
Monday I went into the city and sat in Trafalgar Square knitting with probably about 20 other people. For those of you who do not listen to Brenda Dayne of Cast On or do not live in the UK currently I am going to give you a quick tutorial as to why I did …
This past weekend was our first annual 4th of July party. Attending it were 2 Zimbabweans, a couple of Americans, a family of Indians an Italian and, oh yeah, a few Brits! I don’t know about you but to me that was about as American of a party as we could have had. It was …
So on Monday I got yet another package from my lovely friend Tini this time containing all of her leftover bits of sock yarn. I am planning on knitting this blanket when, well, I don’t know what will have to happen to make it start… But I am planning on it as it is totally …
So, last night I got a bug up my butt and decided to learn how to Navajo ply my spun singles. For those of you not into spinning, Navajo plying is a technique that is essentially like making the base chain for crochet except with a spinning wheel that keeps trying to twist your chain …
When did I become a perfectionist? I mean really, when?! Last I remember I was changing colors in an afghan by (gasp!) knotting yarns together and the next thing you know I’m ripping out 90 or so rows of sock yarn which had been knit on size 2.5mm needles (for my crochet buddies, this …
There is really nothing much better than getting real mail and the past 2 days have been most excellent for that here at The Old Chapel. Monday I received my graduation pictures from Florida. Still haven’t gotten my diploma yet, but that’s ok. Anyway, I had ordered a package with four 5X7’s in it to …
So, it’s been an interesting week here at the Chapel. As all of you who have tuned in previously know our blue shaggin’ wagon bit the dust last Sunday on a run to the train station. It’s transmission gave out and it would have cost much more to fix than it was worth. It took …
Saturday the hubby and I went to Coventry for the UK Ravelry Day. On the way there, we stopped in Leighton Buzzard and picked-up a lady whom I had met on a UK Ravelry Day forum offering and looking for rides. Her name is Tini and we honestly could not have had a better car …
I hinted yesterday that I would have a post of all of the goodies that I got while in Edinburgh today so here it is! I primarily got yarns at 2 shops, K1 Yarns and the department store John Lewis. The reason for the John Lewis expenditure is two-fold. First, they had some Noro Kureyon, …
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