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Summer of Lace

Finished a Secret Thing for my Ravelry swap partner, but I haven't mailed it yet, so no photos or details. I want her to be the first one to see it, besides Hubby. It knit up fast and was a welcome break from the endless Butternut scarf, which

Tweets for May 16th to May 31st

* There is something deeply addictive about mail tracking websites when you're waiting for a parcel. * Knitting on needles made from stealth bomber material is curiously faster than on wooden needles, and infinitely geekier. * Yellow Lamborghini in the parking lot at work, right next to my car. Guess it

Slow going

My Butternut scarf looks exactly the same but longer, twelve of eighteen repeats are complete. The pattern says to do fifteen repeats, but I have extra yarn. The only difference is I moved it to a set of Blackthorn needles, double points made from the material used for the outer

Tweets for May 1st to 15th

* Disturbed by partial spider web INSIDE my car, wasn't there when I parked this morning. Where is the spider now? * Bugger. No clear majority government for the UK. * When the party with the LEAST votes decides who forms the UK Government, something went badly wrong with the process.

Spaghetti junction

Lace knitting looks like a pile of noodle barf while it's in progress. Working on a knitspot pattern, the Butternut scarf, in hot pink Malabrigo lace yarn. Nice simple pattern, and I have enough yarn to add a few repeats. There's a misplaced purl stitch which

Tweets for April 2nd to 30th

* Contact lens boxes mis-labelled, v confused. Left is the side with the wedding ring, right? * May have reached SABLE (stash acquisition beyond life expectancy) on spinning fibre, still in denial about yarn * Destashing on Ravelry is very hit and miss, this time was a BIG hit. Now for the jewellery

Spinning FO: Rose Grey alpaca 2-ply

Finished my first alpaca skein in my favourite colour of undyed alpaca fleece. I have some leftover singles to demonstrate Andean plying with Laura. Fiber: Rose Grey alpaca from Prairieland Peruvian Alpacas Construction: 2 ply Amount: 290 yards, 3.5 oz Tool: Majacraft Rose spinning wheel The singles snapped a

FO: Summer Limeade socks

Finished a pair of socks with the components I like. Toe up, 2x2 ribbing, lace panels from the 365 Knitting Stitches A Day perpetual calendar, eye of partridge heel flap, and a picot cast off. I extended the slip stitch pattern up beyond the heel flap so it covers the

Recipe: English Flapjacks

English flapjacks are an oat bar made with golden syrup, not a pancake. We found Tate and Lyle's Golden Syrup in the grocery store this month (Dierbergs in Creve Coeur, with the other syrups), and set about making proper English flapjacks. It took four batches to get this

Tweets for the week of April 2nd

* SO looking forward to playing Sid Meier's Colonization again! But the new version, on the new Alienware machine. * Own up St Louis, who washed their car yesterday? This rain is on YOU! * Sorted fibre stash in search of missing spindle, horrible realisation I could spin till Doomsday and

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