Almost eleven years ago, to celebrate our friend Liz’s upcoming wedding, a few Oxford Bluestockings knitters piled into cars and drove to the dye studio then run by Fyberspates. A very happy afternoon of dyeing ensued. This is all the yarn we dyed that day, on a variety of bases. The sparkly one (I think?) […]
Earlier this year when I launched the KNITSONIK Stranded Colourwork Playbook I had this idea that I could knit everything from the book again, sharing the progress of my work as I went and showing how each of the patterns might be adapted. This idea slowed to a glacial pace when my psoriatic arthritis got […]
I’ve been working on a personal challenge to try and walk at least 10,000 steps a day and it is a quest that I am relishing. The best part is the local brickwork. I’m clearly not alone in being appreciative of this aspect of Reading; one of my most commented on blog-posts is this one […]