Our Virtual Community
The Internet has only been available since 1990, the year my youngest son was born. I remember being shown that I was on it in 1996 (via my job) and feeling astonished. But I soon embraced email and gradually began … Continued
Happy Christmas Everyone!
Speaking of Christmas Jumpers, can I thank the Demented Fairy for sending me this ace knitting pattern? And here are some knitting jokes The jumper I got for Xmas kept picking up static electricity so I took it back to … Continued
More lovely Elizabeth Zimmermann jumpers
I have been waiting patiently for one of my friends Giorgia to finish her sweater as she strongly encouraged me to do the Knit a long. And “Ta Da!” her jumper is finished. It is such a beautiful one, isn’t … Continued
Learning to weave in a day
You may recall I have a friend Bridget who we met on holiday. She and her husband sat on the coach in front of us, and while he studied a map of Jordan she knitted. We got on very well, … Continued
Making Christmas presents from scraps
One of the great benefits of the shoe making course is that I was able to pick up lots of discarded leather pieces. In the photograph below I include my feet, for scale. I think the dark brown is probably … Continued
Do you care about how you look?
How we look is such an important aspect of who and what we are. Just as we have a character and personality, so too, we have an appearance – a body, a shape, a way of talking and walking. We … Continued
What to learn next?
Regular readers will know that my main mission in life is to learn! After the bootmaking Ceci was asking What next? And so were we! I love travel, exploring nature, meeting new people, eating food especially food I have never … Continued
How successful senior women are portrayed on TV (British version)
A recent discussion on Meghan Markle found all of us agreed that the outfits the women wore on Suits bore little resemblance to the workwear you might find in a modern lawyers office in NYC. I guess that is true … Continued
Colourful suggestions for darker skinned people
Do you follow the wonderful, funny, talented Nakisha Smith’s blog Dressmaking Debacles? She and I tested a jeans pattern together and I have followed her ever since. The other day she wrote an interesting blog on colour analysis. She concluded that … Continued
What’s happened to the cardigan?
(sorry about my management of posts this weekend – post on colour coming on Tuesday) Since I last wrote about a cardigan, I made another EZ yoked sweater. Partly I was waiting for the Knit along knitters to finish their … Continued