Knitting

The band of the Coronet hat is complete, now comes the really scary part: picking up ninety stitches around it.  Picking up stitches is something I taught myself and I'm not good at it.  Norma the Incorrigible (sounds like a Viking, or a Veggie Tales character!) provided an

Double-posting late at night: cheap. Immediate comments from a friend: wonderful! Phoning the friend and talking for the first time in too long: priceless! Sea-mailed almost all the UK Christmas presents bar one yesterday.  Mr Bristow, yours will arrive ridiculously early because it got a plane ride instead of the

I promised acorn hat and sock pictures after the big political post, so here they are: One of these things is not like the other.  I managed to do one sock with one less stitch than the other, but I cannot believe it would make this big a difference!  I

Sehlat's sock greatly benefited from nearly three hours at the dentist Saturday morning while Hubby got savaged by the drill (Things you don't want to hear at the dentist #39 "I've never seen that before!")  I should be starting the toe this

My Mystery Yarn Parcel arrived from Jillz and it's wonderful!  Pictures tomorrow.