On closer inspection, the lace scarf pattern I was following is for a DK yarn. Alas, I picked the pattern based on the amount of yarn I had,...

Finished the adult size pair of socks for Jo... ...and am cracking on with a toddler-sized blue one now. Finished the 10th repeat of the SP1...

Mandy, look here, this is what happened to the last of that neon acrylic... DK-weight yarns (mostly acrylic) knitted at T3, 1x1 rib on the ...

Or knitting within tent - geddit? .... Coventry Godiva Festival 2007, Greenspace tent. Click on the pics for bigger pictures. Some pictures ...

Well, after a bit of fiddling around, I got the Passap machine to do this: Please ignore the rotten edge with dropped stitches and hole...

But it's not a knitting machine - have a look here ... The Emily hat, plus rather sad pom-pom. I've still got some of this yarn le...

Not getting much knitting done this week... The lace got as far as almost 7 repeats, but had to be frogged back to 5 because I'd made su...

Look what I bought off Ebay... It's a french knitter - you just wind a handle, and out comes i-cord! So cool, and so much faster than do...

I can't post too much right now, because I'm off out the door... ...but my secret pal is the lovely Hanne from Finland, who has bee...

Some miscellaneous pictures... Some "dropped stitch" tools - made from scrapped machine needles, and a bit of Fimo. They went like...

I received "A Treasury of Knitting Patterns" and "A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns" by Barbara G. Walker in the po...

Here is the lace before it was frogged, plus a safety pin to hold up that dropped stitch.

Well, I was going to frog down to the first repeat... But as I approached that point, it looked as if I had a dropped stitch that had made i...

With the weather turning warmer, many of you are thinking of traveling (though some of you have just returned, you can play along). 1) What ...

Thanks for the lace tips, SP! Wish I'd read them first now! Knitting beyond the Hebrides I like the tip about using crochet cotton betwe...

Well, I've been carting the lace knitting around in my workbag like the complete plonker I am. It gets caught on things - I really shou...

This was at the freezing-to-death stage, so we all have our coats on! As always, click for bigger images! I worked on two hand-knit projects...

Had to cast this one off THREE times, because I spotted a dropped stitch. Pah! === Started on "Earth lit only by fire". Yes, I m...

Finished Otis - it's not really curved, I just did that to get it into shot! Another Lizard Ridge square. There are some garden pictures...

To my secret pal: I just finished knitting up "Otis" the scarf, and there's about 80g left over for a hat or something. Can...