Posted by sewjournal on April 18th 2012
I’ve just finished knitting this 2ply cashmere scarf for my daughter. It is so very soft I just want to keep touching it. Look! A sale! I bought this lovely Cashmere yarn from Anne at Knitters Addiction. It was $19.80 for a 100g ball which is 1000yds (916m). That is enough for two scarves. Anyway [...]
Posted by sewjournal on April 13th 2012
Out with the old and … You know how it is when you’re surfing through the blogs in your reader. Some of the blog’s you really used to enjoy have become ho-hum, or totally self-absorbed in a way that’s not interesting or sharing but that’s self-indulgent and I’m on the point of culling some I’ve followed for [...]
Posted by sewjournal on April 11th 2012
This week is my blog’s 2nd birthday and my ??th birthday. I was very lucky and received thoughtful gifts, money and flowers! Here are the flowers. I also received The Knitting Book by Frederica Patmore and Vikki Haffenden. I haven’t had a chance to read it in depth yet but I have to say it has the [...]
Posted by sewjournal on April 04th 2012
Last weekend I washed and blocked the Japanese Feathers Scarf I’ve been working on. These flexible, superfine blocking wires make it so much easier than when I blocked the shawl with pins alone. Anyway here’s the finished article. I showed it to my daughter on a FaceTime call the other day and she likes it so it [...]
Posted by sewjournal on April 02nd 2012
We all know that a quilt on a bed, on a chair, or on the floor is a cat magnet. See below: However, I have incontrovertible proof that it’s not just because they are horizontal and soft to lie on. Here is a photo of Mr Tiggy unable to resist the pull of a vertical [...]
Posted by sewjournal on March 31st 2012
Blocking Wires I’m sorry I’ve been absent but I’ve been very busy and and a little “blog-lazy”. I’ve finished knitting my Japanese Feather scarf and the other day my ultrafine blocking wires arrived so I’m hoping to get it blocked this weekend so I can show you the finished product next week. I bought these from Inspinknity and I notice at the moment they [...]
Posted by sewjournal on March 21st 2012
I was sitting hand-quilting my In a Spin quilt this afternoon. I looked up and saw that Mr Tiggy had decided to stake his claim to an empty shelf in the Ikea cupboard I use for my stash. Previously the stash shared the cupboard with books but now that we have all those lovely new bookshelves I [...]
