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Meanwhile, it’s cold here, but there’s not been even a hint of snow. 🙁 We’ve been on shivering walks and seen old man’s beard, which makes you feel as though you’re in a snowstorm if you screw up your eyes and squint at it:- Old Man’s Beard For lots of reasons! To begin with, creating three-dimensional characters is a fabulous craft in its own right and nothing at all like knitting garments. For You may also be pleased to hear that I don’t use any fancy yarns - just double knitting yarn which is always available. This means that my patterns never date and the first dolls I designed in 1980 can still be knitted today.
Or at least it was supposed to be abstract, but it started looking overly like a bird, so I decided to doodle a little with some lilac thread and a tapestry needle:- Pattern Description from Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines: “We love these pants. The original, cuffed jeans version was first published in knitty.com, the online knitting magazine. Babies who wore these pants were mobbed with admirers asking where they got them. We even heard from a Swedish kids boutique that wanted to produce them for sale. They are so irresistible, so comfortable for babies to wear, and so hardwearing and easy-care, that we are on a mission to make Blu baby jeans a staple of the modern baby’s wardrobe. It is a crime to put tender baby legs into stiff fabric jeans, when this cuter, stretchier, softer version is there for the knitting. Moms, grans, and aunties of the world: Git going! Make it happen! Because we can never stop fiddling with an idea, we also cooked up a pattern for unisex baggy shorts. Baby surfers, with their tiny huarache sandals and bushy bushy blond hairdos, need a fringed, cropped version. To make the cropped pants, simply omit the cuff instructions, cast on at the point indicated in the pattern for the cropped version, and otherwise follow the pattern to completion. The instructions for the fringe appear at the end of the pattern.” Perhaps best of all, with my designs you will never run out of reasons to knit. You can make them as gifts for birthdays, as mascots, for Tonight, I’ve been a-scrumbling with a purpose. A combination of ultra-cheap jeans and hours spent crawling on the floor playing farms with the Toddler Twinnage leads, inevitably and without deviation, to this dismal state of affairs:- Stitch-by-stitch the doll comes to life and when completed there is a marvellous sense of achievement. The knitter has created a sweet little three-dimensional work of soft sculpture, just by following words on paper.My nephew Theo and his family are coming to celebrate Thanksgiving with his English cousins in London. Theo is organising it all from afar. I hope you have all enjoyed your turkey. Theo, who has Covid, isn’t feeling too bad. I hope he will have been able to celebrate with his family and his parents. Meanwhile I am told that the London party is to go ahead without him, being the first time that all the London cousins - all of Rachel’s grandchildren, to put it another way — have been together in one place. Seven girls and (recent additions) two boys.
Quite a bright day, although very cold, I am told. I knit very happily on, and should finish the ribbing for the first sleeve tomorrow. Meg says in the EPS leaflet which arrived opportunely from Schoolhouse yesterday that you can use the system to knit in either direction, but she prefers to do it this way — get the relatively boring body out of the way first. The rest goes so much faster. make the trip and to take over for him here, but not keen on bank holiday traffic. We decided against. The Londoners are going to have their Thanksgiving anyway tomorrow. Theo has sent them the spreadsheet. He is a brilliant organiser. I’ve heard a bit of it, and was surprised that bread sauce wasn’t included. Is that just a British thing? It was my husband’s favourite bit of Christmas dinner and has almost become mine although I remain faithful to cranberry sauce in the end .
present mood. Dr Porter went on to tell us about oesophageal cancer, which sounds remarkably unpleasant; Coren I found a list of road closures for the marathon on Sunday. I'd prefer a map, but clearly the centre of town is going to be badly affected. I fear for the Medes and the Elamites. Senator Mitchell. When it was all over, Mr. Blair suddenly seemed to think that he had done it all.
No crises today. The new carer is named Judith. We have had a peaceful time of it. Alexander and Ketki are coming tomorrow. I bought his Christmas present recently — the only one so far. Helen came this morning and kindly wrapped it up for me. Use a thin yarn and a crochet hook. *whispers:* When things get difficult, you can abandon your crochet hook and embroider with a tapestry needle. But please don’t tell anyone I said that. The sourdough turned out well, Robin, although perhaps not quite well enough. We made two loaves this time. Wafa wanted to bake one on Saturday evening. I left the other to rise overnight in the refrigerator. I think I got slightly better oven spring with mine but I think we can do better. Kirsten, I think you’re thinking in the right direction. Poor Paradox thinks she is defending something Most knitted garments belong to the fashion world. So, a knitter will choose (for example) a sweater pattern to suit her lifestyle and to compliment other items in her wardrobe.Tomorrow will be the first time that Rachel and Ed’s nine grandchildren — seven girls and (recent additions) two boys — will all have been together. Helen came. We talked about driveways. I think she and David are going to consult an Edinburgh lawyer. I think that's a good idea.
I reached the armholes of my EPS sweater. And what should arrive in this morning’s post but the Schoolhouse Press EPS leaflet! I spent much of the day hovering on the brink, calculating and re-calculating the sleeve. I finally cast it on and actually ribbed a few rounds. There was at least a display of needlework cushion covers among which was one showing Swiss chard which we both admired. But I looked it up when I gotThis tip is useful for sewing on any extra small items neatly, such as arms. First cut a suitable length of yarn, then untwist one end and pull out one of the strands. Use the remaining strands for the sewing. The same split yarn method can also be used for sewing seams on small pieces to eliminate bulk. It’s a dangerous topic, all right, and I don't want to hurt feelings and provoke anger here. Northern Irish politics are all the more dangerous. I her husband will be here for a few days, starting on Saturday. More comfort through the night. Both are Wordle: I would regard today’s word as on the tough side, and was pleased with my four. My two starters yielded two brown vowels. I struggled for a long time to think of any word that would fit, and finally hit on one that was much less than satisfactory. I knew it would be wrong, but it turned both vowels green. After much thought and messing around, I found a fully-qualified guess, and it was right.
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