Emerald's blog for documenting making, doing and finding things interesting...
The annual Southwyck Christmas party went well yesterday; caught up with a lot of friends I haven’t seen in a while, ate and drank in a festive fashion, and even had an unprompted singalong!....
So this years gifts have been mostly handmade, including; Peppermint & Rose kind-of-creams* Frankincense / Clementine bath salts** (a bit fail, as most people have showers I found…) Fudge*** – supremo hit (if I...
Loved, loved this Noa Noa jumper given to me by a far away flatmate. It was constructed by two jumpers, one inside the other. Made of quite fine, but toasty warm mohair. But! Mohair...
After some initial colour doubts that meant it languished for almost a year and half (!) at collar stage, this jumper was a breeze to knit; so much quicker and more satisfying trying on...
Dunno why I look so glum – I’m v happy knitting things in the round, and Wicked is knit from the top down too… sooooo much more satisfying to try on as you go...
Somehow I wasn’t aware of her before now (although had loved her Target Wave mittens in Interweave). Just saw that 3 of her booklets will be available at Loop soon, and so want to...
So this year we found pick-you-own heaven in the form of Garsons… At the last minute we discovered our intended PYO was closed due to *no strawberries at all* and so Garsons was picked...
Finally got around to recycling a fave cardi (has beautiful glitterly bits in it – never found yarn like it…). It had felted a little too much, moths had got at it, and the...
I’d been tempted to try this waffley, tweedish stitch for a while but could never make sense of the way the pattern was written.Example patterns include exhaustive, but v. complicated abbreviations, and overly descriptive...
Previously I couldn’t get this yarn to knit up without pooling in horrible puddles… Garter stitch however, has solved it and I now have a project to use the remaining ball after the 1...
