Category Archives: Knitting

The snood

February 2, 2012 – 11:31 pm

I went to Venice and I bought a snood. Sure, lots of other great things happened, too, but the snood has changed things. I had been looking at knitting one before, but never really saw the point in them until it was almost too cold to bear it. The one I bought from a random [...]

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A scarf fit for a pilot

January 29, 2012 – 11:11 pm

Yesterday evening one of my housemates made the oddest request. He wanted me to knit him a scarf for his figure to go on top his model aeroplane when he’ll fly it later this year. How could I possibly resist this? The scarf was another lengthways scarf with five rows knitted over 65 stitches. I [...]

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Hot pink, emerald and gold lengthways scarf

January 23, 2012 – 4:00 pm

I first started a scarf for my friend’s birthday all the way back in October when I opted for a patchworky looking pattern out of various knit and purl stitches over four rows with two different colours until I realised that the colours, whilst matching really well, were my favourite colours, not hers. Knowing that [...]

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Too many knitting projects!

January 16, 2012 – 11:16 pm

I was hoping that once I’d finished my Christmas knitting I would have time for other things, namely the first jumper for myself, but I’m finding that I’m drowning in projects! There are a few projects I started months ago and they’re now wanting to be done, as well as other things on my mind. [...]

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Woll-Weber KG

January 15, 2012 – 8:49 pm

Every time I visit my grandparent’s home town I stop by the only dedicated wool shop in town – Woll-Weber KG. It has 2.5 floors of all things wool from Knit Pro needles to sockwool to sections dedicated to fleece, as well as a whole floor just for discounted end-of-range wool with prices of 1 [...]

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Pictures of the purple jumper

January 11, 2012 – 1:41 am

All the images from the purple jumper. More info about the knitting here – the story of the jumpers.

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Pictures of the green jumper

January 10, 2012 – 2:36 am

All the images from the green jumper. More info about the knitting here – the story of the jumpers.

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The story of the jumpers [#secretchristmasknitting]

January 9, 2012 – 8:01 am

I can still hear myself insisting over and over to my friend that I was happy with just being able to do a garter stitch and that I didn’t feel like I needed to learn purl or any other fancy stitches. That was back in 2009 and since then I’ve learned a few more stitches. [...]

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Yet another post on my Christmas knitting

December 20, 2011 – 6:56 am

I’m happy to report that the Christmas knitting which looked so intimidating just a couple of days ago is now much more manageable. I completed and by now even gift-wrapped two major projects that have taken up a lot of my time of the past months and I can’t wait for Christmas purely so I [...]

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A tree in a tree!

December 16, 2011 – 5:49 pm

Took a break from Christmas knitting the other day and attempted a couple of Christmas decorations with dubious results. I made a star of which we won’t speak of again and a Christmas tree based on this pattern. I’m not very happy with the tree though crocheting a gold border around it gave it some [...]

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Christmas presents

December 12, 2011 – 5:21 pm

I’m starting to feel the pressure with all the Christmas knitting I planned to do. Originally I thought I had done it all well – I started before the end of October and I laid out exactly what I was going to knit for everyone and got the wool ahead of time. And then it [...]

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De Quervain syndrome – ‘Knitter’s thumb’ update

November 29, 2011 – 11:26 pm

I’ve mentioned my thumb/hand issues before here and here and today went back to my GP surgery to have it looked at as it’s now been a month and the pain is still ongoing restricting not only my knitting, but also other daily activities. For example getting dressed is proving to be an issue daily. [...]

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Ongoing ‘knitter’s thumb’

November 15, 2011 – 12:20 am

Two weeks ago at around this time in the evening I felt the beginning of the strain in my right thumb. This left me with a bandaged thumb/hand for six days barely being able to use my hand without pain for four of them. Since then I have been very cautious and hardly knitted or [...]

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Knitter’s thumb!

November 1, 2011 – 6:50 pm

Went to bed last night with a slight strain in my right thumb and put it down to too much knitting, even though I hadn’t really. Woke up throughout the night with pain, pins and needles and a slight bit of numbness so decided to go to the doctor’s. Apparently I’ve overused and strained my [...]

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Getting over my inner swinedog

August 30, 2011 – 8:35 pm

One of the things I’ve touched on in a recent post is that I am trying my hardest to become more grounded and it involves getting back into a routine with life. This isn’t just having that cup of tea in the morning or getting up at the same time each day, but mainly it’s [...]

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#TwitLight: Who are you, @sahfenn?

June 24, 2011 – 9:00 am

TwitLight is a Twitter Spotlight posted at random when I have time and submissions. Take a look at all the previous TwitLights and you are more than welcome to take part, too! #TwitLight has finally returned after an absence of over two years and what a better way to come back with @sahfenn! I first [...]

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Knitting: Green double moss stitch scarf

May 8, 2011 – 10:53 pm

I’ve been rubbish with knitting this year and this is only my third completed knitting project which I’m mainly putting down to lack of time. I started this around two months ago and finally finished it yesterday. The above image shows the progression over time and, interestingly, also shows just how much lighting affects a [...]

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Red Nose Day call centre

March 19, 2011 – 11:40 am

During last night’s Red Nose Day I was in one of the many donation call centres set up by companies to aid the Red Nose Day charity. This one was organised by work and, seeing I probably wouldn’t have done anything else, I decided I might as well do something worthwhile with my time. Some [...]

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