I wrote a couple days ago about a shipboard murder mystery we were watching on Netflix called High Seas. We were about halfway through the series at that point. Well, we finished binge-watching the rest of the series Monday afternoon – it was pretty good! I won’t say spectacular, because there were bits that were… Continue reading High Seas and Other Wacky Entertainment
Today was a pretty good day as far as getting some knitting done! Most of that was on my Forest Weave, but not all of it. Around midafternoon I realized I had complete flaked on my Custom Fit subscription for at least one, and possibly two, months. I have until the 31st to generate this… Continue reading Swatching on the High Seas
I didn’t get a whole lot of knitting in today. We had a little running around to do, and then when we got home, I had to get some yarn chores done. Mostly, this consisted of labeling balls of leftover yarn and putting them away. And gathering up stray skeins I got out of the… Continue reading Yarn Chores
This month’s Harney & Son’s tea subscription came yesterday – it was a very fancy tin of their 30 Year Anniversary tea! Although the ingredients list just says “black tea” the story about it on the side of the tin says that it is made up of a blend of Ceylon and India teas, with… Continue reading Tea for Two: Super Fancy Black Tea
I spent about half my day last Saturday candying slices of every kind of citrus fruit I could get my hands on. And it mostly worked out OK! Actually, I’m still coming down from the vitamin C-laced sugar high. It all started last week at work. One of my team mates brought in some super-fancy… Continue reading OT: Candy Land
This skein from the Leicester Longwool sheep breed, and specifically from the LanaRosa Sheep and Cattle Company farm. The yarn feels very rich and has a lovely drapey feeling even in the skein like this. It is very naturally shiny, and feels pretty soft. This breed has, as their name implies, longish curly locks of… Continue reading SE2SE Yarn – Leicester Longwool
With all these experiments and random knitting exercises I’m doing lately, I have run into a new problem – random swatch storage. When I do a swatch or two for a specific project, the swatch usually gets stored in the page protector with the pattern and at least one yarn label. But all of a… Continue reading Swatch Storage
Now that I’m into the central section, I decided to try the chevron pattern two different ways – one repeat of garter and one of stockinette. Here is how that turned out… I think in this section the pattern is much clearer in the stockinette section, though the garter part is interesting in its own… Continue reading Mosaic Knitting – the Plot Thickens
This month’s tea club has arrived, and it is full of April flowers! The Yellow and Blue is a tea that I have not only had before, I actually have another tin of it right now. Which is fine – one for work and one for home! It is a nice, mild floral scented tea… Continue reading April Tea for Two
Quite A Yarn 