Everything is better with added sparkles. We went to an evening party and baby Isla needed something glam. It was a good excuse to dig around in my yarn stash, especially as Graeme has been threatening to throw out all of my yarn unless some of it disappears. I found some teal sparkly yarn in my stash (I bought this to knit up a...
handspun
Navajo plying handspun singles (say that five times fast for a tongue twister!)
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Lucky me, I spent a lovely few hours spent plying up two very thin stored spun singles. One, a moody ocean-coloured cornucopia of greens and blues. The other, a bold purple-grey-petrol-white-black shock of striped colours. I navajo plied them to preserve the colour changes and create a self-striping yarn when knitting (and also because navajo plying is great and is almost as good...
Lookee! My "Life is Beautiful" stitchery is on the cover of Hoop-La! Issue 3. It's also looking fab on their Facebook page all stitched up on simple white cotton. Cover feature, yay. Inside the magazine are step-by-step and letter-by-letter instructions for the design... ... and an interview with me too. Yeah, that's my name in capital letters. *Almost* as good as lights. ...
This is how I feel these days. I think they call it "baby brain". There's a lot of not-sleeping, bottle-washing, baby-feeding, baby-bathing, washing and overall frazzledness. I get to knit a few rows every now and then, and I am oh-so-slowly rearranging my office/craft room to make it baby friendly so we can spend a few afternoons there. Progress is slow. Sewing and...
