Bram Stoker's Dracula: vampires, a gothic romance, a shawl, and flowers.
This has turned into a rather long, rambling back story/context. If you want to scroll down for actual information, please go ahead. Growing up I had a voracious appetite for reading. I can remember getting special permission to be able to withdraw more than ten library books per week because ten just wasn’t enough. And I don’t mean short stories either, I’m talking about full-sized books. I seem to have read an awful lot of American teen horror because they often featured cheerleaders and prom nights which were pretty alien to me in reality. I’d have loved Buffy - I’m...
The Innocent hat debate: should charity knitting/crochet be better valued?
Every year this debate comes up on Facebook/twitter etc: the Innocent hats... This year's latest debate that I read was prompted by the sharing of Joy aka The Knitting Goddess' blog post HERE. I think Joy makes a number of good points in her post, and I've seen so many people agree, as well as some people seemingly getting very offended by it - it is not an attack on the knitters who generously give their time to knit these hats; what it does do however is question whether we would be better using our time to knit other, perhaps...
Knitting should never involve being judgemental. Also, a Ravelry-use tutorial.
As many of you know, photographing yarn colour combinations is one of my long-standing and favourite things to do; I love sharing them with you all. And it's very rare for us to be doing the trendy thing, or latest thing, BUT don't you think the #whatthefade KAL is the PERFECT thing for us to get on board with??! Well we do, and so we will have another range of #wtfkal kits in tonight's update. Hooray! Most of them are one-offs, so they are pretty special. These ones have been picked out by Laura, with Claire and I (Victoria) oohing...
Hobbies and Mental health
Hi all, Laura here! Victoria has let me loose on the blog so you should see a few more posts from me over the next few weeks. My first is a bit of a cheat as it is actually a guest post. We were recently contacted by Maria Cannon of HobbyJr to see if we would be interested in an article she had written. Those who have been following us over the past year will know that mental health is close to both mine and Victoria's hearts. What you may not know is that my struggle with anxiety is actually...
The big summer Titus update: more info
Hello! As you may know, we're having an update tonight (31.07.17), which is all about the Titus.. We have Titus 4ply; an ECY classic of superwash merino/silk, which knits up with great drape and stitch definition. You can see all the amazing Ravelry projects in it HERE. Below is a little taster of the 4ply, but you can see a FULL preview of everything that'll be available over on our Facebook event page which we created for this update (we're going to be doing that for all updates going forward as it's a brilliant way to be able to post ...
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