Coastline

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Coastline scarves have been pressed, packed and sent off to Tea Green.

Reviewing the Situation

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Evaluating the sample scarf.

Firth of Tay – notes and thoughts

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A round-up of my design and sampling notes for the Firth of Tay yardage.

Finished and photographed

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‘Firth of Tay’ is complete.

huck lace draft

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The creative redhead who blogs at Handcrafted with Altitude asks whether I will share the draft I used for the crinkly merino/silk scarf in huck lace. The answer is yes, certainly. I planned a threading on eight shafts — and … Read More

nicely crinkly

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Here is the merino-silk combination straight off the loom and looking rather stunned, as they often do. I treated it the same way as the sample. First I washed it ever so gently in the sink, using Ecover’s “Delicate” as … Read More

new toys!

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Well, new books. Books are Serious so really shouldn’t be denoted toys no matter how many you have, right? I have just had the pleasure of adding these to my LibraryThing collection: That’s volume 2 of Peggy Osterkamp’s New Guide … Read More

of cashmere and consolation

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Hey, more snow! We had quite a good weekend, with sufficient sunshine to cheer us up and even bring about a bit of thawing. This morning, however, it was heavily overcast and snowing again. Grumpy bit follows – skip to … Read More