Life LackaDaisiCal

  Visit my youtube episode  “December Already” Grab a tea (or coffee) and join me for a bit of knit chat! I’ve been very busy and have started a couple of new projects. I’m joining in on the Arne & Carlos Christmas Balls advent Knitalong. Can I keep this up and make 24 balls before Christmas? We shall see! You can still join in.....find the pattern on the Arne & Carlos web site http://www.arnecarlos.com and make sure you follow their youtube advent adventures! I’ve fallen for the new Kaffe Fasset shades in Rowan Felted Tweed, and have started the Paint Daub Blanket - but I’m knitting a shawl/scarf !!! See the blanket pattern here https://knitrowan.com/en/designs-patterns/paint-daubs-blanket Finished objects from my Rowan Magazine 68 queue....are.....the Marram Throw and the Fiction cardigan, both designed by Erica Knight and both using Rowan Brushed Fleece! Check out my review of Magazine 68 and my Mag 68 Queue! I’m looking for new things to do while we “stay ho...

If you are like me, if you are sitting...you are knitting - right? Once you've got that stitch pattern down pat or when you are knitting swathes of beautiful fine gauge stocking stitch, you NEED entertaining! My latest project, Amaryllis by Marie Wallin (from her Springtime Collection ) is an interesting combination of challenging knitting, followed by LOTS of stocking stitch! The charted border of the body and the sleeves.....has some tricky irregular spacing...caught me out I have to admit! Then there are those LONG floats! But once those borders are done.....it's all stocking stitch....knitting to motor along with! Thank goodness for our modern technology! Technology today makes it EASY to keep yourself entertained while knitting! You can watch a favourite DVD (the more times you watch a DVD the less you actually have to watch it - as you are knitting you see the movie in your mind even though you might not be watching the screen! I'm right aren't I???)  You...