Photos from the lace knitting workshop...

This is just a tiny bit of the basement at Loop. Can I just live here? Please? With the yarn?














See? SEE HOW MUCH YARN?

There's tea and biscuits. I could totally live down there.












Why, yes, I AM a giant knitting geek. But I got to meet Amy Singer, and she was lovely!

Analogue Amnesty

I am excited to the point of dorkishness about Analogue Amnesty, which is running in Brick Lane, East London from the 7th November to the 17th January (last day for bringing stuff in is the 13th January) organised by a local knitter-artist lady, Rachael Matthews, who also wrote the Knitorama and Hookorama books. The idea is this: you bring them your old VHS and audio cassette tapes, that you don't watch/listen to any more and...THEY SPIN THE TAPE INTO YARN! This is so very very what I'm asking my Nan for money towards for Christmas. I had a rummage through my bedroom when I was last at my parents' place, and came up with some definite spinning candidates (can we say The Hamster Dance? Also PJ and Duncan? I think we can...). But seriously folks, this thing looks like it'll be extremely cool. It's so logical! I mean, the motivation for decluttering was always to make space for more yarn. This is even better- the clutter magically TURNS INTO the yarn! Also, because magnetic tape takes such a long time to rot if it's in landfill (1,000 years), this is a totally eco-friendly way to get new yarn and clear out some junk. Just in case, y'know, you want to justify the acquisition of yet more yarn to someone...

Of knitting and sleepiness...

I think I must really really love knitting. Even when I have verrrry little energy, I still find just enough to knit.

I'm now about to crest the half-way-through point on my Tuscany shawl precisely- as in, I'm already on the mid-way repeat, but I'm about to be mid-way through it. I'm amazed at how fast this thing is working up. But not at its utter gorgeousness- I love showing people what I'm making at the moment because there are so many oooohs and aaaaaahs. I think I may actually be getting the real real hang of lace knitting, which is awesome (especially as after this one, I have three more shawls/wraps to make for my bridesmaids).

To stitch or not to stitch...

Also known as 'I don't know whether to go to the UK Stitch & Bitch day or not'.

See, I want to go. I mean, seriously, I'm OMGDEBBIESTOLLER out the wazoo. The issue is my Mum needs me to go down to my hometown to do flowers-and-cakes-and-weddings-oh-my! for a weekend. And the weekend suggested was that weekend. I *could* go on a Friday afternoon, and come back on Saturday morning, but I don't want to do myself out of spending time with Mum and Dad.

What to do, WHAT TO DO?