Blog & features

Spinning experiments

25 February 2010

When I bought my wheel back in April 2009, although I ordered a range of fibres, I got hooked on spinning dyed merino top because of the amazing range of colours available. With hindsight this… Read more

Competition time!

24 February 2010

I hinted about it last week and now I’m excited to be able to reveal the details… Stitch and Bitch London – my fantastic local knitting group – are running a competition to give away five… Read more

Acid dye experiments

18 February 2010

I’ve been experimenting this week with Procion MX textile dyes. I put a few different yarns in a dye bath and I’m amazed at the colour variation from the same batch! The superwash merino sucked… Read more

On and off the needles in February

9 February 2010

For a knit-blogger, I don’t often blog about what I’m actually knitting. I’ll do my best to address that! I’ve been quite productive so far in 2010, as well as knitting samples for new patterns… Read more

Stash monitoring

4 February 2010

If you’re reading via RSS on a feed reader you’ll need to in order to see some of the charts properly. Warning: This post is one for the geeks. I don’t mean yarn geeks or… Read more

Make it, mend it

21 January 2010

I’ve not previously blogged about my sewing exploits as it’s been a while since I took on a big project, but today one landed in my lap. This morning I noticed that the condition of… Read more

Photographing your work: Studio lighting on location

19 January 2010

I wanted the photography for to be special, so I enlisted the help of a couple of talented friends; model and actor Kathryn and photographer and studio lighting enthusiast Joseph Hughes. We headed for Hampstead… Read more

Andy Holden exhibition at Tate Briatin

14 January 2010

This month knitting takes its rightful place in the gallery, alongside the great masters at the mighty Tate Britain. Demonstrating the versatility of knitting, contemporary British artist Andy Holden has created a giant knitted boulder!… Read more

2009: How did I do?

2 January 2010

Happy 2010! 2009 was an eventful year. I got a new job, I re-launched my old music website, I knitted 36 things, I got two new bikes and rode them lots and of course, knitted… Read more

Knitting with Kelley Deal at ATP

17 December 2009

I’m not ashamed to admit that when I heard Kelley Deal of The Breeders was leading a knitting session at All Tomorrow’s Parties I was more excited about that than I was about any of… Read more

Gift knitting ideas

29 November 2009

It’s that time of year when even the most selfish of selfish knitters think about wrapping others in woolly goodness. It was what inspired me to pick up the sticks in the first place –… Read more

Google Wave knitting

18 November 2009

In the interests of subverting new technology for the good of knitting, fellow knit blogger Mooncalf has set up a knit-a-long on Google Wave for Ysolda’s Damson pattern. Read more