String Revolution

I have been swatching.
This winter just past, I have been afflicted with that whole “cobbler’s children” thing (adapted to refer to knitters). Except that my children seem to have plenty of hats and gloves – I’m the one who doesn’t.
So I’m going to make myself a hat.

Ha. When I posted about my late-night sock triumph last week, I said I’d write more about them “tomorrow, or possibly the next day”. Well. I should know better than to make rash promises, is all.
Pattern: Spring Forward socks, by Linda Welch, from Knitty (summer 2008).
Yarn: Sock yarn from the Natural Dye Studio, which may [...]

Here are Niall and I, with the baby Oyster, turning up at the Register Office five years ago, on a fine, cold Tuesday afternoon, to let the State know how things stood between us. As I said in my wedding speech at the party the following Saturday, by any sensible definition of the term we’d [...]

Spring is here!
In Ireland, spring officially starts today, the 1st of February, which is the Pagan festival of Imbolc, transmuted in the Christian era into Candlemas, St Bridget’s Day, Lá Fhéile Bríde.
And look! My birch is budding!
But that’s not why I’m slapping this streak of incoherence across your internets. No, friends, for there is a [...]