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Eucalyptus bark dyepots—the outcome
Well, the outcomes are in– E Scoparia bark on the left and E Poyanthemos bark on the right. As I was rinsing my pots a sudden movement caught my eye. All those cuttings and seedlings and little trees...
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Drawstring project bags
These are the bags that really started the party. Fully lined drawstring project bags. Recycled suit linen with E Scoparia print; linen with an Australian designed print; cotton printed with prunus...
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Of shawls and string and celebration
The colour affection shawl I knit a while back finally found the perfect home as a birthday present for a dear friend–here she is in her gloriousness, modelling it. With the Gleaners in the...
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The tale of a little jumper
Once upon a time, there was a woman with a feverish imagination and far too much yarn. Her imagination had only been further stoked by the Knitsonik Stranded Colourwork Sourcebook–ordered after...
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Socks!
These socks were on the needles a long while: begun in March and finished in May. But–they are finished and turn out to be a great fit. The pattern is trusty old Jaywalker by Grumperina. It isn’t a...
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A patch of potato sacks
I scored more potato sacks from the organic food co-op we belong to. It has been running for many years, mostly because of the hard work of a few trusty and amazing people–and one of my friends in...
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For the love of chickens. And wool. And eucalypts.
In the latest issue of Knitty, there is a stranded colourwork hat featuring a Rhode Island Red chicken design by Pam Sluter. I don’t know Pam, but clearly we share a love of chickens, wool and...
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Eco-printed scarves
I was rifling through some of the wool and silk items that I packed away protectively during summer, (when clothes m*ths are breeding) and realised I still have three scarf blanks that were given to me...
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Whimsically cabled socks
Socks take a little while to knit. Maybe 20 hours or more of knitting for a pair in 4 ply (fingering). To be honest, I’m not sure. Needless to say, I don’t sit down and time myself knitting them. I...
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More hats…
I made a Turn a Square. It travelled all kinds of places and some of it was knit in Sydney. Here we are waiting for someone else’s lunch to be ready. And here we are with muesli and yoghurt. Who …...
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Stranded colourwork–just as cute as ever
At last! I have finished a larger version of the Rhode Island Red hat. It took some doing. I cast on at least three times. I was clearly having some problems with sizing, and thinking straight....
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Jaywalkers in osage orange and indigo
First, there was some undyed wool and silk yarn. Then, there was osage orange sawdust. The colour was so sunny and lovely I considered leaving it at that. But there was an indigo plan. The fructose...
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Laptop sleeve
It all began with a whirlwind surprise visit from my daughter. She was not especially interested in going out or doing anything special. The special was spending time together, and I shared her...
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Small sewing achievements
I had a triumph with the rolled hem foot for my sewing machine recently. (I celebrate all victories great and small). I weakened on my pledge not to buy more fabric when I saw William Morris lawn,...
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Treppenviertel
It all began some time ago with wool/silk yarn and some madder dyeing. There was madder root of antiquity. I soaked it overnight first. And tried to follow Jenny Dean’s wisdom. It all looked good to...
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Gift slippers
There is no end to the slipper making. I just have to embrace my fate! My brother-out-law let me know he wouldn’t mind another pair a while back, and perhaps he rigged the family Kris Kringle,...
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Socks: Just in time for summer!
What with travel time and a conference to knit in, I’ve finished another pair of socks for a dear friend with BIG feet. Just in time for summer! This is some Bendigo sock yarn I had at the back of …...
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Holiday sock knitting
There came a point in our Late December-early January holiday travels when I turned to my beloved and admitted that I might run out of sock yarn. Is this the time for a confession? I pre-wrote posts...
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Cotton socks
My mother can’t do wool socks. It took her a while to explain this to me. Partly because the first pair I knit her were made from crochet cotton (because I was ignorant and it was cheap and pretty)....
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Transformation: Pants to bags
Once upon a time, (well, it was just before the year 2000 began at a folk festival, actually), I bought this pair of Thai fishing pants. I had never seen a garment like them before, and I had never...
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