Hello, hello! Do come in. There’s still space on the sofa. Make y’self comfy – I’ve got something fun to show you today that will, I hope, make you smile. grandfather they said would never walk again”. Here’s the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-65459248 . As you would with any scrumbled freeform design, start by working two or three little motifs, then join them together to make a shape that more than covers the hole in your jeans. Sew the finished work into place. Of course you can follow my example and chain-stitch around the area first, but I’m really not sure I’d recommend that. Tonight, I’ve been a-scrumbling with a purpose. A combination of ultra-cheap jeans and hours spent crawling on the floor playing farms with the Toddler Twinnage leads, inevitably and without deviation, to this dismal state of affairs:-

knitting toothpaste, mushrooms, a camp fire, a desert island, ice-cream sundae or a Scottish bagpipe!

much knitting, how much tending of my crochety and infirm husband. Now I'm hard put to look after my crochety and infirm self. Another May day. I sat out on the step again. Saturday foot traffic is different from a weekday, and more abundant. No professional dog=walkers. Again, I inadvertently typed in a Jean-word, omitting one of the browns. It proved very useful, giving me a new consonant both green and

I still have a little bit of sweater cuff to knit. I am what EZ classified as a “blind follower” if ever there was one, and find it slightly unnerving not to know how much cuff I am aiming at. Carry on until it looks about right, and do that much again for the other sleeve. Those four copies of Knitter’s from 2000 which I can’t find translated it all into a simple raglan sweater. Helen -- writing from Kirkmichael -- says she has been talking around in circles with our neighbour all morning, and Most knitted garments belong to the fashion world. So, a knitter will choose (for example) a sweater pattern to suit her lifestyle and to compliment other items in her wardrobe. Thank you for your comments. I think you have established that bread sauce is not commonplace in the USofA. It is essentially bread crumbs soaked until they swell in warm, seasoned milk with a generous addition of butter. In these days of Google, it shouldn’t be hard to find a recipe. Delicious. Alexander and Ketki were here today. She is American, and agrees thatwe don’t have bread sauce and that it is one of the best things about Christmas. She, also, gives a slight edge to cranberry sauce.

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My nephew Theo and his family are coming to celebrate Thanksgiving with his English cousins in London. Theo is organising it all from afar. Family and friends who witnessed this wonder are astonished at the knitter’s skill. She began with needles, yarn and a pattern, then by her own creative efforts, turned them into a lovable little poppet. Everyone wants one! A knitted scarf could never generate such affectionate

Perhaps best of all, with my designs you will never run out of reasons to knit. You can make them as gifts for birthdays, as mascots, for You can knit them and win prizes at the shows and to raise funds for charity. There are so many wonderful ways to make others happy with your kindness and my patterns. Stitch-by-stitch the doll comes to life and when completed there is a marvellous sense of achievement. The knitter has created a sweet little three-dimensional work of soft sculpture, just by following words on paper. Wordle: Another stinker. My two starter words yielded one brown vowel. I found a good word for line three — and it achieved NOTHING. Well, except to eliminate four more consonants and one more position for the vowel. Line four was better, and I got it on line five. Four was the near-universal score, but Rachel soothed my feelings by scoring six.

For lots of reasons! To begin with, creating three-dimensional characters is a fabulous craft in its own right and nothing at all like knitting garments. For Tomorrow will be the first time that Rachel and Ed’s nine grandchildren — seven girls and (recent additions) two boys — will all have been together. Rowan Denim 100% cotton, 103 yd (93m), 1.75 oz (50g), 2 (2,3,3,3) skeins in Nashville (dark indigo) (A); 1 (1,1,1,1) skein in Tennessee (light blue) (B) Wordle: we were scattered about today. Mark scored two, as he not infrequently does. Roger needed five. Most of the British scored four, including me. Theo and Alexander were the threes.