Wow, it’s been over a month since my last post but it feels like days. When I finished the Festival Fun Blanket I suffered from creative fatigue for a while. Finishing a big project is like finishing a good book, sometimes you need a little time to reflect and recharge before you start something new…
Wow this blanket has been a pain labour of love. The cat woke me up at a ridiculously early hour this morning for her breakfast. Anyone who knows me knows I don’t do mornings very well but as I crawled back into bed I realised that for the first time in a week it wasn’t raining…
The Festival Fun blanket is almost finished. I have been working hard on the borders, lots of borders to keep all those different sections under control. I’m finishing with a cute bobble border but it’s taking FOR-EVER. To be fair to the cute bobble border I have been distracted lately by a visit to Weston-Super-Mare…
This is a very delayed post for which I apologise. I returned home to a flurry of washing/drying because Katie was going away again the next day with a friend and her parents. The day Katie left I decided (no idea why) to have a massive clear out in my bedroom and then, of course,…
I couldn’t face making the journey home in one day so Katie and I are on a little road trip. We broke the journey roughly into three and chose Stoke-on-Trent as our first port of call. Of course while we where there we had to have Staffordshire oakcakes – we had them with Staffordshire sausage…
Just to be clear I’m talking capers as in the Famous Five having a spiffing time rather than little green pearls of yummyness that you have with fish. On Friday we took the local train and rattled off to Whitehaven 90 minutes up the coast from Barrow. They sky was moody grey but the scenery…
We woke up this morning to gorgeous sunshine and set off along the coast road to Ulverston. I was dragging a reluctant Katie to an historic bobbin mill. I’m old enough to remember wooden cotton reels like these and I knew I would find it interesting to see where they were made. I just…
Katie and I have decamped from Cornwall to Cumbria for a couple of weeks. My lovely partner Jason lives and works in Barrow-in-Furness which is at the south western tip of the gorgeous Lake District so we’re lucky to have a base here. The journey up was, as usual, horrendous. Traffic jam after traffic jam…
You know everyone has times when things really don’t go to plan? Well I’m having one of those times but I won’t let it defeat me. As I mentioned in a previous post I was going to leave the Oh So Sample! blanket for a while and do some sewing. Now I know I’m in…
Oooh it’s starting to have the feel of a blanket now, heavy and snuggly. I’ve sewn squares 16-20 on and it’s getting too big for close up pictures and it’s big enough to attract the attention of the dogs who love blankets! Here is Pheobe “helping” me take a picture. And again… And again… Here…
Over the weekend I attached the third row to the blanket and I’m really liking the effect. I do love the textural quality of some of the squares, I think popcorn is my new favourite stitch. I’ve completed another row and am thinking I will need 8 or possibly 9 rows to make it a…
If you follow me on Instagram you will have seen that I went to the lovely Liskeard Show on Saturday. It’s a tiny version of the many County and agricultural shows around the country and it’s really worth a visit if you’re in the area. You could travel around the show on a horse drawn open…
I’m finding it really easy to make squares for this blanket. During the day I’m doing really physical work re-designing my front garden so in the evenings, after a much needed shower and hair wash, I’m happy to slump on the sofa with the dogs, watch something easy going on TV and make a up…
In between the deadline stress, fashion show, my Oh So Sample! blanket, learning to use my knit machine and of course cooking, shopping, housework and general family life, I have been quietly working away on the popcorn rounds for Katie’s Blanket. I’ve worked my way through the Chelsea Flower Show…. … the whole of series…
I really enjoy having a project that I can pick up and put down easily. My Oh So Sample! blanket is one of those projects. I also wanted to work with a different (for me) colour palette, I’m very much a ‘pastels’ or ‘brights’ kind of girl so I went to Busy Fingers one day…
Lisa Robins 