Next stop, procrastination station.

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve bought a few more knitting magazines than usual. Strange isn’t it, how the more work I have to do on my dissertation the more knitting related paraphernalia I buy..?
D bought me the March issue of ‘Simply Knitting’ a week ago, and despite some of the projects not really [...]

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Somewhat disappointingly:

You are plastic.
Futuristic, milky, and silky, you are willing to go where no crafter has gone before. You can do just about anything, with strength agility, and pretty colors to boot! While you are good at slipping and sliding out of sticky situations, remember to stay where and when you are needed. Don’t overdo it [...]

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Always the last to know.

Looks like I just caught the tail end of this sale.
As if I don’t already have enough yarn to try and squish into my suitcase for KL!
I wonder how long my order will take to get here (lots of alpaca, some cotton, bamboo circulars and even rosewood needles!).

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In lieu of decent knitting content

Colin McCahon’s ‘Northland Panels’ 1959:

I just finished writing a wee bit about the text in this work this morning and was reflecting on how much I like it (the work that is). McCahon is the artist I’m writing about in my dissertation – a New Zealand modernist, born 1919, died 1987 (you can find out [...]

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Brown paper packages tied up with string

Yesterday I received a package in the mail. It was from my Mum in NZ and contained the obligatory Whittakers chocolate bar, some almond milk pistachio body butter, a flax woven bag and this book:

As you can see, it’s a vegetarian cookbook and, somewhat surprisingly, I love it. ‘Surprisingly’ because generally I’m not that [...]

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Hooray for heifers.

This morning my first knitted cow took shape. Almost finished, just need to add a few more markings.

Helping with my dissertation (who said cows weren’t intelligent!):

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Farmyard antics

I have cast on for ‘Simply Knitting’ magazine’s cow pattern. Because the best thing to do when you miss deadlines and have a whole lot of writing to get done, is to start making knitted farmyard animals.

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Alpaca FIESTA!

This weekend D and I, along with a couple of the Mt Lawley Stitch & Bitch girls, went to the Alpaca Fiesta at Whiteman Park. Not sure about the others, but I was primarily interested in scoping out the yarn and checking out the cute alpacas. There was a lot of other stuff going on; [...]

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going miniature

Or at least much smaller than I’ve ever gone before.
I bought this yarn from the Knittery a while ago. It’s hand painted merino cashmere 4 ply sock yarn, in their ‘moonlight’ colourway.

A bit bored with my current monotone projects, I really wanted to see what this yarn would knit up like, but didn’t [...]

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current knitterly happenings

Okay, so there hasn’t really been that much knitting going down here at pen & purl what with all my panicky dissertation writing. But, I have been doing some. Just to take the edge off.
I have returned to the Jo Sharp Opal Sweater and cast on for the second sleeve:

Still have the front, collar [...]

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