Cardigan with Cabled Points – the left front.

My newest issue of Simply Knitting magazine has arrived!
The free gift this month is a pattern counting device, which is perfectly timed, as I keep losing track of my cables.
I spent much of yesterday afternoon knitting, and swearing. I don’t know what it is about this particular cardigan, but swearing seems to have accompanied its [...]

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50 Years of Everyday Fashion

This weekend we were idly looking at the magazines in the local shop, when Paul said, “I can’t believe you haven’t picked up this!”
“This” turned out to be a magazine by Yours (the best-selling lifestyle magazine for the fifty-plus woman, apparently), called, “50 Years of Everyday Fashion: How the Women of Britain Created Glamour and [...]

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Happy Day After Valentine’s Day!

After an unprecedented amount of secrecy from my former boyfriend…
…he is now no longer my boyfriend, but my fiancé!
I have a pretty, sparkly ring, and at some point in the future I will need to think about making myself a wedding dress.
Oh my goodness though… so many styles… so much beautiful fabric… (so many shoes…) [...]

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