I sometimes have issues with tension when I embark on a knitting or crochet project. I don’t mean nervous tension I mean the tension of the stitches. I usually do a tension square but with this particular pattern it stated the tension over so many pattern repeats so I thought I would just use the…
Month: August 2017
This is a frame up.
My younger daughter asked me if I would do some framing for her and I was delighted to be able to do so now that I have moulding. She had given me some prints that she had and I had one saying that I wanted to frame so thought I would do them all together. …
Winter warmers
It is the last month of winter and have just finished knitting some socks. The previous socks I have made have usually been done in 4 ply wool apart from a pair of bedsocks knitted in much thicker wool. This time I have used double knitting wool/ 8 ply wool. My daughter wanted some colourful…
Tuesday Travels. . . .National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
“Look into the eyes of over 400 people who’ve shaped the nation at the National Portrait Gallery, on the shores of Canberra’s Lake Burley Griffin.” On a recent visit to Canberra that is exactly what we did. There was a particular part of the gallery devoted to an exhibition of Women in Focus. This Gallery…