I said I have been working on something behind the scenes and at last I can reveal what it is. Notice anything different about my site? New haircut? No. A shop!
For many years my day job had been teaching at the local university but at the end of last year I decided to throw caution [...]
I do a little lace knitting and I’d read stuff by American knitters which referred to “blocking wires”. When I investigated this further it seemed like a way to ease the pain of blocking with just pins. The wires sold specifically to knitters for blocking seemed quite pricey and I’d read things about people using [...]
When I started spinning I did so on an old Ashford Traditional I had inherited from my grandmother. It is a 1960s model and showing its age. It works fine enough but is clunky and scotch tension only (which on the Ashfords is a fiddly system requiring constant adjustment in my experience).
As I became a [...]
