To get round the problem of not being able to work off my fug through exercise, Tom came up with the ingenious solution of a turbo trainer and bicycle. Obviously, I am unable to ride a bike ‘normally’ at the … Continue reading →
As I’m trying to record my experience of recovery honestly, it is worth pointing out that things aren’t great for me at the moment. Someone mentioned the other day that I appeared to be “moving on” from the stroke — … Continue reading →
Continuing the colour-related theme, here is a tank I made quite a while ago, as a sort of exercise in shading. At Woolfest last year, I bought four colours of some lovely Artisan Threads BFL. One was a soft rose, … Continue reading →
I’m playing with a number of colourwork ideas at the moment. I always find it interesting to see the sometimes unpredictable ways that colours behave in a swatch – shades in the skein, that you might think would contrast sharply, … Continue reading →
Hill four of the seven is Braid Hill, or in local parlance, The Braids. Rising from a wooded valley floor to an undulating hillside a couple of miles south of Edinburgh, The Braids are part managed parkland, part urban corridor. … Continue reading →
(recognise that darned heel, Mandy?) Some of you may be interested to know that the above appears in this month’s issue of The Knitter magazine. It is the first piece for publication that I’ve produced since the stroke, and because … Continue reading →
Sod’s law, and all that . . . I got up on Sunday, packed my bags for Stirling, then started to feel a bit peculiar. This ‘feeling peculiar’ rapidly escalated into the unmistakable signs of a migraine. (I had been … Continue reading →
Time for the third of the seven hills. Blackford sits to the South of Edinburgh and though the hill is not at all steep, the terrain is rough in places. On Calton or Castle Hill, one is definitely walking in … Continue reading →
I have been playing around with ideas about mending and darning for a forthcoming article, and have been turning up some interesting tangential things in various digital collections. Pictured above are “Chicago’s top models for 1922″ who have been co-opted … Continue reading →
Warning! Lengthy post, probably only of interest to knitters! One day in March, when I was still in residential rehab, I returned to my bed from a hard morning’s physio to find two packages. Both were promisingly squishy and clearly … Continue reading →