Jean's Knitting

Just as you said, Helen : the Royal Mail system for translating an on-line customs-fee payment into action on a specific package lying on a ...

A less good day, yesterday. But the sky didn’t fall, and at my age I think that has to be counted as a plus. I got back from the supermarket...

A good day, yesterday: we have been having postal strikes, are having another one today. Yesterday, the system coughed up an armload of accu...

Mostly Comments, today Stash Haus, I don’t at a glance see how to search the IWOOT website by personality, just by price. There are enough...

Angel, be careful of that cough. Three bits of knitterly news today – four, if you count Nancy Marchant’s sensational brioche stitch website...

Don’t miss the 14-page special report on Sino-American relations in the current issue of the Economist. I lay aside the Christmas Project to...

Susan, that is the most exciting news I have heard for a long time – that someone else besides you is following the progress of my ASJ in or...

Mary Lou, I don’t have any pictures of grandchildren in their double-breasted BSJ’s, but here is a scan of the tattered and torn pictures f...

I have now knit half of the increase-mitre of the ASJ, in a sense. In the sense that half of the stitches are back on the needle, and theref...

Back again, after a happy weekend away (and a brief recovery period here). Much to say, both knitting-wise and horticulture-wise. Start with...

I finished the inward mitre, updated the Progress Bar , and have started increasing outwards. It is with great reluctance that I resist the ...

A good day on the ASJ front. The next row will be the final decrease for the first mitre: a milestone which can be marked by a slight edging...

Angel, it would seem to me more than appropriate if a real angel with feathered wings should appear and make you some chicken soup – ordinar...

I had a grand time yesterday with Lynn Barr and Cocoon and my Christmas project. Cocoon is lovely stuff – it ought to be, at that price – me...

I was heartened and cheered by your comment, Angel. I used to have multiple WIPs all over the place. I think, as much as anything, I was set...

Don’t let anyone ever tell you that those guys down at Google aren’t awesome. Just now, I typed “progress bar for blog” into a Google search...

Mostly technical I think the single most important thing I was ever told about knitting, was said to me by Margaret Stove herself, and is: t...

Mel, I was briefly worried by your swine-flu comment yesterday. But then I happened to stumble across this – news from Mexico (and who shou...

Vivienne , I certainly hope you get your baby before you get swine flu. You’ll still qualify for the vaccine as a new mother, won’t you? I h...

Little to report. I’ve chosen “Andersonville” as the first colour in my ASJ, after the charcoal non-border. It’s slow work, but I’m enjoying...