That’s a German weather rule, and it certainly holds true this year. All winter there was hardly a snowflake to be seen around here, and today, four days after the vernal equinox, I wake up to this:
Considering that I am busy finalising a translation which I promised to have at the publisher’s by Friday, I […]
Ever since we found the correct measurements for a Haversack that would be issued to a British Soldier in the late Napoleonic era in Soldiers’ Accoutrements of the British Army 1750-1900, DH has been bugging me to make one.
Actually, Napoleonic soldiers’ haversacks are not too complicated to make. They consist of a large piece that […]
Move on, folks, nothing to see here. Just another pair of socks:
Ann Budd’s “Undulating Rib Socks” from Favorite Socks, finished yesterday. The yarn is Regia 4-ply Cotton Color in col. 5405. I was worried about the color changes obfuscating the pattern, but the socks turned out quite nice, except that the picture doesn’t do them […]
I would so love to have a new skirt for spring, but as I am a size 24 with an ample belly and almost no hip curve, commercial clothes never really fit me. Unfortunately, the same holds true for commercial sewing patterns, for exactly the same reasons. So I decided to take a different approach: […]
I just installed the InLine Posts plugin developed by Aral Balkan, which provides you with an easy mechanism to link your posts to permanent pages you set up in WordPress. Which means: From now on there’s going to be a project page for everything more complex than a pair of socks.
Of course, typing this I […]
Stash forces are advancing on both the knitting and the sewing front - in other words: I’ve been shopping. But I also finished something:
Ann Budd’s Seduction Socks in Regia silk 4-ply, col. 098. So I guess it’s a draw between me and the stash, at least for today.
I’m so proud of myself (am I allowed to say so in public?): I finished Eunny Yang’s Bayerische Socks. Finished, blocked, picture taken, finally done! They’re my second entry for the Sock Knitters Anonymous February Sockdown KAL on Ravelry, and I finished them before the deadline (March 31st), with time to spare. I’d never have […]
We took a friend to the Panzermuseum in Munster yesterday, and on the way back we also went to Brunswick to look at the Napoleonic period items in the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum. Apart from the uniform of the Black Duke which you’d somehow expect to be presented there we also found some other things that will […]