It is time to start thinking about cold weather. This time the warmth comes from a very special source: the soft undercoat of our dog Ally. I collected it, rather inconsistently, over 16 years. Although Ally has already gone to the dogs’ heaven, she can still give something warm and comforting. Her fur has found…
The knee-high socks are knitted on 3 mm double-pointed needles using Alize Forever crochet thread. That was one big mistake: the thread is slippery and the needles keep falling out. I had to unravel and redo so much and pick up so many dropped stitches. It immediately reminded me that in Soviet times there used…
I still have supplies of homespun wool from the days when my mother kept sheep in the countryside and we used to take the wool to be exchanged for yarn. We dyed it ourselves, using all sorts of methods, including making it multicoloured simply by tying sections of the yarn. What remains now are mostly…
