I managed to get those colourful socks finished after all, in time for this week's blog post. Just. I used a ball of the Regia self-striping sock yarn designed by the Norwegian knitters Arne and Carlos – it's called Regia Pairfect. The idea is that one ball makes two identically patterned socks. You'll see by…

I think I mentioned a few posts back that i was planning on making some baby quilts using up some of the (very many) fabric pieces collected over the last few years. So I thought I'd share the first finished quilt, pieced together from mostly linen and cotton fabrics in shades of green, grey, brown…

Spring's in full swing here in Wellington, which means, rather delightfully, some wild winds and bright warm days mixed in with Antarctic southerlies. So there's still plenty of need for handknits!  I finished a hot water bottle cover a couple of weeks ago – it's made using the ''Haworth'' pattern (free on Ravelry here) and…