VARIOUS IMPORTANT THINGS grovelling apology and Staffie sightings
We are sorry to have to admit that there are several mistakes in Best in Show knit your own Cat, or if you are American, just Knit your own Cat. We checked and re-checked the patterns and so did our publishers, but a few have slipped through, spotted by the eagle eyed, Karol and Gill, [...]
NEW YEAR NEWS
Our hot news is that our Best in Show Knit your own Cat, or rather Knit your own Cat, as it’s called in the US, is being published in Feb by Black Dog and Leventhal, the lovely people who published Knit your own Dog, here’s the link
http://www.blackdogandleventhal.com/new-releases-and-coming-soon/299-2/
We will then be following up with Best in [...]
FRIDGEART
Here’s some more lovely abstract artworks found in the back of the fridge
I think that’s marmalade
god knows what this is
This is one of the most lovely, elderflower I think.
And this is bearded cake
Do send us your own fridgeart and lets see if we can turn it into a legitimate artform
another error in Best in Show and/or knit your own dog
This has been spotted by Nancy Little in the Border Collie pattern
P140 RIGHT SIDE OF BODY
P8cr,p4bl,K3cr,inccr.
Should be p
Thank you Nancy for pointing that out.
Nature notes from our guest blogger – A lady gardener
There’s something so magical about spring, it allows you to take liberties that will be frowned on later in the gardening year. So I’m basking in the pleasure of seeing a pack of tiny sharks frolicking about in a sea of Blue Angel Muscari whenever I open the greenhouse door.
You can do elegant soon enough.
In [...]
ERRORS IN BEST IN SHOW knit your own dog
Yes I’m afraid so, however many times we checked the patterns over and we really did many many times, there are one or two errors, so we thought we would come clean and publish them:
PATTERN CORRECTIONS
ALTERATIONS IN RED
Whippet
Page 20 Left Side of Body
Row 14: K16sh, k16sn, k2togsn (33 sts)
Labrador
Page 84 Head
Row 23: K6, (k2tog) 3 [...]
More Nice Sheds
This one is in Cornwall,
Same shed, from a different angle, I can’t account for the unearthly green glow, except to say it’s near Tintagel.
Forlorn Gardens
Is it only me or are all gardens this sad looking at this time of year.
I’m afraid it’s as I thought, I won’t be called upon to fill that vacancy on Gardener’s Question Time in the near future.
Nice Sheds
This is the first of our series of nice sheds. This one is near Combe Hay in Somerset.
Although technically not a shed, the use of twine and tarpaulin make this a contender for our nice sheds category.
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