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GNOMEWATCH 3 Aug 2013 | 04:55 am
Hello, and welcome to GNOMEWATCH. Here at GNOMEWATCH we are dedicated to ensuring YOUR SAFETY in the presence of - while not malign, still really nosy and rather irritating - GNOMES. Gnomes are...
New SJK Mailing List 1 Aug 2013 | 10:44 pm
Hey Nice People, I’ve got a shiny new mailing list! Please join if you’d like to get news and updates on new pattern releases, SNEAKY PREVIEWS from my forthcoming book (that WILL be out before the ye...
Police Box Mittens 28 May 2013 | 07:11 pm
As was hinted at in my last post the second of my Doctor Who-inspired mitten patterns has just been released. They do concern that most iconic of blue boxes - the Doctor's indispensable mode of trans...
The Accidental Enthusiast 17 May 2013 | 02:47 am
It's difficult to keep track of time when it's so wibbly wobbly-like, but as such things are conventionally reckoned I am a relative newcomer to the grand British tradition of Doctor Who. That said, t...
Rock Lobster Mittens 3 May 2013 | 10:11 pm
Since I've been working on my knitting book-in-progress I've been effectively forced to keep any and all new projects secret. As such, the SJK patterns haven't been flying as fast or as frequently as ...
Travelling back 24 Apr 2013 | 08:33 pm
I was in Toronto this past weekend to see Revealing the Early Renaissance at the AGO.* If you have been around here for a while you'll know that there's nothing I like better than a good hotel - "good...
Spicy Birds 28 Feb 2013 | 05:05 am
If you'd have asked me this morning, I'd have told you that laziness is the Mother of Invention. As it turns out, I was wrong. It is, in fact, soup. At least it is in this case - soup in general and ...
Stone Lion Hunt 12 Aug 2012 | 04:35 am
I love lions in general and stone lions in particular - it's the unique combination of power, stateliness and feline laziness that does it for me. I can't walk past one without voicing him (yes,) with...
On the Bone 10 Aug 2012 | 11:52 pm
Yarn on the bone - it's a motif that's been haunting me of late. Perhaps because I was naughty and snapped a picture of Olek's Body and Movement while in Chicago? And just look what turned up in the ...
In Case You Missed it 10 Aug 2012 | 03:51 am
This might be news to some of you, or perhaps not - but I am currently in the process of writing a book of patterns that will see the light of day in early 2013. It will be published in both print and...
