"Listen very carefully, I will say this only once"

A while since my last post, I have been a little preoccupied with some stitches, not in my knitting, but on my face. Not sure what they are made of but they are the sort that have to be taken out by a nurse and they will be gone tomorrow. They will leave a scar but then I have my Woolly Facade now.
The rich germanic accent of the matter of fact Doctor when he told me the BCC (Basal Cell Carcinoma - in case you are wondering) needed to be removed took the edge off the announcement. "We will do it in one day, it will leave a scar, sign here" I had to hold back the chuckles until I got out the door and convinced myself I had not been taken up into an unscreened episode of "Allo allo".

cheers for now

Woolly Facade

First Thoughts

This is me and this is my Woolly Facade.

I have finally given in to the temptation of creating a blog. I hope its going to be fun.

A while ago some spare fabric gave me a great idea for a knitting bag. But I wanted to make a bag that really worked and was not just another bag you could put some knitting in. So I had to do some investigating. The more research I did, the more I saw just fantastic knitting, and a new breed of knitters with a slightly different approach to this age old craft everywhere. Intriguingly knitting is now sometimes about making a statement as much as it is about fashion, leisure or necessity.

All this set me thinking about how a piece of knitting can stir such great memories and how knitting had been a subtle but important factor for generations in our family as in many others. I hope some of these rambles will be about revisiting and recreating old knitting as well as starting new projects and techniques.  I like history and am especially fascinated by how work and industry have affected people in the past so I expect I will blog about that too. It would be great to hear others knitting evoked memories. 



Why "Joined Up Knitting?"

Maybe learning to knit is a bit like learning to write. You learn the alphabet, and you can write some letters,  You get a bit better and you are great at copying and then you get to do "Joined Up Writing."  Before long your handwriting takes on its own unmistakable style, you choose your favorite pens and different colored inks and start putting down your own ideas.

I was taught how to knit when I was quite small - before school I think, but I have only ever taken it up in fits and starts. Maybe knowing too many accomplished knitters I often lost heart or was simply distracted by the next skill I just had to try. Needles and threads were usually to blame, but now I am really trying to go back and start "Joined up Knitting".


So this blog is loosely based around knitting but inevitably it will get joined up with all the other crafty ideas  I can not keep my hands off.


Cheers for now


Woolly Facade