Author: beth

Films I love to knit to

| beth

We all have those films we revisit again and again. Films we know all of the words to, ruin for new watchers with the immortal lines ‘this is a really good bit’… you know the ones.

Well, these happen to be perfect films to knit to, because we all know that once you get absorbed in a good knitting project, you lift your head up to the TV and half the film’s gone by. (Mr Shortrounds must get so fed up of me constantly asking him ‘what just happened?’)

So I wanted to share with you my list of ‘watch again and again’ films that I never get bored of and love to knit to!

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

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Rowan Fine Silk

| beth

Before I write any more, can we just take a moment to appreciate this perfect cobalt blue shade?! When I unwrapped this little beauty I took a full minute turning the ball of Rowan Fine Silk over and over in my hands just watching it change colour with the light. Like most silks this new Rowan yarn has a delicate sheen, but is combined with wool to give it a greater tensile strength than most silks I’ve worked with previously. Laughing Hens very kindly sent me a ball of this lovely yarn in its stunning ‘Peacock’ colourway to get creative with!

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Father’s weekend…

| beth

Father’s Day is always a bit of an anticlimax in our family, because today is Papa Shortrounds’ birthday! It usually falls a couple of days either side of the national celebration. But with it falling nice and tidily on a Saturday this year, he can take the whole weekend to kick back, relax and indulge guilt-free, with no repercussions.

Or…

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