Stephanie Butland

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Tag: knitting

Variously:

1. I am back in Kurdistan, for two weeks this time. It’s pretty much as I remember it: the people are welcoming, the city sprawls and grows almost as you watch, and the work is exciting. The main differences from my last trip here (apart from knowing the lie of the land) are that I [...]

Agnes and almost

Shortly before Christmas, shamelessly egged on my Twitter, I cast on a sweater. It’s by one of my favourite designers, Ruth, aka rock+purl.

It’s not a quick knit. The back was quick, the front was sloooow. Partly because of all of the cables, partly because when a cable goes the wrong way (which can only happen, [...]

Cancer Free Friday: more reasons for knitting

So, I was thinking of what I could add to the 2010 list from yesterday. Here goes.

10. Knitting helps me to think.

This is my current Thinking Sock, which lives in the studio, and shows you what 20,000 words of a novel looks like. Whenever I get to wondering what’s going to happen next, I have [...]