Adventure

Last night, I went on an adventure. My original plan for this evening involved mainly programming and Doctor Who, preferably in the reverse order. Perhaps with a bit of laundry in order to actually have something to wear over the weekend. This plan changed rather drastically when an idiot (read: boyfriend) phoned me to inform me of his latest adventure in clumsy-land. This involved a kitchen axe/hatchet, his feet and a rather large amount of blood.

Cue flailing and panic and general worriedness. Of course, he doesn't live around the corner. Noooo, Mr Hermit has to live in a little town in the middle of nowhere with little public transport after dinnertime. For a brief idea of the travel conditions, imagine this kind of foggy weather, in a poorly lit area and add wind, freezing temperatures and drizzle.

When you're done imagining that, add 12.5 miles of cycling and you have the full picture.

I tend to avoid cycling alone at night like the plague, even more so if the path leads straight through the woods for miles on end (okay, maybe just 1 or 2), but these were exceptional circumstances. Thus, I changed into something suitably warm and took off. The first few miles were okay, but as I slowly left the more inhabited areas, the fog started closing in and everything started to look really quite different from usual. Add to that the fact that I hadn't actually ever cycled all the way there by myself... let us just say I was less than happy (and convinced I was lost at least once).

But... when I arrived, I was quite proud (and freezing, but mostly proud) and found Mr Hermit drinking a beer and lounging on his bed. I confiscated the beer and, satisfied he hadn't bled to death yet, typed up my adventure.

Scarf 1

Recently I was faced with the dilemma of giving something to a close family member of a certain age. Plants/flowers are cliché (besides, other people would already do that), modern things would be too... modern. That means one decision was easy: I would make something myself.

Dilemma 2: time.

Thankfully, a solution came to me rather quickly: a scarf. Even if they wouldn't wear it, it was still the thought that counted. I still had some rather thick wool in stock (for needle size 8mm) so I got right on it.

It turned out rather nice so I thought I'd share the pattern.

Finished scarf. Yes, I am incapable of making sharp pictures.... I mean no,

the blur was purely intentional to focus attention on the... uhm... things.

Pattern:

Cast on 20 stitches.

5 rows of knit stitches

8 rows alternating between knit and purl stitches (producing a flat bit that curls up when left alone).

After that do four knit stitches and 16 purl stitches (a row on the back of the scarf, it should mostly align with the rows before) and the reverse on the next row.

Then shift your 4 purl stitches by two every second row. After a few rows you'll arrive at this:

8 knit, 4 perl, 8 knit. 

On the next row, start with 4 knit stitches again, making 4 knit, 6 purl, 4 knit, 6 purl and carry on, now shifting both blocks by 2 every second row.

Repeat this pattern until reaching a suitable length at which point you want to run the pattern off the scarf so to speak (so don't start a new one when the previous is halfway) and finish with 1 row knit, one row purl for 8 rows, followed by 5 rows of knit stitches.

This is the first time I've tried to describe a pattern (having never read one in my life), so I apologise if my google skills failed me on finding the correct terms. If the pattern is illegible, I hope that the picture is still some sort of guide.

If anyone ever decides to follow it, I'd be delighted to see the results! :)

Next project: http://wittylittleknitter.com/

Hello there

Quick introductory post. I made this blog to serve as a useful catalogue of awesome stuff for myself and hopefully share something from myself every now and then too that others might enjoy.

Those of you who know me will be aware I always have 2305982157 plans to improve myself, but it's always darned difficult to actually pull through with it. Thankfully, there are little victories every now and then, which I hopefully will share here as well.


One of those little victories from over the last year has been learning to bake my own bread. For a while, I baked all my bread myself, but then I became lazy. Hoping to pick that up again though now I've tried out a bunch more recipes and am slowly getting an idea of how the whole thing works. 

(Nommy huge wholemeal bread)