tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38576032011-04-22T04:26:47.974+01:00Beverly's BlogDetails of my fibre arts - knitting and freeform crochetBeverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-1148717003275152592006-05-27T08:39:00.000+01:002006-05-27T09:03:23.286+01:00I'm still not posting regularly enough but I have been so, so busy these last few weeks. I have taken on a project at work which my brain told me to turn down becaue it was too big but when you are self employed it is so difficult to actually say no and while my brain was shouting NO NO NO my mouth was in fact saying Yes, of course I can transcribe 310 interviews for you, no problem. Anyway it Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-1147332099349933852006-05-11T07:52:00.000+01:002006-05-11T08:21:39.360+01:00Where did those six month go?I can't believe I haven't posted anything for six months - I could use the excuse of being busy at work (and I have been) but it just isn't acceptable. Anyway, I am now signed up to SP8 and the One Skein Exchange so I have to keep things up to date. So here is my new and updated SP8 Questionnaire:1. What is/are your favorite yarn/s to knit with? Anything except Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-1133078655443239412005-11-27T07:39:00.000Z2005-11-27T08:04:15.453ZI've just returned from a lovely long weekend in New York that was my 18th birthday present for my daughter. We had a fantastic time mainly shopping and eating and walking plus a visit to Broadway to see Sweet Charity (fantastic) and an incredible night time view of the city from the top of the Rockerfeller Centre (newly opened to the public). I managed to visit two wonderful yarn stores - Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-1130859205763907872005-11-01T15:27:00.000Z2005-11-01T15:33:25.776ZI've caught the Curly Whirly bug. This is the latest craze from the UK Handknitters Yahoo group and started innocently enough with some knitters producing curly whirly scarves - knitted and crocheted. I have a WIP from Scarf Style which is a Ruffle Scarf using short rows and I was very pleased with the way it was going but got fed up with how long it took to grew. Then I saw that the new Curly Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-1129388840138690892005-10-15T15:37:00.000+01:002005-10-15T16:27:05.516+01:00I was at Ally Pally yesterday and am still recovering. It was an absolutely amazing day and it went so quickly. Thanks to wonderful public transport (why do people only criticise it? Well I am here to praise it) I was there, door to door in one hour and forty minutes which is not bad going as it is the totally opposite end of London to where I live.I have been there for four years now but this Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-1128420577082619422005-10-04T09:55:00.000+01:002005-10-04T11:09:37.086+01:00I had a strange weekend. On Friday I was looking for something in my wardrobe when a camping gas stove that Tom had put away on the top shelf of the wardrobe last week decided to fall out and hit me on the head. I saw the proverbial stars and got a nasty lump but thought I was going to be okay. However an hour or so later I felt really sleepy and went to bed - fortunately Tasha was home from Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-1127982001338003332005-09-29T09:08:00.000+01:002005-09-29T09:20:01.343+01:00The postman brought me a parcel from Las Vegas and I wondered what on earth it could be. Inside was a beautiful box tied with gold ribbon. Inside the box I peeled back the layers on blue and green tissue paper and found some ginger sweeties, some lavender bags and the most beautiful multi-directional scarf knitted in wonderful blues and greens. It was from my scarf exchange pal and with it Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-1127369152909480372005-09-22T07:05:00.000+01:002005-09-22T07:05:52.913+01:00Colinette Shrug from Interweave Knits Fall 05 Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-1127369077184473342005-09-22T07:04:00.000+01:002005-09-22T07:04:37.190+01:00Louisa Harding Sari Ribbon Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-1127368668630879762005-09-22T06:41:00.000+01:002005-09-22T06:57:48.636+01:00I have been going a little mad with buying things since I got back from holiday. On a trip to John Lewis I bought the Debbie Bliss yarn for the astrakhan jacket as well as the Rowan Luxe plus Sirdar Fizz for the scarf exchange scarf (nearly finished now) as well as the latest Rowan magazine - not much I liked there on first browsing but each time I look again I find something else I want to makeBeverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-1127214638326820832005-09-20T12:10:00.000+01:002005-09-20T12:10:38.330+01:00Debbie Bliss Astrakhan Jacket from Vogue Fall 05 Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-1127212551333046792005-09-20T11:01:00.000+01:002005-09-20T11:35:51.340+01:00I hang my head in shame - nearly two months since my last post here is unforgivable. A lot has happened since 22nd July. We had an amazing time in Cuba - we had a week touring which was incredible, then a week at a beach resort relaxing and drinking mojitos and a variety of different cocktails from morning till night and then an extra five days that we didn't expect to have as Cubana Airlines Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-1122004174780223922005-07-22T04:31:00.000+01:002005-07-22T04:49:34.793+01:00I can't believe I haven't posted on here since mid June and now it is mid July (and my birthday today! Happy Birthday to me.) I haven't knitted very much although I continue adding to the stash mainly thanks to Ebay. I'm not able to post any pictures at the moment because the digital camera has finally died - I should have asked for a new one as a birthday present, too late now. I'm still Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-1119702209711005102005-06-25T13:15:00.000+01:002005-06-25T13:23:29.716+01:00THANK YOU SECRET PAL 5My first Secret Pal parcel arrived today and it was so exciting. I get a lot of work through the post and five parcel arrived this morning and I assumed they were all work related so when I opened one up and it was nicely tied with ribbon and had a lovely smell of vanilla I realised this wasn't work! Inside was some Patons Pebbles yarn which I have not seen before - it is Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-1118737595304953442005-06-14T09:19:00.000+01:002005-06-14T09:26:35.310+01:00My gorgeous Erica Weiner yarn arrived from America about three days after paying for it on Ebay - better service than from a lot of UK sellers! It is absolutely wonderful but would be very easy to put something like that together especially with my huge stash so that might be my next project - I will buy some braid and ribbon from Ebay to add to the yarns and make an electic colour co-ordinatedBeverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-1118113793661118252005-06-07T04:09:00.000+01:002005-06-07T04:09:53.666+01:00 Erica Weiner Yarn Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-1118113536494948332005-06-07T03:49:00.000+01:002005-06-07T04:05:36.500+01:00A strange knitting coincidence happened today. I was doing a bit of yarn surfing on the internet (looking for exciting things to spoil my Secret Pal with) when I found an American site called Plain Mabel www.plainmabel.com which has some gorgeous gifts and a wonderful crafts section including some amazing looking textural yarn kits from a designer called Erica Weiner - the description is as Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-1117160009741355382005-05-27T02:31:00.000+01:002005-05-27T03:13:29.750+01:00Secret Pal 5 Questionnaire:1. Are you a yarn snob (do you prefer higher quality and/or natural fibers)? Do you avoid Red Heart and Lion Brand? Or is it all the same to you? Yes I do tend to be a bit of a yarn snob - I certainly tend to go for higher end unusual yarns, often well discontinued European yarns that I get on Ebay and occasionally find in charity shops, also natural fibres but apart Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-1116399687703374462005-05-18T07:51:00.000+01:002005-05-18T08:01:27.706+01:00Quite a lot has been going on since the last entry at the beginning of May. I have met up with Ruth from the Freeform Crocheters yahoo group which was wonderful - we had a lovely afternoon and she introduced me to a new wool shop at Squires Garden Centre at Upper Halliford - they do the Texere experimental packs which means I no longer have to get them mail order. I have almost finished my Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-1115032423688810102005-05-02T12:03:00.000+01:002005-05-02T12:13:43.690+01:00Still not posting regularly enough.Since I was last here I have had some gorgeous yarn arrive from Fuzzy Galore in USA - some gorgeous Crystal Palace yarns including Big Net which I'm going to make into a Big Net and Splash scarf (pattern here http://www.straw.com/cpy/patterns/bignet_splash_scarf.html)I have been freeform crocheting with a magic ball made from some Texere sample packs and Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-1113197076284433932005-04-11T06:14:00.000+01:002005-04-11T06:24:36.286+01:00I had intended to post at least once a week but am not doing so well - I blame far too much work. On Friday we all went to Amsterdam for the weekend and got back late last night. We had a fantastic time - the weather could have been better, it rained a lot, but it didn't stop us doing anything really and we had come prepared. We stayed a wonderful hotel called Lloyds Hotel (www.lloydhotel.nl) Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-1111728135795859822005-03-25T05:14:00.000Z2005-03-25T05:22:15.796ZI said I wasn't going to get any more yarn as I have far too many wip's and planned projects to do already but I went into Kingston yesterday just to run into Borders and run out again and only get Interweave Knits. However I looked at their craft book selection and also took home Stitch and Bitch Nation and then just happened to pop into John Lewis to see if they had anything exciting and came Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-1111659686720491282005-03-24T10:21:00.000Z2005-03-24T10:21:26.720ZColinette Giotto in Castanza Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-1111659354512952312005-03-24T10:13:00.000Z2005-03-24T10:23:15.446ZThe postman has just arrived and has brought me my Denise Interchangeable Needles - thank you to Gill at Woolly Workshop for such fantastic service, I only ordered them yesterday lunch time. In the same post was my order from Colinette for a variety of different yarns all in the Castagna colourway. I intend to join the yarns together to make an experimental mixture and see what happens when I Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-1111616032281789722005-03-23T22:13:00.000Z2005-03-23T22:13:52.280Z Feza Cami Capelet from Urban Tribal Wear www.urbantribalwear.com Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857603.post-829592622002-10-14T12:12:00.000+01:002005-03-23T22:29:56.736ZWednesday 23rd March 2005This is day one of Beverly's Blog. Today I ordered some Denise Interchangeable Needles from Wooly Workshop and plan to start the Feza Cami Capelet (in a lovely caramel colour) from Urban Tribal Wear (www.urbantribalwear.com) and will post what it should look like here when I find out how to upload photos....Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115880582941314567noreply@blogger.com