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Brenda Dayne
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S21E211 211 Grace Notes
Ghost in the Orchard. Four inches from done. I’d stare at the cable chart and the tiny squares would dance. Close my eyes. Open them. Over and over. The hands that made those cables could not…
S21E210 210 Two Bowls
Tears in the kitchen. Three bananas on the counter and a recipe I know by heart but cannot, for the life of me, turn into a sequence of actions. Seven ingredients. Too many decisions. My brain could…
209 Desire Paths
An Eye for an Eye - would the animals we eat, eat us? Impossible Hats. Box Hill Picnic, from Jane Austen’s Emma. Dangerous Questions, where the danger is yours, not your opponent’s. This is what…
S21E208 208 Nighthawk
From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, Nighthawk n. a recurring thought that only strikes you late at night. Mine struck every night for eight weeks.Zopiclone is a sledgehammer. Daridorexant is a…
S21E207 207 Too Much World
Trimethoprim for a UTI. Seven days. By day three, everything was hysterically funny. By day five, I could hear things that weren’t there. By week two, I couldn’t track yarn overs in garter stitch.…
S20E206 206 Quality
Zabava Shorties disasters. The signs were there. Sometimes, you need to break up with a sock pattern. “It’s not you, it’s me. I don’t like you anymore.” Meanwhile, the Peppermint Pocket Skirt…
205 Big love and secret pajamas
It's been a week of finishes and new beginnings. Off the needles, I've completed a Malabrigo hat and love the color pooling. You don’t hear me say that very often.I've finally finished my Amande…
S20E204 204 Cart before the workhorse
Finishing socks, saving the yarn, new projects from old, planning the perfect colourwork sweater, plus a bit of theoretical physics to prove what knitters already know: knitting is magic.Links and…
203 Looking in
We travel from Iron Age fire-pits to mid-century homemaking manuals, consider the joys of stash organisation, and muse on the performative aspects of home decorating. There’s a deep dive into the…
202 A gentle pastime
Replenishing the sock drawer with Priory Socks (project page).My Secret Circles, below.Porthos (project page), below.I moved my decreases to the back of the heel, and the result is similar to Basic…
Cast On Classic: A Snow Day
In which an American Thanksgiving is celebrated in the UK, albeit a day late and a pumpkin pie short.One of the first pieces of writing I recorded for Cast On in 2005, this has become one of my most…
201 Knitting through sorrow
It’s autumn. Time for finishing projects, knitting socks and celebrating the impending winter by taking the sweaters out of storage. This one is all knitting, and I make no apologies.I'm channelling…
200 Work as written
Off the needles and on; Tour de Fleece wrap up; notes from the production line; a new bag; a new spindle; good materials; and Bennet’s Boiled Potatoes.Compared to some, mine was a paltry Tour de…
199 The system
Knitting the slowest sock in the history of sock knitting. Tour de Fleece. The merits of taking small steps vaguely in the direction a goal. I’m thinking about style again, and looking for…
198 Picking up the threads
House projects have broken me; the summer of socks continues; the red that bled; Tour de Fleece; and a return to Clifford Byway. My new obsession for shorties led me to Zabava Socks. They fit very…
197 Gradual Stiffening
The weather. Men in shorts. The run down. Ta Da moments. And the moments just before a plan comes together.The Red Edge is complete!The chart for Red Edge was designed by Anna-Lisa Mannheimer…
196 A wide variety of displacement activities
In this episode: The party dress; picking up threads; a project round up; and the big idea, spoken aloud.The High School Art Teacher Dress by Vogue…
195 You can't keep everything
In this episode: Stash enhancement; hat boxes of joy; the rug of sorrow; knitting memory lane, letting it go. Repeat after me: It is okay to rest.Thank you, past Brenda, for setting up…
194 What I did last summer
In this episode: Undone by Cosmo/Cosmo undone; colour blocking that didn’t stitck; a summer romance; a bounty of beautiful sock yarn; packing projects for a journey with no end date; and the view…
193 The waiting phase
In this episode: I have more projects on the needles at one time than ever before, and I talk about all of them. Also, we're buying a cottage, and trying very hard to remain detached until the…
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