Catherine

Wilder Future pattern by Catherine Djimramadji Wilder Future is named after a campaign by the Wildlife Trusts in the UK, encouraging people to pay attention to the wildlife around them, to make space for nature and to campaign for greater protecti...

Thanks! It’s this one: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... (disclaimer, this is my own design).

A smiling, bespectacled middle-aged person wearing assorted knitwear is stood in front of a river. The jumper is knitted in a complex dark colour, not quite black, with many flecks through it like a starling. The yoke is geometric and with turquoise and red motifs outlined in white.

Finished knitting project 🧶: a colourwork yoke jumper in Icelandic Lettlopi yarn, finished at the end of February just in time for spring 😁 It’s already had an unexpected visit to the hospital as I had an encounter with some dirty metal yesterday that resulted in an urgent tetanus booster 😊

The answer to the Repair Cafe question 😀 No tardises (plural uncertain?) but several CD players and many, many items of clothing. And promises of bikes for our March session!

That would be challenging even for our skilled volunteers. But fun!

Collecting guesses as to what items will be brought into our Repair Cafe session tomorrow… What do you think?

It is! (Not mine, but I admired it too)

Next Repair Cafe- if you are local, need some help fixing something or would like to offer your skills, come along!

A skein of handspun yarn in shades of dark red, orange and teal.

First finished spinning project of the year, a wonderful blend of Welsh sheep breed wools and kid mohair. Every bit of spinning this fibre made me happy. 🧶

Close up of wool fibre dyed in shades of deep blue, green and red.

New spinning project. Creating sense and order out of a chaos of fluffy fibres. Also a great way to spend wet and wintery February days. 🧶

Wonderful! I was mostly there in an organising and overseeing capacity, but I did mend a ladder in a knitted throw- and was pleased with myself in matching the moss stitch pattern when pulling the stitches back up through the ladder 😁

Mending in action! Have you got a repair cafe near you? They are well worth visiting if you have something that needs mending. And wonderful to support if you have something that skills or even just some willingness to learn.

Silver Birch Mitts pattern by Catherine Djimramadji These fingerless mitts are designed to keep hands warm on adventures and to show off a special yarn. They came about when I bought a braid of beautiful fibre, hand-dyed in Wales on locally produced fi...

Of course! It’s Silver Birch Mitts, my own pattern, here: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Three pairs of handknitted fingerless mitts in a row on a wooden beam. All three have the same textured pattern, all three are made from my own handspun yarn. The middle pair is brand new, finished this week. The other two have seen several winters and much use already. But a spot of mending this week and they are all ready for more adventures.

Re-knitting. Both in the sense of re-making a pattern that works for me, my handspun yarn, my needs. But also, mending and re-working parts of knits that have already seen multiple winters and many adventures. An hour or so of giving them new thumbs and cuffs and they’re brand new again 😁🧶

The bright pink female hazel flower emerging from the bud where the nuts will be formed.

It’s female hazel flower time. So, so tiny, so, so pink.

One of my other hats 😁 If you are remotely local or remotely interested in repair cafes, please do follow our new BlueSky account. Next session is this coming Saturday.

A frosty scene looking up at dried grasses and a bare tree. The sky is bright and blue but you can tell it is a cold day.

Properly cold here. But the year has started off with boardgames and cheese, seeing an unexpectedly local eagle and finishing a long awaited knitting project. World stuff is weird, but on a personal level the year is being kind so far.

Was this a while ago? We missed it at Aughton again.

That’s awesome! Well done 👍

Thanks! If it hangs around I might try again.

A circle of besocked feet- two feet are wearing stripy socks in red and greys, two feet are clad in autumnal orange cables socks with dark blue toes, two are wearing dark blue socks with a patterned central panel and grey toes, and the final foot has an ankle sock with central lace panel and orange mohair ruffles around the ankle.

Christmas sock knitting was pretty successful- 7 out of 8 socks completed and all fit and are pleasing to the wearers 😃🧶

Tree silhouettes and flood waters and no white-tailed eagle to be seen.

Went looking for an eagle that has popped up in the area. Managed to miss it on two locations, once by minutes, once by seconds! The winter light was good though.

The collection started with generically seasonal images. But since then I’ve started adding a few more each year reflecting something or other of significance from the year. Last year I didn’t Viking and Scandinavian-inspired patterns as we’d just discovered my partner has Norwegian ancestry.

Bright green moss on fallen silver birch log.

A bespectacled, grey-haired person wearing much knitwear and half-hiding behind her mittened hand. She’s read silly things online this week wondering whether, as joint winner of a chess competition last millennium, she herself might be Chancellor material. Hiding in the woods with moss, fungi and knitwear is her response.

Purple slime moulds on fallen silver birch log.

Gatherings of mushrooms on fallen silver birch log.

Sights from the bog this morning, where the sun tried to shine on the mossy, muddy, mushroomy gloriousness. It’s been a funny few days, with an unwelcome approach from Daily Mail journalist trying to get me to talk about my chess-playing years with Rachel Reeves. This, though, was wonderful.

A line of knitted colourwork baubles hanging from a garland and fairy lights. The one in front is light grey with pictures of tiny rainbow socks knitted around the bauble.

This year’s addition to the line of knitted baubles 🧶 I picked socks for the colourwork to mark a surprise flurry of sock designs I’ve published this year. And also in honour of the pair my partner made me as his first knitting project 🥰

York Minster by night, with a branch of a London plane tree in the foreground.

At night, a metal model of York in the foreground, and the full-sized York Minster behind.

Gothic door and surrounding stonework.

Town by night. Worth venturing outside for, I think.

Where Bile Beans now is?! I wonder how many underlayers there are there.

Yarns and in progress knitting projects on a wool blanket.

A nearly finished stripy sock in greys and red.

The beginnings of a blue sock on the needles.

A ball of muted orange yarn on a blanket.

Lurgy-afflicted, so for the next couple of days there will be lots of sitting in bed and on the sofa, surrounded by one of more of these Christmas sock projects. I am nearly 1 out of 8 socks down. Wish me luck? 😊🧶

One hand wearing a textured knitted fingerless mitten.

Handknit mittens weather arrived suddenly today 🧶

A deeply worn stone wall.

Textures of an old stone wall.

A handful of autumnal leaves still on the tree. Most lie on the ground.

The last of the leaves.