Heather's Market Bagg

This is another Knitty project.The pattern is French Market Bag by Polly Outhwaite. It is a felted bag knitted in the round. Apparently using techniques that are a preparation for sock knitting :) knitting in the round, joining, and grafting. It isn't as scary as it sounds, it's a really easy knit, and the felting process conceals any mistakes you make :) such as trying to wrestle with double pointed needles! I am now a devotee of the magic loop :D


The story of the Bagg is to be found here for Ravelers, I recommend signing up for non-Ravelers

Heather's Great Big Little Orange Bird

I decided this year to start knitting Christmas presents. Also I had just been given a lot of wool and wanted to try fulling or felting. My first attempt was a knitted bag based on the pattern A Little Bird Told Me ... by Mags Kandis which appeared in the Knitty webzine in 2008 (Knitty is an absolute trove of free patterns)

The bag turned out a trifle larger than intended because of a last minute change of mind about knitting needles, but I'm pleased with the results.
For any Ravelry members the whole sorry story is available here for any non-Ravelry members I suggest you sign up. It's a marvellous community of knitters, crocheters and weavers.

I want one!

Yesterday the Guardian ran an April Fool story playing on Gordon Brown's (our current prime minister) recent trouble when a political writer revealed that he has a temper.

The essence of the joke is a mock campaign poster by the Labour Party exploiting Gordon's new hard man image and threatening "posh boy" David Cameron (leader of the opposition, who is wealthy and went to the posh school Eton)

The joke grew arms and legs when people started amending the poster on Flickr in the manner of the MyDavidCameron site with the (real) Tory campaign posters

John Prescott who is something of a leading light on Twitter then challenged the Guardian to produce a real Step Outside Posh Boy T-shirt, which they did, and they're running a competition tomorrow to win one of 100 T-shirts.