Can grappling with mistakes in your knitting help you to understand and cope with the more important ones you’ve made/are making in real life? Perhaps they can, if you allow those lessons to swarm up from your subconscious. From the first day you embark on a new skill, like knitting, playing an instrument, or riding...
Post
Colour Quandary
Since taking up the needles again just before Christmas, 2013, I’ve discovered a lot about myself and how I relate to colour. Choosing colour is a surprisingly emotional issue. When you’re about to commit to a knitting project, which will take many hours of work, choosing the “right” colour(s) becomes very important. I have been...
Post
My Knitting obsession
Hi, Knitters, and those of you are visiting because you’ve subscribed to the old Tranquil Garde! I hope you’ll stay! It’s been an interesting year or so of transition. I put this site on hiatus, partly because my commitment to gardening had become a little thin, but also out of frustration with my computer, which...