Karen's Craft Odyssey

Hello.  I, Frank Alpert, Karen’s husband, am going to do a “guest post” on my trip to Oslo, Norway.  This is not going to be a typical travel post.  Instead, I am going to focus on just a few things.  First, to set the scene, the main street of Oslo, Norway, called Karl Johans Gate.  [...]

Friday afternoon I got a phone call from Aleta.  Yes, that’s right, Aleta and Richard were calling from Dover, just down the road a bit.  Saturday I had planned to go over to Ashford for the Kent Spinners’ Open Day, so Aleta and I arranged to meet there.  Unfortunately, Frank had the camera, so Aleta [...]

Frank is in Oslo this week, so I’m on my own in Canterbury.  I’ve spent my evenings watching Inspector Morse on ITV (streaming on the web, we have no TV here), while knitting (and even spinning). Project 1 has been Quant (from Knitty.com) knitted in handspun:

And Project 2 has been spinning some of the wool [...]

Canterbury is a town with old buildings,

even older towers,

pretty streams,

and crowded streets.

We’ve found the shops and figured out how to use the bus system.  It’s about a half hour walk down to town (you could do it in twenty minutes if you wanted to walk quickly).  The bus costs £1.20 one way and £2 for [...]

Been here a week now, and have been slack about posting on the blog.
On our last full day in Leeds, I went to the local yarn store just north of the city (an easy bus ride), Baa Ram Ewe is in a restored old stone building on the High Street heading north from town.  It’s [...]