It’s beginning to look a lot like Dickens

by Sarah

Regular readers of this blog will know that I like to do a spot of knitting. At the beginning of the year I was asked by Interweave if I’d write patterns for some… Continue reading →

Crossed Swords and Crossed Lovers – Balzac’s ‘The Chouans’

by Sarah

If it wasn’t for some recent galavanting around Brittany, I can’t imagine a time that I’d have picked up The Chouans (1829) as the next ‘must read’ from my TBR. It’s not that I don’t rate… Continue reading →

What do Edgar Allan Poe, Parisian strollers and knitting have in common? Read on…

by Sarah

Last week the latest edition of Interweave’s Knitting Traditions magazine plopped through the letter box, and it had my article and knitting patterns in it – hoorah, fame at last! I wrote an article about… Continue reading →

Show Some Self-Respect: Happy birthday Will!

by Sarah

Today is Will Self’s birthday – Happy birthday Will! In celebration of this special day I’ve knitted a little Will Self wearing a Barbour jacket like the one he wore in ‘Walking To… Continue reading →