Fame at last!!!

Very exciting day yesterday - was on Graham Norton's Radio 2 show on the Tune with a Tale slot, discussing various aspects of barristering, and my Tune with a Tale choice, Up the Junction by Squeeze. Didn't get round to knitting...

It's at about 2.13http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/b01jxsfh

Billets Hart Allotment success

While I'm at it.. spent Saturday at lovely Hanwell Carnival, taking part in the parade with my allotment association & selling stuff on their stand for the rest of the day (including some of my jams & chuteys).

We won first prize in the carnival parade! And got our local MP Steve Pound to wear a carrot on his head...

I was also selling my Barbara welly toppers - you can find the pattern on Ravelry: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/barbara-welly-toppers---warmers

Curvy top update

Well, I've finished the first "bra sized knit" design & it's proving quite popular on Ravelry - 52 queues and counting!
You can find it at http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/montserrat

 

I've called it Montserrat - which is due to having gone to Barcelona for the weekend in the middle of designing it. I was going to call it Barcelona but decided there were too many Barcelonas on Ravelry - so picked the name of a curvy lady associated with the city...

What it will probably lead to is a Caribbean theme for these patterns.

Also, have finally heard from the new editors of Yarnwise & it looks like my gloves pattern WILL be printed - hurrah - more soon.

Finally, I think I will be on the Graham Norton radio show this Saturday 23rd - talking about Up the Junction for the Tune with a Tale slot... just hope I won't be boring!

Back in the photography business

Well, not the business, but able to photograph properly again!

I've finished the sample for my first "bra-sized" design, now named "Montserrat" (I'm planning a Caribbean theme for these patterns), and realised that unless I found the charger for my camera battery, which has been missing for several months, I might have a bit of trouble photographing it properly. So, the criminal justice system having decided it could live without my attendance today, I have been, as A-ha said, hunting high and low. Low turned out to be the right answer, as I found it under the bed, right in the middle. Have got absolutely no idea how it got there. So, should be some news on Montserrat very soon as once it's charged I can do the photos and finish the pattern. And I have no excuse now not to do the proper (non-knitting, professional) work I was intending to do today. Somehow, I am still managing to put that off though...

Not been doing too well with this blog, have I???

Recovered from my virus(vestibulitis, it turned out), went to Ecuador, went back to work... And didn't do much more blogging.

But! I am resolved to start again. My excitement at having a pattern accepted by a magazine went as flat as a dead pint on the last day of a beer festival in the height of summer, thanks to the great All Craft Media debacle, which has been amply covered on Ravelry and in numerous crafting blogs. However it seems that Knit magazine as was is rising from the ACM ashes like a glorious phoenix, now to be named Yarnwise, and fingers crossed my mitts pattern will be retained by the new editor and in the first issue. We shall see.

In the meantime, I've now published several free patterns on Ravelry http://www.ravelry.com/designers/miranda-jollie

Including some lovely grape/wine themed gloves in cosy Artesano Alpaca.

I have too many knitting projects on the go, both other people's designs and my own. Have discovered that I can easily get my bamboo sock needles through security at court, so am often to be found sitting around in my barrister's robes sock knitting.

I am planning a technique for designing garments that are sized in both back sizes and cup sizes. More to come on that...