rosclarke

Do you have yarn in your stash that you just don’t know what to do with? Perhaps you’ve bought too much for a project and have leftover balls or skeins. Maybe you fell passionately in love with custard yellow a couple of years ago but now it just doesn’t do […]

New Year, New Stash

4 Jan, 2013 in All Blog posts / Swapping tagged Doctors Without Borders / stash / stashdown / swap / yarn by rosclarke

Have you heard about the current crisis in South Sudan? You may well not have done, because it’s hardly been mentioned on the mainstream media. MSF have been keeping their website up to date with what’s happening here. Thousands and thousands of people are stranded without access to shelter, food, […]

p/h2O

6 Jul, 2012 in All Blog posts / msf tagged crisis / msf / refugee / South Sudan / water by rosclarke

Blue skies, green grass, extremely fit men running around, and the agony of Andy Murray losing again. A bowl of strawberries and cream, and perhaps a glass of barley water or Pimms would be the ideal accompaniment to the perfect summer afternoon of knitting while watching the tennis. What better […]

Wimbledon Footlets

20 Jun, 2012 in All Blog posts / Patterns tagged footlets / knitting / msf / pattern / ravelympics / socks / South Sudan / tennies / Wimbledon by rosclarke

MCC Cosy — I am not a sports fan. I don’t watch football or rugby; I barely know what golf or Formula 1 are. The one day that I spent at a cricket match was possibly the most tedious of my life. Admittedly I do watch Wimbledon, where I like to keep a […]

Cricket Tea Cosy

18 Jul, 2011 in All Blog posts / Patterns tagged cricket tea cosy ros clarke lbw by rosclarke

I designed these socks in Cambridge and from the first I thought of them as ‘Cambridge socks’. The travelling cables remind me of the gentle meander of the river Cam around the backs of the colleges. My sample socks were knitted in a colour that is almost Cambridge blue (a […]

(Can)tab.

2 Jun, 2011 in All Blog posts / knitting / Patterns by rosclarke

For part i, see here. Something I have become increasingly aware of in the last few years is the huge variety of reasons why women choose to wear what they do. Looking beautiful or glamorous or stylish is not always the highest priority. Very often clothes need to be functional, […]

Clothes and Romance (ii)

5 Nov, 2010 in All Blog posts / Birthday Blogger by rosclarke