Winter is coming...

Having shivered my way through the last two winters (including several months in 2009/10 without a functioning central heating system) I am now very enthusiastic about knitwear in general, and fingerless mittens in particular - I have been furiously knitting, and now have a nice selection which will be going into my Folksy shop www.fabrikant.folksy.com in the next few days.

I am learning to spin an have been experimenting with spinning stripy wool - when I get a bit more proficient, the idea is to handspin stripy yarn and then knit beautiful mittens from that! But maybe not till next winter...

Website design

An exciting day today, as the process of designing the new Fabrikant website begins in earnest. Sam of www.bluedaisyvi.co.uk has been talking me through the bewildering range of options available to me! Fortunately, he speaks English rather than computerspeak, which makes life easier. We both have quite a lot of work on at the moment, so it may be a little while before the site goes live, but hopefully early next year it should be up and running. Watch this space...