Intl Nadine

Listen - Haptic&Hue Haptic & Hue creates podcasts looking at how textiles change our lives and work and how they change the course of history.

For any lover of textiles/ fibre arts, this podcast is wonderful! I've just binged-listened the first series whilst knitting today - fascinating tales from around the world and from throughout history to today. Available here: hapticandhue.com/listen/ or on Spotify.

#knitsky 🧶 #textiles

This is such an amazing find! Thanks

Seaglass by Wool & Pine

Seaglass cardigan

#winterbreak means lots of knitting 🧶 working slowly on the #Seaglass cardigan by wool & pine using #Malabrigo yarn. Some new some leftovers from other projects

🧶 #socks fishlip heels therapy during chaperoning #schooltrip

#sensemaking Demystifying mystery At the moment the Mystery genre is getting a lot of love from everyone from middle school to adult and a lot of great books are being released. Since we’re in a middle/high school library I w…

#mystery genre popular in your school too? I've tried to make a choice flow-chart & some posters suitable for #middleschool. intlnadine.org/2025/10/07/s... would love some feedback on how to improve it and any favourites in the genre I may have missed (and if anyone has the equivalent for YA?)

#sensemaking Demystifying mystery

At the moment the Mystery genre is getting a lot of love from everyone from middle school to adult and a lot of great books are being released. Since we're in a middle/high school library I wanted to showcase the mystery books that are not too spicy / intense. In…

Love Martin Storeys patterns and you’ve done an amazing job on it!

It absolutely is

I live in the desert so cowls not really part of my wardrobe!

🧶Finally finished these #socks! Fish lip heels own pattern created to practice stranded knitting with two hands!

Yay! I bought it yesterday and it’s great to now hear the backstory

#showmeyourknits 🧶#WIP one helical “boatswain” sweater by Ola Ogunlou in Malabrigo lace and 1.5 sleeves left on the “winter carnival” in Malabrigo Rios

Nonfiction plus time and emotion

The following slides are part of a presentation Katie Day and I made for the 2025 ISLE librarian conference in London. (Note: Although I am the one "publishing" or "blogging" this discussion the credit equally goes to Katie Day as this all originates in our many…

A reminder that I should get into story graph

#showmeyourknits 🧶
pattern: Drops Design Winter Carnival #sweater
yarn: #Malabrigo various shades

Sounds great - is it metric? Inches and yards drive me nuts!

Go abroad! UK or Australia/ Canada/New Zealand Depending what your interests are I love bookish podcasts and have “backlisted” as a favourite.

Bottom up Gjöf sweater by lopidesign.is knitted in Malabrigo yarn

塞翁失馬 The Lost Horse

I've just finished reading the really well written "The Many Meanings of Meilan" by Andrea Wang. Having spent 16 of the last 20 years in Hong Kong, Singapore and China it was a reminder of so much of my time there and the discoveries of the language, literature, poetry and…

Poetry Analysis

I'm busy trying to decide what to do with very old blogposts as I was an avid blogger from 2003 to 2011 before I became a librarian. I literally have 1000s of posts that I'm not sure what to do with, so I'm going to selectively add posts that have to do with literature, language,…

#showmeyourknits Helical sweater in Malabrigo Lace pattern is free from Ravelry “boatswain sweater by Ola Ogunlolu” simple clear instructions 🧶

PRU soul bonfire yarn from Stephen & Penelope Amsterdam

Sayuri Sweater using Koigu 100% Marino wool in grey tints

Sayuri Sweater using Koigu 100% Marino wool in grey tints

🚆 🧶 project - new socks with slip stitch.

One sleeve left to go! #showmeyourknits 🧶

What a great initiative! #soccer #women

Experimenting with double handed knitting in anticipation of fair isle pattern I’ve just bought - oh my years of knitting in anticipation certainly way make trying continental so hard! Especially purl & in particular to keep nice even tension. Any tips?