I've put in some proper knitting time over the Christmas break and finished that pair of socks which I promised I'd get done before the end of the year. I'm pleased. The two yarns I've used co-ordinate well and, though there's an obvious demarkation between leg and foot, it doesn't look massively out of place.…
My main content for today is quite brief, so I'm going to start by going off on a tangent, then slowly make my way back. So, here's a thought. Though I know that music is very important and I like a nice tune, for me it has always the been lyrics which have drawn me…
I don't know about you, but I feel the year is just hitting its stride, so April feels like a bit of a new beginning. Then again, I've felt like that the first couple of days of every month this year and the feeling hasn't lasted. I've worked quite hard on my sleeveless cardi and…
I'm just coming to the end of a week off work and you'd have thought (well, I thought) that I would have quite a bit to show in the way of knitting progress, yet things haven't quite turned out that way. The little progress I have made has been on my sock where I am…
I think it would be interesting to see how January fared on the knitting front. It certainly saw an upturn in both productivity and interest in my knitting, and you can see above that something has actually made its way off my needles and jumped Cleopatra-style into a nice bath. I haven't been knitting much…
We've been enjoying a run of frosty mornings here in the East of England, and what better way to celebrate than to wear my recently-completed sparkly socks? I enjoyed working on these and they were a nice, speedy knit. The wool, West Yorkshire Spinners' Signature Sparkle 4-ply in the Silent Night shade, behaved perfectly with…
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