I’m back from my heady week of travelling – London and Manchester in the space of one week! It was an enjoyable and successful week. I spent a lot of time at Jam’s where we knitted, cooked and demonstrated our amazing lack of willpower. I may have spent mumblemumble on beads but you can’t prove anything!
I also returned home as a graduate with a conditional job offer to boot! Yes, my BSc (web content management, if you were wondering) is completely and totally done and in September, I start down the road to becoming a Librarian when I grow up, with a year in a very awesome London library before I do my Masters.
But far more important than that! While I was down at Casa Jam, she taught me how to knit socks!
I’m a big fan of circs and magic loop, so she taught me the invisible toe cast on from Knitty and off I went. It’s a toe-up in self-patterning yarn and I ♥ it. The actual sock is almost done now but my camera needs new batteries so it’ll have to wait. I’m all kinds of giddy! There’s one or two flaws but nothing that some darning won’t fix and all in all, it’s looking damn good for a first sock attempt.
Aside from socks, my copy of the Wee Wonderfuls 3-1 put together bear, bunny and kitty book arrived in the post while I was gone and I look forward to trying them out once my needle holder and shoulder bag are brought out of hiatus.
And on the beady side of things, there’s been two birthdays in my circle of family and friends and both of them enjoy earrings, so as part of the year of ‘crafty presents’, I made these.
The green and pearl set were a birthday present for my cousin Jen, who kindly put me up when I wasn’t lurking at Jam’s and the red and clear set went to my flatmate Becky, whose birthday we celebrated along side my graduation this weekend. Both went down a treat.
I have some more plans up my sleeve now, including my first necklace. :rubs hands:
